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SiWill2017
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9 years ago
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Unable to Connect to SQL Server

 I keep getting the following error message when trying to connect to the companies SQL Server, does anyone have any idea of how to solve this?   "An error happened while reading data from the prov...
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    thaslett
    8 years ago

    Hello,

    I just wanted to add my experience to this. As the Network Manager, I was not comfortable allowing a user to run with admin credentials, so I wanted to find a way around this issue.

     

    I also did have to use Run As Admin to get the connection to work. I discovered that I only needed to do that to establish the connection, though. Once I did, the program could then be run without the Run As Admin option and it would work.

     

    Hope that helps someone.

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Anonymous
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5 years ago

This issue of “impersonation level” can be resolved by runing Power BI Desktop as administrator before accessing the report. After opening the report in Power BI Desktop being ran as an administrator, it may ask for the encrypion aletrt sometimes.

 

Start > Power BI > right click > select Run as Administrator

See more details:

https://natechamberlain.com/2019/02/12/power-bi-refresh-error-could-not-load-file-or-assembly-provided-impersonation-level-is-invalid/