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| PowerBI Account Setup | /connectors/dashboard/powerbi/powerbi-account-setup |
PowerBI Account Setup
Requirements
- PowerBi Pro license is required to access the APIs
Step 1: Create an Azure AD app and configure the PowerBI Admin consle
Please follow the steps mentioned here for setting up the Azure AD application service principle and configure PowerBI admin settings
Login to Power BI as Admin and from Tenant settings allow below permissions.
- Allow service principles to use Power BI APIs
- Allow service principals to use read-only Power BI admin APIs
- Enhance admin APIs responses with detailed metadata
Step 2: Provide necessary API permissions to the app
Go to the Azure Ad app registrations page, select your app and add the dashboard permissions to the app for PowerBI service and grant admin consent for the same:
Compulsory Permissions:
- Dashboard.Read.All
- Dashboard.ReadWrite.All
Optional Permissions: (Without granting these permissions, the dataset information cannot be retrieved and only the lineage processing will be excluded)
- Dataset.Read.All
- Dataset.ReadWrite.All
Make sure that in the API permissions section Tenant related permissions are not being given to the app Please refer here for detailed explanation
Step 3: Create New PowerBI workspace
The service principal only works with new workspaces. For reference