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Wolfiz
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4 years ago
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PowerBI Desktop (August 2022) - proxy popup ?

Hello,   As part of the upgrade of the powerbi desktop client on all our workstations (upgrade to August 2022 release), we have observed that some users receive an error message related to the prox...
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    Wolfiz
    3 years ago

    Finally we were able to identify and correct this error, which does not appear systematically on all workstations.

     

    The problem comes from a residual that remains from a previous installation and that conflicts with the new version of powerbi desktop.

     

    The tool integrated in Power BI Desktop in charge of the upgrade does not take into account some files already present in the user profile. To correct this problem you need to do a clean installation, meaning delete the folder C:\Users\userid\AppData\Local\Microsoft\Power BI Desktop

     

Wolfiz's avatar
Wolfiz
Frequent Visitor
3 years ago

Finally we were able to identify and correct this error, which does not appear systematically on all workstations.

 

The problem comes from a residual that remains from a previous installation and that conflicts with the new version of powerbi desktop.

 

The tool integrated in Power BI Desktop in charge of the upgrade does not take into account some files already present in the user profile. To correct this problem you need to do a clean installation, meaning delete the folder C:\Users\userid\AppData\Local\Microsoft\Power BI Desktop