Power BI Desktop - Unable to sign in - Invalid URI: The hostname could not be parsed

[dfrost]

Hi,

I'm new to Power BI having recently installed Power BI Desktop in order to evaluate it.

I'm encountering this issue when I try to sign in. Any thoughts on how to resolve this would be gratefully received.

Kind regards,

Dan

[Rafal-MCT]

As the account e.g. https://FooBar.visualstudio.com/DemoProject

please use only account name (not full address).

Account: FooBar

Team Project: DemoProject

[v-yulgu-msft]

Hi @dfrost,

In this scenario, it's not very clear to determine what caused the failure sign in. You can download a Fiddler to debug web applications by capturing network traffic between the Internet and test computers. 

Best regards,
Yuliana Gu

[dfrost]

Thanks Yuliana for your advise.

Interesting, if somewhat puzzling to me, with Fiddler up and running I can sign in via Power BI Desktop no problem. However, if I then try again, this time without Fiddler, I hit this issue again!

I don't encounter this problem at home using my own PC only at work (and so does a colleague of mine) so I suspect it's a configuration problem at this end, perhaps something to do with the proxy?

[v-yulgu-msft]

Hi @dfrost,

It looks like this is not an issue with PowerBI tool. Maybe there is some configuration problems in Windows or the proxy as you said. So, I would suggest you post this thread to the Windows forum to get more professional advice. Or you can sumbit this issue to Microsoft at this page: https://powerbi.microsoft.com/en-us/support/. Appreciate for your understanding. 

Thanks,
Yuliana Gu