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webportal
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Connect Power BI Desktop to .odc file

I have an .odc file that connects to a cube. It opens a pivot table.

 

It seems it's not possible to connect Power BI to this file directly as seen here, but how do I retrive the server name, database name, user id and password from this file?

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v-cherch-msft
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Hi @webportal

 

You may try to open it via Text or notepad and check the information in it.

 

Regards,

Cherie

Community Support Team _ Cherie Chen
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Hello @v-cherch-msft, thank you for your support.

 

I did just that, and created a new OLE DB connection using the string found in <odc:ConnectionString>

 

Then I got the error: 

 

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