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Anonymous
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Data refresh fails in Desktop and Service

here's the error on Desktop: Unable to read data from the transport connection: An existing connection was forcibly closed by the remote host.

 

Error on service: 

ast refresh failed: Fri Mar 20 2020 00:19:10 GMT-0700 (Pacific Daylight Time)
There was an error when processing the data in the dataset.Hide details

Data source error:{"error":{"code":"ModelRefresh_ShortMessage_ProcessingError","pbi.error":{"code":"ModelRefresh_ShortMessage_ProcessingError","parameters":{},"details":[{"code":"Message","detail":{"type":1,"value":"Unable to read data from the transport connection: An existing connection was forcibly closed by the remote host."}}],"exceptionCulprit":1}}} Table: verbose.
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cld
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Same for me:

 

Coudn't publish to Power BI
Unable to write data to the transport connection:
An existing connection was forcibly closed by the remote host.

 

What changed or how to solve that? Any ideas?

v-yingjl
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Greg_Deckler
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What are you trying to connect to? Apparently they don't want you connecting to them.

 

You could check the Issues forum here:

https://community.powerbi.com/t5/Issues/idb-p/Issues

And if it is not there, then you could post it.

If you have Pro account you could try to open a support ticket. If you have a Pro account it is free. Go to https://support.powerbi.com. Scroll down and click "CREATE SUPPORT TICKET".



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