Enable Power BI Service Settings

After you have installed BI Genius, you need to ensure that it has been granted adequate permission in your Power BI tenant and given access to your Power BI workspaces.

Enable Power BI Tenant Admin Settings

1. Go to Tenant Settings in the Power BI Admin portal

2. For each permission in the list below, ensure that:

   1. It is Enabled.

   2. Apply to is set to: The entire organization or Specific security groups.

If a permission is Enabled for a subset of the organization, add the security group that contains your BI Genius app (this is the Service Principal name you provided on the Entra ID Application Registrations step of the installer). Once you have added the security group, select Apply.

Example of enabling a PBI Tenant setting for a subset of the organization

The permissions which must be enabled are:

• Allow XMLA endpoints and Analyze in Excel with on-premises semantic models

• Semantic model execute queries REST API

• Service principals can call Fabric public APIs

• Enhance admin APIs responses with detailed metadata

• Enhance admin APIs responses with DAX and mashup expressions

Connect Your Power BI Workspace

1. Log in to the Power BI service.

2. On the left menu, select Workspaces and then choose the Workspace you want BI Genius to access.

3. From the top menu, select Manage access.

4. Select Add people or groups.

5. Begin typing the name of your BI Genius app registration. (This is the name that you entered on the Entra ID Application Registrations page of the installer in the Name your Application field.) Look for an option that contains an AppID field and select it.

   
6. Select Admin or Member from the role dropdown.

   
7. Select Add.