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Sharepoint excel refresh in Power BI Report server

Anonymous — Mon, 02 Nov 2020 10:23:56 GMT

HI I have an excel file is in my sharepoint site.

i can add it via web source and authentication i used is org account in Power BI desktop.

Schedule refresh works fine in Power BI service.

Where as same report schedule refresh is not working in Power BI Report server.

I have tried, anonymus, windows and basic authentication none of them are not working.

Power bi report server not supports sharepoint excel source for schedule refersh?

mwegener Pragati11

Re: Sharepoint excel refresh in Power BI Report server

Pragati11 — Mon, 02 Nov 2020 10:59:16 GMT

HI Anonymous ,

What kind of sharepoint connection is this? Is it sharepoint on-premises or sharepoint Online?

Sharepoint Online is not supported as a datasource in Power BI Report Server. Check the link below for supported datasources:

https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/power-bi/report-server/data-sources

Thanks,

Pragati

Re: Sharepoint excel refresh in Power BI Report server

Anonymous — Mon, 02 Nov 2020 12:55:05 GMT

Pragati11 it is a sharepoint excel and i am connecting to it as a web data source. it works fine in Power BI service. but i want that in PBIRS.

Re: Sharepoint excel refresh in Power BI Report server

Pragati11 — Mon, 02 Nov 2020 14:32:25 GMT

Hi Anonymous ,

I am not sure if you went through the list of datasource that are supported by PBRS.

In your scenario you are using Sharepoint Online which is clearly not supported by PBRS, therefore your data refresh is not working.

Thanks,

Pragati

Re: Sharepoint excel refresh in Power BI Report server

Anonymous — Tue, 03 Nov 2020 09:04:34 GMT

Pragati11 Hi Pragati,

though it is sharepoint source we can still get the excel file url and use it as a web connection in Power BI.

I have seen that it works fine.

Have you ever used such sources in PBIRS?

Re: Sharepoint excel refresh in Power BI Report server

Anonymous — Tue, 03 Nov 2020 09:12:13 GMT

As per Microsoft web source is allowed for schedule refresh.

and my source looks like below in PBIRS.

Pragati11

Re: Sharepoint excel refresh in Power BI Report server

Pragati11 — Tue, 03 Nov 2020 09:25:27 GMT

Hi Anonymous ,

Can you confirm if you are using sharepoint online or Web connection?

Based on your original question, you mentioned you are using Sharepoint online connection which is not supported in PBRS:

Thanksm

Pragati

Re: Sharepoint excel refresh in Power BI Report server

Anonymous — Tue, 03 Nov 2020 10:34:03 GMT

Hi Pragati, Pragati11
i am using a web connection as i showed above, i am pulling a excel data from sharepoint and using a web connection.

In power bi desktop it works with organization account authentication to fetch data,.

and when i publish the same report in PBIRS, we have only these 3 options, Anonymous, Basic and widnows authentication.

I tried all 3 but none of them are not allowing me to connect to the same web connection which i can in power bi desktop.

Kindly advise.

Re: Sharepoint excel refresh in Power BI Report server

cpapiccio — Thu, 16 Dec 2021 18:57:47 GMT

Does anyone have a solution for this? I have the same problem
Web connection to excel online-> works fine locally (can update and save)
When I try to autenticate in power bi report server, conection for automatically refresh is invalid.
Thank you!

Re: Sharepoint excel refresh in Power BI Report server

Anonymous — Mon, 24 Jan 2022 15:57:53 GMT

Pragati11 Pragati any update on this please?