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Data_Mechanic
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Salesforce Lighting support?

Does anyone know what the plan is at Microsoft to support their Salesforce connectors since their IE11 based login won't be supported much longer? Or does anyone have an alternate way of pulling from the Salesforce API? 

 

Power Query Salesforce Reports connector. | Microsoft Docs

Extended Support for Accessing Lightning Experience Using Microsoft Internet Explorer 11 (salesforce...

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Data_Mechanic
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To answer my own question, after a whole lot of back and forth with Microsoft, they acknowledged that the connector requires an update and that they are now working on it. The rep told me that the plan would be to update it in Power BI to Edge Chromium sometime in the next two months. The rep however, was not able to provide any information on whether or when the change would be ported over to Power Query in Excel.

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Data_Mechanic
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To answer my own question, after a whole lot of back and forth with Microsoft, they acknowledged that the connector requires an update and that they are now working on it. The rep told me that the plan would be to update it in Power BI to Edge Chromium sometime in the next two months. The rep however, was not able to provide any information on whether or when the change would be ported over to Power Query in Excel.

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