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Anonymous
4 years agoNot applicable
Sharepoint authentication error "We couldn't authenticate with the credentials provided"
Hi all, I have several reports using files from Sharepoint as a data source. I used to have Organizational account setup for authentication, which worked perfectly for a long time. All of a sudd...
- Anonymous4 years ago
Hi,
My issue was different from the one described in the post you link.
Appartently it was an issue with the Edge authentication prompt. I fixed the issue by changing my default browser to chrome and in Power BI go to Settings > Security > User my default webbrowser.
This fixed the issue.
kevin-ky
Advocate II
1 year agoI encountered this error today and the resolution was very unexpected. I found if the excel file name in the sharepoint library has a pound sign # in it, it will fail to import with this error. I removed the pound and this error cleared for me.