Obtaining connection values for Microsoft Power BI

About this task

This topic provides instructions for obtaining the connection values for the Microsoft Power® BI connector.

To generate these values and connect to Microsoft Power BI, you need to register an application with the required permissions in Microsoft Azure, which will enable App Connect to integrate with Microsoft Power BI by using APIs and protocols.

To connect by using different authorization methods, you need to obtain client ID, client secret, access token, refresh token, and tenant ID for your registered app, and then configure permissions.
Note: These instructions assume that you are registering an application in Microsoft Azure for the first time.
Note: Choose the applicable steps for the connection values based on the authorization method you selected.

Procedure

  1. To register an application with Microsoft Azure, for use with App Connect:
    1. Log in to the Microsoft Azure portal, and then locate and click App registrations.
    2. If you have access to more than one tenant, switch to the tenant where you want to register the app by using the Directories + subscriptions filter in the banner and then click the Close icon (X) to return to the previous page.
    3. In the App registrations page, click New registration.
    4. In the Register an application page, specify a unique name for your app, select Accounts in any organizational directory (Any Azure AD directory - Multitenant) as the account type, and accept the default values for the remaining fields.
      registering an application
    5. Click Register. The Overview page for the application is displayed.
      Overview page for the registered application
    6. Make a note of the Application (client) ID value because you need to specify it as a connection value when creating the account in App Connect.
  2. To generate a client secret for your registered application:
    1. Next to Client credentials on the Overview page, click Add a certificate or secret. This displays the Certificates & secrets page.
    2. Click New client secret
    3. In the Add a client secret panel, specify a description for the secret (for example, App Connect secret) and then select an expiry period.
    4. Click Add. The generated client secret is displayed on the Certificates & secrets page.
    5. Generated client secret for the registered app
    6. Copy and store the client secret value because you need to specify it as a connection value when creating the account in App Connect.
      Note: The client secret value won't be shown again in full after you leave this page.
  3. Configure the permissions that App Connect needs.
    1. In the left pane, click API permissions and then click Add a permission > Power BI Service > Delegated permissions to add each of the following permissions in turn. You can search for and select a permission, and then click Add permissions.
      Permissions Description
      Dataflow.ReadWrite.All Make API calls that require read and write permissions on all
      Dataset.ReadWrite.All Read and write all datasets.
      Report.ReadWrite.All Make API calls that require read and write permissions on all reports.
      offline_access Maintain access to data you have given it access to.
      Tenant.Read.All View all content in tenant.
    2. If the status of any permission is shown as Not granted for myDomain, click Grant admin consent for myDomain, where myDomain is your domain name. Then click Yes to confirm. (This updates the status of all permissions to Granted for myDomain.)
      Required permissions for the registered app
  4. To find the Tenant ID, go to the Microsoft Azure portal login page, then Azure Active Directory > Properties.
  5. Click Copy to copy the Tenant ID, and save it somewhere safe.
    Locating the Tenant ID in Microsoft Azure

    For more information about Tenant ID, see How to find your Microsoft Entra tenant ID on the Microsoft Documentation page.

  6. Use an application such as IBM API Connect Test and Monitor or Postman to submit a POST request to generate an access token and a refresh token that will be used to interact with Microsoft Power BI on your behalf. Specify the following parameters:
    • Request URL: 
      https://login.microsoftonline.com/organizations/oauth2/v2.0/token
    • Content-Type: application/x-www-form-urlencoded
    • Request parameters:
      Key Value
      client_id Set this to the Application (client) ID value that was generated for your registered app.
      scope offline_access Dataflow.ReadWrite.All Dataset.ReadWrite.All Report.ReadWrite.All Tenant.Read.All
      grant_type password
      client_secret Set this to the client secret value that was generated under Certificates & secrets for your registered app.
      userName Set this to the username that was used to log in to the Azure portal.
      password Set this to the associated password for the username