Power BI

Power BI service can only protect the Power BI content in the new workspace experience. (The personal workspace is the classic workspace, which is not supported.)

To use IBM® Storage Protect for Cloud Microsoft 365 to protect the Power BI data, you must configure an app profile for the Microsoft Delegated app.
Note: If you have been using a scan profile with service account authentication for Power Platform object types, the Auto discovery scan jobs and the IBM Storage Protect for Cloud jobs can continue using the service account authentication.
  • For the list of the required permissions added to the Delegated app for Power BI, refer to App Profile Authentication.
  • If you use service account authentication or the Delegated app to protect the Power BI data, the service account or the authentication user of the Delegated app must have a Power BI Pro license or a Premium Per User license and have the Fabric Administrator role (the former Power BI admin role).

Before you enable the Power BI service, ensure the Download reports feature in the tenant settings has been enabled. This feature was enabled by default.

Note the following for Power BI service.
  • If you use the service account authentication to protect Power BI data or use the Delegated app to scan Power BI workspaces in IBM Storage Protect for Cloud Microsoft 365, the Auto Discovery scan job will automatically add the service account or the authentication user of the Delegated app as the workspace admin.
  • Power BI service now can only protect the .pbix Power BI files that can be downloaded. For the limitations on downloading report from Power BI, refer to Limitations when downloading a report .pbix file.
  • Due to the API limitation, the backup job of Power BI can back up at most 200 workspaces per hour.

After your authentication method is ready, go to the Auto Discovery in IBM Storage Protect for Cloud interface to configure a scan profile for the Power BI workspaces that you want to protect in IBM Storage Protect for Cloud Microsoft 365. For details, refer to Auto Discovery for Microsoft 365.

Then, you can go to IBM Storage Protect for Cloud Microsoft 365 interface to enable the backup service after the Auto Discovery scan job completes.