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Certificate Chain Not Trusted Error Effecting PowerBI Only
Thanks Lydia, I saw these threads but since the connection works in SQL Server Management Studio I thought it may be something else? If not how do I locate the Certificate Authority the database I am connecting to uses? Thanks for the insight.
heoliv,
You would need to contact SQL Server database administrator about that where he stores the SSL certificate. Then import the certificate to the client computer that installs Power BI Desktop following the guide in the KB below.
https://support.microsoft.com/en-sg/help/316898/how-to-enable-ssl-encryption-for-an-instance-of-sql-server-by-using-mi
Regards,
Lydia
This ended up being a fairly easy solution, in order to work around this issue I ended up just having to switch the connection type from MSFT account to Windows for any who encounter this issue in the future.
Holy hell!! I have a PBI-report that has been refreshing fine for 2+ years. It gets the occasional update in PowerBI Desktop and is republished. It just decided to not refresh this sql.datasource last week. Today I spent 3 hours on Google to finally find this solution.
Thank you for posting this! By now, this should be a suggestion in the connection error message.
My takeaway - If Microsoft can find a way to f**k up my day, they will! Otherwise they invent a new way!This was so helpful, thanks! I had to look up how to make this change so i wanted to share with others:
In Power BI Desktop:- Open: Power BI Desktop.
- Go to File > Options and Settings > Data Source Settings.
- Select: the specific data source (e.g., a SQL Server instance) from the list.
- Click Edit Permissions.
- Change: the Connection Type to Windows Authentication.
This worked for me too, thanks!
