Integrating with Microsoft 365. Differences between enabling authentication for Power-BI APIs.

[Fernando Gois]

Hello all. I am reviewing this documentation as our SAM team desires to track MS Office 365 subscriptions: Integrating with Microsoft 365 (servicenow.com)

In the document, it seems that enabling access to Power BI content service is "Optional", based on this statement: "......  if you need to enable your application to access Power BI service content and APIs."

Does anyone know what is the difference between enabling or not, the access to Power BI service content and APIs? If NOT enabling, would I just miss subscription information and utilization on Power BI software only? Would I still be able to pull software information on other Office 365 licenses? 

Thanks. 

[SrinivasRamanu1 · Accepted solution]

Hi 

Thanks for the question, you are right ServiceNow SAM Pro uses the Power BI API to pull in usage for Power BI. As you might be knowing that Power BI is an important component on M365 E5 plans, it helps to determine and provide recommendations to go from E5-> E5 in case there is low Power BI usage.

However, if you dont want the usage for Power BI thats alright just that the recommendations wont be generated however other products will not be affected.

Some more details here

https://www.servicenow.com/community/sam-blog/microsoft-365-or-o365-license-compliance-and-optimizat...

[Fernando Gois]

   Thank you Srinivas, for confirming my thoughts. 

   Thanks for the link you provided as well. Very helpful!

[Rohitstad]

I've been digging into the documentation too, and it looks like enabling access to Power BI content service is optional for broader application functionality. If you choose not to enable it, you might miss out on subscription info and utilization data specific to Power BI. However, pulling software information for other Office 365 licenses should still work seamlessly. By the way, have you considered exploring office 365 cloud backup europe options for added data security? Heard good things about it!