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Service Principals API Access

Hi guys,

 

quick question:

 

I am allowing Service Principals to access PowerBI for managing and publishing my reports. I created an ADD security group and added this security group to Power BI.  According to the yellow marked text, the Service principals are getting access even to tenant-level features. This would result into enormous access to almost anything ? I know that afterwards I restrict the access based on the workspace (i.e. by applying the corresponding access rights) but on tenant level the service principals are still able to perform almost everything ? 

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v-gizhi-msft
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Hi,

 

According to your description, Service Principals also have many limitations:

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Reference:https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/power-bi/developer/embed-service-principal#considerations-and-limit... 

 

Best Regards,

Giotto Zhi

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