Solved: Refresh Error

Anonymous · ‎11-08-2019

User was trying to refresh a report and got this error,

Do I have a permissions issue for this user on SQL or is the workstation missing a Windows service? Or is this something else?

v-chuncz-msft · ‎11-11-2019

@Anonymous

You may take a look at the following post.

https://community.powerbi.com/t5/Desktop/Unable-to-connect-We-encountered-an-error-while-trying-to/m-p/818209#M393256

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v-chuncz-msft · ‎11-11-2019

@Anonymous

You may take a look at the following post.

https://community.powerbi.com/t5/Desktop/Unable-to-connect-We-encountered-an-error-while-trying-to/m-p/818209#M393256

Community Support Team _ Sam Zha
If this post helps, then please consider Accept it as the solution to help the other members find it more quickly.

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