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Dataflows always fail to refresh due to "internal error"
DataFlows recently stopped functioning for my account. I had a DataFlow that worked well for probably 6 months, but then suddenly stopped refreshing. Now I'm receiving errors for ever the simplest da...
- Hi there
I too had this issue that is why I published the blog post you put above.
That was the proposed short term solution from the Power BI team. They are working on a fix, which will hopefully be resolved soon.
The only other option for now, is to do it in Power BI desktop.
Thanks for responding GilbertQ! Yes, I do have Multi-Factor Authentication enabled for my Microsoft account.
Based on your feedback I did a bit more searching and found the following article that cites MFA as the issue and gives short term and long term solutions:
why-is-my-powerbi-dataflow-refresh-failing
It appears that MFA is causing issues with Data Flows for many. I won't be able to move to a non-MFA account for what I'm doing (the short term solution), but I may able able to convert my solution in PBI desktop and upload that dataset to the service. I will try that next, but would appreciate any other solutions that are known to work in the short term.
Thanks again!
GilbertQ
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Super UserHi there
I too had this issue that is why I published the blog post you put above.
That was the proposed short term solution from the Power BI team. They are working on a fix, which will hopefully be resolved soon.
The only other option for now, is to do it in Power BI desktop.
I too had this issue that is why I published the blog post you put above.
That was the proposed short term solution from the Power BI team. They are working on a fix, which will hopefully be resolved soon.
The only other option for now, is to do it in Power BI desktop.