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Guo
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7 months ago

Power BI Server access failed

Since the beginning of the week, there have been frequent failures in accessing the workspace. Last Friday, I waited for a while and was able to access it again. Today, this problem occurred ag...
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rohit1991
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7 months ago

Hii Guo 

 

This issue is usually caused by temporary service instability, authentication/session token expiry, or capacity-related throttling in Power BI Service, not a permanent server failure. Since access works again after some time, it indicates a transient backend or service refresh issue (e.g., maintenance or load balancing). The recommended approach is to check Service Health, refresh login/session, and monitor if the issue correlates with peak usage or tenant capacity limits.

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    Guo
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    7 months ago

    Indeed, waiting for a while and trying to refresh can indeed solve this problem, but my curiosity is whether the server has been very unstable recently. I thought I had not encountered this problem so frequently in my previous use