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Hi. I'm working through a Power BI tutorial which requires me to connect to Northwind OData feed.
The URL stated in the tutorial is http://services.odata.org/V3/Northwind/Northwind.svc/
However when I trying to connect to OData using this URL, I get the message
Unable to Connect
We encountered an error while trying to connect.
Details: "OData: Request failed: Unable to connect to the remote server"
I'd appreciate any suggestions.
Yes, that is exactly what I was doing. I got the cited error message for 3 days in a row. I re-tried it just now, and it works.
I'm in NZ (UTC + 12) - I wonder if I was running into a back-up window or something?
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