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amiyadas
5 years agoNew Member
PowerBI report server installation error
Hi,
While reinstalling PowerBI May 2020 we are getting the below error in the event log. Can anybody help?
Product: Microsoft Power BI Report Server -- Something went wrong, please find details in setup logs.CallStack:
Unhandled Exception: System.Exception: XmlException - at System.Xml.XmlTextReaderImpl.Throw(Exception e)
at System.Xml.XmlTextReaderImpl.ParseDocumentContent()
at System.Xml.XmlLoader.Load(XmlDocument doc, XmlReader reader, Boolean preserveWhitespace)
at System.Xml.XmlDocument.Load(XmlReader reader)
at System.Xml.XmlDocument.Load(String filename)
at Microsoft.BIServer.Setup.MigrateSettingsStep.MigrateMachineKeyFromWebToRsConfig()
at SetupEngine.Install()
at SetupEngine.Execute()
at Microsoft.BIServer.Setup.Setup.Main(String cmdLine)
at Microsoft.BIServer.Setup.Setup.Main(String cmdLine)
Regards,
Amiya
- Anonymous5 years ago
Try uninstall the current version, and it is recommend to always use the newest 2021 Jan version.
Paul Zheng _ Community Support Team
2 Replies
- mrbonvivantAdvocate I
From the error it appears there is possibly a bad XML file somewhere. Is this a new install or an upgrade? I see you say "reinstall".
- AnonymousNot applicable
Try uninstall the current version, and it is recommend to always use the newest 2021 Jan version.
Paul Zheng _ Community Support Team