How to register a service principle to Get Activity Events

[Azure_newbie]

I want to register an App (service principle) and run codes to call Power BI Rest API. 

In the documentation (Admin - Get Activity Events - REST API (Power BI Power BI REST APIs) | Microsoft Learn) , it said:

When running under service prinicipal authentication, an app must not have any admin-consent required premissions for Power BI set on it in the Azure portal.

I don't understand what it means. My registered app have "Tenant.ReadWrite.All" permission which is granted by Global Admin. The App is able to refresh dataset by calling API.  However the same App can only get 401 response for

/admin/activityevents. How should I setup the service principle properly?

[collinq · Accepted solution]

Hey @Azure_newbie ,

Here is an article on how to do it:

Register The Power BI Application In Azure AD - Power BI Embedded - Step By Step - Part Two (c-sharp...

Or, here is the Guy in a Cube video:

Create a Power BI app registration in 6 steps - Guy in a Cube

[Azure_newbie · Accepted solution]

" app must not have any admin-consent required premissions for Power BI " actually means you need to remove all permission disregard it is granted or not. Just remove all permission under "API permission".

[collinq · Accepted solution]

Hey @Azure_newbie ,

Here is an article on how to do it:

Register The Power BI Application In Azure AD - Power BI Embedded - Step By Step - Part Two (c-sharp...

Or, here is the Guy in a Cube video:

Create a Power BI app registration in 6 steps - Guy in a Cube