Advance your Data & AI career with 50 days of live learning, dataviz contests, hands-on challenges, study groups & certifications and more!
Get registeredGet Fabric Certified for FREE during Fabric Data Days. Don't miss your chance! Request now
This is a generic publish failure while pushing a PBIR/Project (“definition.pbir”). It usually happens due to a transient service issue, an outdated Desktop build, or a PBIR project bug. Try these quick fixes in order:
Update Power BI Desktop to the latest build, then retry.
If you opened a Power BI Project (.pbip), export to a .pbix (File > Export > Power BI Desktop (.pbix)) and publish the PBIX instead. PBIR publish is flaky.
Publish to a different workspace (not “My workspace”) and make sure you’re Member/Contributor.
Sign out/in; clear cache (Options > Data Load > Clear cache) and clear credentials (Data source settings).
Try a different network or disable VPN/proxy; check status.powerbi.com for outages.
Remove special characters/very long paths from the report name or folder and retry.
Still failing? Turn on tracing (Options > Diagnostics), reproduce the publish, and share the latest trace with Support along with the Session ID shown in the dialog.
This is a generic publish failure while pushing a PBIR/Project (“definition.pbir”). It usually happens due to a transient service issue, an outdated Desktop build, or a PBIR project bug. Try these quick fixes in order:
Update Power BI Desktop to the latest build, then retry.
If you opened a Power BI Project (.pbip), export to a .pbix (File > Export > Power BI Desktop (.pbix)) and publish the PBIX instead. PBIR publish is flaky.
Publish to a different workspace (not “My workspace”) and make sure you’re Member/Contributor.
Sign out/in; clear cache (Options > Data Load > Clear cache) and clear credentials (Data source settings).
Try a different network or disable VPN/proxy; check status.powerbi.com for outages.
Remove special characters/very long paths from the report name or folder and retry.
Still failing? Turn on tracing (Options > Diagnostics), reproduce the publish, and share the latest trace with Support along with the Session ID shown in the dialog.
Clearing the cache solution worked thank you it was size issue
Advance your Data & AI career with 50 days of live learning, contests, hands-on challenges, study groups & certifications and more!
Check out the October 2025 Power BI update to learn about new features.