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How to refresh a Power BI Dataset with PowerShell.
could you please help me the step by step details for the same.
Hi @Anonymous
Please refer to below articles for detailed guide.
https://insightsquest.com/2019/03/03/refresh-power-bi-datasets-with-powershell/
Regards,
Community Support Team _ Jing Zhang
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# Calls the Active Directory Authentication Library (ADAL) to authenticate against AAD
function GetAuthToken
{
if(-not (Get-Module AzureRm.Profile)) {
Import-Module AzureRm.Profile
}
$clientId = "*****"
$redirectUri = "urn:ietf:wg:oauth:2.0:oob"
$resourceAppIdURI = "https://analysis.windows.net/powerbi/api"
$authority = "https://login.microsoftonline.com/common/oauth2/authorize";
$authContext = New-Object "Microsoft.IdentityModel.Clients.ActiveDirectory.AuthenticationContext" -ArgumentList $authority
$authResult = $authContext.AcquireToken($resourceAppIdURI, $clientId, $redirectUri, "Auto")
return $authResult
}
# Get the auth token from AAD
$token = GetAuthToken
# Building Rest API header with authorization token
$authHeader = @{
'Content-Type'='application/json'
'Authorization'=$token.CreateAuthorizationHeader()
}
# Refresh the dataset
$groupsPath = "*****"
$datasetID = "*****"
$MailFailureNotify = @{"notifyOption"="MailOnFailure"}
$uri = "https://api.powerbi.com/v1.0/$groupsPath/datasets/$datasetID/refreshes"
Invoke-RestMethod -Uri $uri –Headers $authHeader –Method POST -Body $MailFailureNotify –Verbose
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