Hello,
My organization has built in pathways for connecting PowerBI to Access for our database. The issue is that I recently got a new computer with a snapdragon-Arm processor, and Access and PowerBI no longer are able to connect. After attempting just about every way under the sun to fix this, I feel like this is probably a bug microsoft needs to patch, but I'm really hoping that someone else who has had this issue might have a way to solve it. The exact error code I'm getting in powerbi is 0xC000026F. Excel power query can connect to access just fine, so it's not office itself, it's specifically power bi and it's capatability with the other office apps.
This is where chatgpt and I got to with determining the underlying issue:
- Power BI runs x64
- It runs inside a Windows ARM64 emulation layer
- It tries to load Access via Office Click-to-Run (ARM64 + App-V subsystem)
- That crosses into:
- ARM64 Office virtualization (AppvIsvSubsystems64_arm64x.dll)
- x64 Mashup container
- That bridge is what is crashing immediately
Excel works because:
- It uses a more direct Office-hosted path
- Not the same Mashup container sandbox Power BI uses
Anyone have the same issue?