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    Power BI Ideas Admin on 20 Jun 2020 06:38:54

    Use Service Principal instead of full user accounts to authenticate and connect to power bi cmdlets while pulling activity logs.

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    b41c6eef be9a-4b93-8f4a-a4e8840fb255 on 06 Jul 2020 00:17:44

    RE: Service principal to pull Activity logs

    Agreed and this should have hundreds of votes! https://ideas.powerbi.com/forums/265200-power-bi-ideas/suggestions/39641572-need-service-principle-support-for-admin-api

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    b71ab2a1 7ebb-4bd3-98a4-c41919b23d88 on 06 Jul 2020 00:17:05

    RE: Service principal to pull Activity logs

    I would like to see this implemented so that I can implement Microsoft security best practices of using applications with a dedicated purpose only intended for one use of collecting the data.Today this runs under a personal account of an administrator that has access to significantly more than otherwise the scope of the developed solution to collect the activity logs should need.

    One possible alternative is to a dummy human account for this purpose, but this feel like it defeats the purpose that is intended to be solved by registering an App.