Using PowerShell to add myself as an admin to an ex employees personal workspace

[David_Evans]

Hi,

In PowerShell using:

Add-PowerBIWorkspaceUser -Scope Organization -Id a12345bc-d123-1a23-a12b-ab012345cd6e -UserEmailAddress a.user@bcompany.com -AccessRight Admin

And getting the error :

warning: only preview workspaces are support when -scope organization is specified

What am I doing wrong?

Regards

David

[v-rzhou-msft · Accepted solution]

Hi @David_Evans ,

Compare your code and the offical sample code, I think your code is correct.

Add-PowerBIWorkspaceUser -Scope Organization -Id 23FCBDBD-A979-45D8-B1C8-6D21E0F4BE50 -UserEmailAddress john@contoso.com -AccessRight Admin

Please make sure what kind of workspace are you trying to add user by Power Shell.  According to your statement, you are trying to adding yourself to other user's Personal Workspace as an admin. Power BI doesn't support us to add other users in Personal Workspace.

Your workspace needs to be an app workspace: classic workspace or new workspace.

Then you can add users in Power BI Service manually or add users by Power Shell.

Here is an offical blog about how to add user in Classic Workspace or New Workspace by Power Shell.

For reference: Add-PowerBIWorkspaceUser

Best Regards,
Rico Zhou

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