Power BI Actions

Power BI Actions is a Build and Release Task for Azure Pipelines. With this tasks you can automate specific tasks within Power BI.

The following tasks can be automated when using this extension:

• Upload / Import Power BI dashboard (pbix file).
• Create a Power BI workspace.
• Remove a Power BI workspace.
• Add a new Admin user to a Power BI workspace.
• Add a Service Principal to a Power BI workspace.
• Add a Group to a Power BI workspace.
• Update the connection of a Power BI report.
• Refresh a dataset.
• Update SQL Direct Query String
• Update Gateway

The following organization types are supported from version 5 and higher:

• Commercial (Public)
• Microsoft 365 Government Community Cloud (US)
• Microsoft 365 Government Community Cloud High (US)
• US Department of Defense
• Microsoft Cloud China
• Microsoft Cloud Germany

The task works with a "Power BI" service connection that needs to be configured within the "Service Connections" settings of the project. From version 5 there is one single service connections. In this service connection you can choose between "Username/Password" and "Service Principal" authentication.

Username/Password

For the service connection to work with a Username password combination you need to configure the following parameters:

• Username: The username of the user that will perform the actions. Make sure the account does not have Multi Factor authentication enabled.
• Password: The password of the user.

Note: The user must have a Power BI Pro license in order to perform the tasks.

Service Principal

To configure a Service Principal with PowerBI you will have to go through this guide:Service principal with Power BI

• ClientId: The client id of the Azure Active Directory application. This application should have the appropriate rights in order to use the Power BI Api.
• ClientSecret: The client secret of the application
• Tenant ID: The identifier of the Azure Active Directory tenant

Output

During the execution of the task different values will be placed inside variables:

• PowerBIActions.ReportId: The report Id of the uploaded report (only supported when uploading one report).
• PowerBIActions.WorkspaceId: The Id of the workspace.

Documentation

For the documentation check the wiki.

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