Create a Power BI Service Principle Profile

Power Platform - General

The article discusses the process of creating a service principal profile for Power Automate to use the Power BI Rest API.
An app registration with the right permissions is needed to establish a trust relationship with the Microsoft identity platform.
The process involves navigating to Entra Admin Center, creating a new app registration, and adding owners to the registration.
API permissions, specifically Workspace.ReadWrite.All, need to be added to the App Registration for Power BI Rest API access.
A secret must be generated and copied for anyone using the app registration.
Important information includes the need to keep the secret value, Tenant ID, and Client ID secure.
Understanding App Extensions and Service Principals is useful for accessing not only Power BI Rest API but also the Microsoft Graph API.
The article hints at a future post on creating an Azure Key Vault to securely store values.

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