User activities by Powershell

[Nagendray]

Hi All,

Is there a way to extract user activities more than 1 day by using Powershell.

Thanks in advance

[lbendlin]

No.  But of course you can write your own looping code in Powershell

Track user activities in Power BI - Power BI | Microsoft Docs

[Nagendray]

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

[arvindsingh802 · Accepted solution]

#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]

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

[lbendlin]

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

[Nagendray]

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]

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.

[Nagendray]

If you dont mine can u send me the combined powershell script to extract audit logs for more than 24 hours. Thanks in advance.