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User activities by Powershell

Hi All,   Is there a way to extract user activities more than 1 day by using Powershell.   Thanks in advance
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  • arvindsingh802's avatar
    arvindsingh802
    4 years ago

    #2. Authenticate to Power BI
    $PBIAdminUPN="userName"
    $PBIAdminPW="Password"

    $SecPasswd = ConvertTo-SecureString $PBIAdminPW -AsPlainText -Force
    $myCred = New-Object System.Management.Automation.PSCredential($PBIAdminUPN,$SecPasswd)

    Connect-PowerBIServiceAccount -Credential $myCred

    $AuditType = 'PowerBIAudit'

    $RetrieveDate = Get-Date
    $RetrieveDate = $RetrieveDate.AddDays(-2) #replace -2 with days you want to extract

    for($i = 0; $i -lt 1; $i++){ #repalce 1 with days you want
    $RetrieveDate = $RetrieveDate.AddDays(+1)
    $RetrieveYearStr = $RetrieveDate.ToString('yyyy')
    $RetrieveMonthStr = $RetrieveDate.ToString('MM')
    $RetrieveDayStr = $RetrieveDate.ToString('dd')

    $StartDT = $RetrieveYearStr + '-' + $RetrieveMonthStr + '-' + $RetrieveDayStr + 'T00:00:00.000'
    $EndDT = $RetrieveYearStr + '-' + $RetrieveMonthStr + '-' + $RetrieveDayStr + 'T23:59:59.999'

    $datestring = $RetrieveDate.ToString('yyyyMMdd')
    $ActivityLogsPath = ('D:\Audit\PowerBIAudit_' + $datestring + '.csv')

    #4. Export out current date activity log events to CSV file

    $ActivityLogs = Get-PowerBIActivityEvent -StartDateTime $StartDT -EndDateTime $EndDT | ConvertFrom-Json

    $ActivityLogSchema = $ActivityLogs | `
    Select-Object `
    Id,CreationTime,CreationTimeUTC,RecordType,Operation,OrganizationId,UserType,UserKey,Workload,UserId,ClientIP,UserAgent,Activity,ItemName,WorkSpaceName,DashboardName,DatasetName,ReportName,WorkspaceId,ObjectId,DashboardId,DatasetId,ReportId,OrgAppPermission,CapacityId,CapacityName,AppName,IsSuccess,ReportType,RequestId,ActivityId,AppReportId,DistributionMethod,ConsumptionMethod, `
    @{Name="RetrieveDate";Expression={$RetrieveDate}}

    $ActivityLogSchema | Export-Csv $ActivityLogsPath
    Write-Host ('Created file {0}' -f $ActivityLogsPath)
    }

    use this code, replace username and password with yours and days with your requirement

    Thanks to GilbertQ for initial code.

     

    If this post helps, then please consider Accept it as the solution, Appreciate your Kudos!

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Anonymous
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4 years ago

Thanks for the response, if you have loping code please send me otherwise is there any website I will find the code.

 

  • arvindsingh802's avatar
    arvindsingh802
    Community Champion
    4 years ago

    #2. Authenticate to Power BI
    $PBIAdminUPN="userName"
    $PBIAdminPW="Password"

    $SecPasswd = ConvertTo-SecureString $PBIAdminPW -AsPlainText -Force
    $myCred = New-Object System.Management.Automation.PSCredential($PBIAdminUPN,$SecPasswd)

    Connect-PowerBIServiceAccount -Credential $myCred

    $AuditType = 'PowerBIAudit'

    $RetrieveDate = Get-Date
    $RetrieveDate = $RetrieveDate.AddDays(-2) #replace -2 with days you want to extract

    for($i = 0; $i -lt 1; $i++){ #repalce 1 with days you want
    $RetrieveDate = $RetrieveDate.AddDays(+1)
    $RetrieveYearStr = $RetrieveDate.ToString('yyyy')
    $RetrieveMonthStr = $RetrieveDate.ToString('MM')
    $RetrieveDayStr = $RetrieveDate.ToString('dd')

    $StartDT = $RetrieveYearStr + '-' + $RetrieveMonthStr + '-' + $RetrieveDayStr + 'T00:00:00.000'
    $EndDT = $RetrieveYearStr + '-' + $RetrieveMonthStr + '-' + $RetrieveDayStr + 'T23:59:59.999'

    $datestring = $RetrieveDate.ToString('yyyyMMdd')
    $ActivityLogsPath = ('D:\Audit\PowerBIAudit_' + $datestring + '.csv')

    #4. Export out current date activity log events to CSV file

    $ActivityLogs = Get-PowerBIActivityEvent -StartDateTime $StartDT -EndDateTime $EndDT | ConvertFrom-Json

    $ActivityLogSchema = $ActivityLogs | `
    Select-Object `
    Id,CreationTime,CreationTimeUTC,RecordType,Operation,OrganizationId,UserType,UserKey,Workload,UserId,ClientIP,UserAgent,Activity,ItemName,WorkSpaceName,DashboardName,DatasetName,ReportName,WorkspaceId,ObjectId,DashboardId,DatasetId,ReportId,OrgAppPermission,CapacityId,CapacityName,AppName,IsSuccess,ReportType,RequestId,ActivityId,AppReportId,DistributionMethod,ConsumptionMethod, `
    @{Name="RetrieveDate";Expression={$RetrieveDate}}

    $ActivityLogSchema | Export-Csv $ActivityLogsPath
    Write-Host ('Created file {0}' -f $ActivityLogsPath)
    }

    use this code, replace username and password with yours and days with your requirement

    Thanks to GilbertQ for initial code.

     

    If this post helps, then please consider Accept it as the solution, Appreciate your Kudos!

    • Anonymous's avatar
      Anonymous
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      4 years ago

      Hi Arvindsingh,

      If i run the above powershell script i am getting individual csv files with PowerBIAudit_respective dates, but my requirement is instead of creating individual csv files, i want single csv file with combined csv files with name as PBI_Audit_Logs.

      Thanks in Advance

      • lbendlin's avatar
        lbendlin
        Super User
        4 years ago

        You can use Powershell to combine CSV files

        Remove-Item $Target
Get-Content "$Path\$file1" | Add-Content $Target
Get-Content "$Path\$file2" | Select -Skip 1 | Add-Content $Target
Get-Content "$Path\$file3" | Select -Skip 1 | Add-Content $Target

         

        etc.

    • Anonymous's avatar
      Anonymous
      Not applicable
      4 years ago

      Is there a way to call all objects instead of having to select specific ones?

       

      • lbendlin's avatar
        lbendlin
        Super User
        4 years ago

        no, but again you can loop through your list of objects, same as you loop through your list of days.