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Anonymous
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6 years ago

Power BI Desktop port changes everytime

Hi All,   We are trying to open port from a server (behind the firewall) to Power BI desktop installed on my local machine. I see that the port number is not static and changes for every pbi file. ...
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Anonymous
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6 years ago

Hi Maggie,

 

Thanks for your response. I know how to retrieve the port but my question was regarding the behavior of it. The ports are different for each PBI file opened in my PBI desktop so I wanted to know if there is a way to get a static port number for my local PBI desktop so we can open the connections from our server behind the firewall.

 

Thanks in advance

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v-juanli-msft
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6 years ago

Hi Anonymous 

Is this problem sloved? 
If it is sloved, could you kindly accept it as a solution to close this case?
If not, please let me know.
 
Best Regards
Maggie
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    ChrisPa
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    6 years ago

    Hi Maggie,

    The issue is not how to find the port but its random character. I have a similar issue when exporting data from the local instance of PBi Desktop to Excel. Every time i open the report, the port change then i have to get the new one then to re-establish my connexions into Excel in order to refresh the data.

    I can live with that but having the same port everytime would save some time...

    Is there a method to have the same port every time ?

    Thank you in advance,

    Best regards

    Chris