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RGTTech
10 years agoRegular Visitor
Power BI Desktop not Launching
Hi guys, I have just dowloaded and installed the latest version of Power BI Desktop on Windows 7 Ultimate platform. When I click the Power BI Desktop icon to start the application a splash screen...
Anonymous
10 years agoNot applicable
blessedRGTTech Do you meet all the other minumum requirements based on this page? Specifically .NET 4.5?
RGTTech
10 years agoRegular Visitor
Yes, I am running .Net 4.5 - which I use to develop C#.Net applications on. I am also running MS SQL Server 2012 SP1. It seems the problem lies within "msmdsrvi.rll", I am wondering if it is possibly looking for MS SSAS OLAP services and requires a newer version of SQL Server? Although this is not documented as a recuirement, I am deducing this from the windows error log...
Thank you for the invitation - unfortunatly I am in SA!