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Map visual doesn't work
I tried it at work and there it seemed to work. We have a free Power BI account.
So back at home I tried to connect to the domain of my work over VPN and then the map visual also works at home.
Turns out that the laptop where it already worked before I was logged on with another account with a Power BI PRO license.
So it must have something to do with rights. Is that possible?
Best regards,
Hey carinevereecken ,
to some extent it's correct that you are saying "...to do with rights ...", but not in the sense that a PRO license can achieve less than a Free license.
Not sure, if you are saying: connected with a user, if this means connected to your laptop or inside Power BI Desktop.
If it's a work laptop, then it's most likely that policy rules are preventing the current windows user visiting certain domains (directly or indirectly) without using the VPN. The default map visuals are using some content from maps.bing.
If you are referring to the connection that Power BI establishes to the content, then things become more complex.
Using Fiddler to get the network trace (especially the HTTP requests) is also not that simple and requires some configuration, please refer to the fiddler documentation. Interesting things are HTTP requests that return a 4XX error code. This most likely means that access to the HTTP address is prohibited and is to enabled by your Firewall/Policy admins.
Hopefully, this provides some additional insights.
Regards,
Tom