Se encontró un error al intentar conectarse. Para completar esta acción, actualice a Power BI Pro

[abadill]

Estimados, Tengo problemas para conectar un archivo de excel a Power BI Desktop, el problema es con un archivo en particular de excel formato xlsx Me sale un mensaje que dice: Se encontró un error al intentar conectarse. Detalles: "Para completar esta acción, actualice a Power BI Pro."

Yo tengo actualizado el Power BI desktop en mi máquina y tambien tengo habilitada la licencia Power BI Pro. Este error solo me sale con un archivo de excel, cuando subo otros archivos no me da este problema. Quiero entender por qué sucede esto y que hacer para solucionarlo

Gracias

Andrea 

[v-rzhou-msft · Accepted solution]

Hi @abadill ,

As far as I know, normally Power BI Desktop does not require a Power BI Pro license for us to importing or connecting to Excel files.

The Power BI Pro license is primarily needed for sharing content and collaboration within the Power BI Service, not for the functionalities within Power BI Desktop itself.

Here I have some suggestions:

If you want to get data from Power BI semantic models in Excel, you must have a Fabric license: Fabric (free), Pro or Premium Per User (PPU).

Fabric free license users can only work with datasets in My workspace or a Power BI Premium capacity or Fabric F64 or greater capacity. 

For reference:

Connect Excel to Power BI semantic models - Power BI | Microsoft Learn

Connect to Excel file in Power BI:

Quickstart: Connect to data in Power BI Desktop - Power BI | Microsoft Learn

If this reply still couldn't help you solve your issue, please make sure whether there are some specific funtions in your file and please make sure the position of your excel file as lbendlin mentioned. (Online or local?)

Best Regards,
Rico Zhou

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[lbendlin]

Is this a .xls or .xlsb file? Where is it stored?