Allowing a Service Principal to Scan PowerBI

PowerBI’s admin-level API’s are not enabled at the OAuth / Entra level, but need to be enabled in the PowerBI Admin Center before you can use M365Permissions to scan all your PowerBI resources for access.

  1. Go to the Entra portal and create a security group, e.g. ‘PowerBISPNAccess’
  2. Add your service principal to the new group (you can find it under Enterprise Applications):
  1. Go to the PowerBI portal and search for ‘service principals can access’ and configure as follows:
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