PowerBIModelNotFoundException when publishing Power BI report to Azure Power BI

[cszendesk]

We are using "MicrosoftPowerBIMgmt" module in our PowerShell scripts, specifically "New-PowerBIReport" cmdlt, to publish Power BI reports (.pbix) to Azure Power BI but getting this error message:

Bad Request (400): {"error":{"code":"PowerBIModelNotFoundException","pbi.error":{"code":"PowerBIModelNotFoundException","parameters":{},"details":[],"exceptionCulprit":1}}}

Steps to reproduce:

1. Download a Power BI report (.pbix) from one Azure Power BI workspace with the option to download "A copy of your report with a live connection to data online (.pbix)"
2. Use the following command to publish the report to another Azure Power BI workspace:

New-PowerBIReport -Path $pbixFilePath `
                  -Name $reportName `
                  -WorkspaceId $workspaceId `
                  -ConflictAction CreateOrOverwrite `
                  -ErrorAction SilentlyContinue

3. Get this error message:

Response         : Bad Request (400): {"error":{"code":"PowerBIModelNotFoundException","pbi.error":{"code":"PowerBIModelNotFoundException","parameters":{},"details":[],"exceptionCulprit":1}}}
PowerBIErrorInfo : PowerBIModelNotFoundException
RequestId        : 1e56***-****-****-****-*********
ResponseDate     : Fri, 09 May 2025 14:45:18 GMT
RequestMethod    : POST
RequestUri       : https://api.powerbi.com/v1.0/myorg/groups/***/imports?datasetDisplayName=REO&nameConflict=CreateOrOverwrite
Exception        : Microsoft.Rest.HttpOperationException: Operation returned an invalid status code 'BadRequest'
                      at Microsoft.PowerBI.Api.V2.Imports.<UploadFile>d__8.MoveNext()
                   --- End of stack trace from previous location where exception was thrown ---
                      at System.Runtime.ExceptionServices.ExceptionDispatchInfo.Throw()
                      at System.Runtime.CompilerServices.TaskAwaiter.HandleNonSuccessAndDebuggerNotification(Task task)
                      at Microsoft.PowerBI.Api.V2.Imports.<PostImportFileWithHttpMessage>d__7.MoveNext()
                   --- End of stack trace from previous location where exception was thrown ---
                      at System.Runtime.ExceptionServices.ExceptionDispatchInfo.Throw()
                      at System.Runtime.CompilerServices.TaskAwaiter.HandleNonSuccessAndDebuggerNotification(Task task)
                      at Microsoft.PowerBI.Api.V2.ImportsExtensions.PostImportWithFileInGroup(IImports operations, 
                   String groupId, Stream fileStream, String datasetDisplayName, String nameConflict, Nullable`1 
                   skipReport)
                      at Microsoft.PowerBI.Common.Api.Reports.ReportsClient.PostImportForWorkspace(Guid workspaceId, 
                   String datasetDisplayName, String filePath, ImportConflictHandlerModeEnum nameConflict)
                      at Microsoft.PowerBI.Common.Api.Reports.ReportsClient.PostReportForWorkspace(Guid workspaceId, 
                   String reportName, String filePath, ImportConflictHandlerModeEnum nameConflict, Int32 timeout)
                      at Microsoft.PowerBI.Commands.Reports.NewPowerBIReport.ExecuteCmdlet()
                      at Microsoft.PowerBI.Commands.Common.PowerBICmdlet.ProcessRecord()
InnerException   : False

We have a semantic model (dataset) already uploaded to the Azure Power BI workspace with correct relationships, so we expect to upload successfully our report with a live connection to data online (.pbix) without containing a semantic model (dataset) in the report file. This works properly when we publish the report using Power BI Desktop, but it doesn't work using "MicrosoftPowerBIMgmt" module.

Please provide any suggestions.

[slopezv2]

Hi team, I have a customer with the same error, and I see low activity in this repo. Are these cmdlets still supported? any recommendation about other cmdlets or mechanism to publish reports for CI CD?