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7 years ago

Create scheduled Refresh when data source is Excel from shared drive

Hi,  A very simple Report was created and published on our on-premise PBI Report server. The data source is an excel file, hosted on shared drive ( like \\XXX\yyyy\filename.xlsx). The report works f...
Refresh report Excel as data source
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luisrh
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7 years ago

the Power BI service account should have access to the directory where you stored the XLSX file.   More than likely that is your problem.   You should ensure that service account has at least Read access to that directory.

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7 years ago

Thansk you for answer!!

The excel file stored on my share drive that I have full access to.