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Outlook .MSG as Data Source
Is there a data source option that will read an outlook MSG file? Rather than sending the data in a table as an Excel attachment, this system sends the table directly in the message body. I've playe...
Thanks all. VBA would be an option; connecting to the Exchange server is currently not an option here. Emails could be sent or forwarded to a SharePoint library configured with incoming email settings; this would allow the file to be used without additional configuration -- iff PBI could read MSG files.
You could use Microsoft Flow to save the attachments from the incoming emails to a folder or a SharePoint document library and pick up the files with Power BI Desktop from there.