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When I try to connect to Azure Blob Storage thru PowerBI Desktop, after sometime I get following message,
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We encountered an error while trying to connect.
Details: "AzureBlobs failed to get the response: 'The underlying connection was closed: An unexpected error occurred on a send.'."
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What can be reason of above issue?
FYI- I'm able to connect to same Azure Blob Storage thru 'Azure Storage Explorer'.
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Hi @smfaizhaider,
I can connect azure blob storage and load the data, can you please share some detail content about your operations steps?
My test steps:
1. Copy the folder url from azure, then input it to power bi connect panel.
2. Copy the access key from azure and input to power bi
Regards,
Xiaoxin Sheng
Hi @smfaizhaider,
I can connect azure blob storage and load the data, can you please share some detail content about your operations steps?
My test steps:
1. Copy the folder url from azure, then input it to power bi connect panel.
2. Copy the access key from azure and input to power bi
Regards,
Xiaoxin Sheng
Hello @Anonymous
Thanks for the help, it seems after all it was network glitch...![]()
@smfaizhaider could you tell me what was the issue? I have a similar problem - I can connect with my blob from a PROD Server (Azure VM) using "Azure Storage Explorer" and I can successfully test the connection in SSIS using "Azure Storage Connection Manager", but I can not pull data from BLOB using "Azure Blob Download Task" - I have an error like "The underlying connection was closed: An unexpected error occurred on a send".
Can Anyone help?
When I try to connect to Azure Blob Storage thru PowerBI Desktop, after sometime I get following message,
---
We encountered an error while trying to connect.
Details: "AzureBlobs failed to get the response: 'The underlying connection was closed: An unexpected error occurred on a send.'."
---
What can be reason of above issue?
FYI- I'm able to connect to same Azure Blob Storage thru 'Azure Storage Explorer'.
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