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Hello ,
Can you please give me your experience with this sign-in error in Power BI Desktop ?
"An error occurred while contacting the service (the connection to the service was prematurely closed)"
Thanks a lot for your support .
Unsure if this will do it for you, but this checkbox in file-> settings has resolved login issues I've had in PBI desktop in the past:
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