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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.
Wanted to add that there is a new issue we received a fix from MS from, looks fairly recent (starting Feb 13 2024). We were getting "certificate chain not trusted" errors on servers for Power BI Reports that previosuly worked no issue, no change anywhere.
Documented here, search "PBI_SQL_TRUSTED_SERVERS": https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/power-query/connectors/sql-server
Can confirm after 3 days of trial and error, adding this environment variable (PBI_SQL_TRUSTED_SERVERS) to "Environment variables for your account" with the problem server name did the trick. I did have to clear out the Connection data (File > Options and Settings > Data source settings - select DB and Clear Permissions). Then add the data source back.
Adding this to all the top Google hits to hopefully save others the pain.
@deanj20 Man, I want to thank you. You probably saved me hours of work, research and frustration!
This worked for me.
Source Community: Power Apps | Source Author Name: WalTig
Sometimes you have to search in another direction. I read a lot about loading service certificate and/or setting "TrustServerCertificate" to true.
However, in our case (and it sounds more cases are like this) from one day to another the user (and only "one user") was not able to connect to SQL Server from power BI anymore. Nothing had changed in our environment. Solving the issue by some certificate did not sound right.
Try this (it solved our issue): make sure the user has the latest version of Power BI Desktop installed.
In Sep 2023 the user was still working with version May 2023. Just installing the newest version of Power BI Desktop enabled him to connect to SQL data again.
Source Community: Power Apps | Source Author Name: anshuljn26
One of my team member is facing similar issue. However the problem here is, he cannot switch to Windows Authentication mode due to same not being provided to every one for data security. We had given him datareader credentials and it was working fine for him till last few days since he start recieving this error. So any help on this.
Source Community: Power Apps | Source Author Name: Springrollz
This worked for me- thank you!! Any idea as to why what caused it
This worked for me too.
For those who want more detailed instructions:
- Open your Power BI Desktop app
- Click 'File'
- Click 'Options and Settings'
- Click 'Data Source settings'
- Select the offending SQL server instance, from the list of data sources
- Click 'Edit permissions' button at base of prompt screen
- In this new prompt screen, under the 'Credentials' section, click the 'Edit' button to open a new prompt and select 'Windows'
- Select either 'Use my current credentials' or 'Use alternate crednetials' (up to you, I just used mine)
- Click' Save' button to close this prompt and return to the 'Edit Permissions' prompt screen.
- In here there is an 'Encrypt connections' option. If your server accepts encrypted connections this will need to be ticked, mine doesn't and so I left it blank.
- If you're not sure, don't worry. When you click 'Refresh All' a prompt will tell you if you need to be unencrypted and you can come back and untick this box.
Does anyone know why this works?
In my organisation, my windows account is used as my MS account, so it is the same thing, so why does the MS option not work. It used to work, and has done for over a year, and what is more the Power BI cloud service data model continued refreshing, using the MS account, fine, whilst the desktop one refused too. Spoke with head of IT and he is is equally flummoxed, saying that becuase we use our windows accounts as our orgnisational MS ones, they're the same thing and so there should be no issue...feels like a Power BI glitch to me!
Super!! This really worked for me. Thanks for the solution.
This worked! Thank you!!
This worked for me .
This worked for me! Thank you for the detailed instructions.
So, we're getting this error (similar to above) when connecting to the Azure Analysis Services Tabular Model, from Power BI Desktop...
A connection was successfully established with the server, but then an error occurred during the login process. (provider: SSL Provider, error: 0 - The certificate chain was issued by an authority that is not trusted.)\r\nStackTrace:\n at Microsoft.Data.ProviderBase.DbConnectionPool.TryGetConnection(DbConnection owningObject, UInt32 waitForMultipleObjectsTimeout, Boolean allowCreate, Boolean onlyOneCheckConnection, DbConnectionOptions userOptions, DbConnectionInternal& connection)\r\n at Microsoft.Data.ProviderBase.DbConnectionPool.TryGetConnection(DbConnection owningObject, TaskCompletionSource`1 retry, DbConnectionOptions userOptions, DbConnectionInternal& connection)\r\n at Microsoft.Data.ProviderBase.DbConnectionFactory
Where can one specify "Connection Properties" and choose "Trust server certificate" in Power BI Desktop?
Microsoft Support ticket guides us to that setting, like you can set in SSMS when Connecting to a SQL Server...
I am getting this certificate error while i am trying to connect to SQL OnPrem source. I tried to connect to the same soure through excel and it works but it getting error in PowerBBi.
Any help please!
@heoliv,
Make sure that the certificate used by the SQL Server is within the Trusted Root Certification Authorities store of the machine running the Power BI Desktop.
There are a similar thread and a blog for your reference.
http://community.powerbi.com/t5/Desktop/provider-SSL-provider-error-0-The-certificate-chain-was-issu...
https://powerbi.microsoft.com/en-us/blog/ssl-security-error-with-data-source/
Regards,
Lydia
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.
