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leinad13
Advocate I
10 years ago

How to use Personal Gateway with Proxy

How can I use personal gateway behind a proxy? Where is the offical guidance? When i first looked at this about 6 months ago, I'm sure there was more 'official' guidance about which files need to ...
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Greg_Deckler
Community Champion
10 years ago

Update, I did find a GWProxy.exe.config file in ther Power BI Personal Gateway, 1.0, Configurator folder so I'm guessing that's what you might try. There are a couple different config files in the directory so it might be a different config file that you need to edit.

 

My guess is that it is/can be proxy aware but that there is no user interface for configuring it.

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leinad13
Advocate I
10 years ago

Many Thanks smoupre - I had come accross this config file before posting (several months ago) and attempted to add in the correct settings.

 

So far when i have been doing this, I have been rushing it - in anger. I will try again now i have some more time.

 

For anyone else who stumbles accross this post - this is the official documentation for the proxy config bit : https://msdn.microsoft.com/library/kd3cf2ex.aspx

 

I will post my finding as i go to...

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    leinad13
    Advocate I
    10 years ago

    So after spending another hour on this, I have given up again (I can't justify spending more time on it)

     

    I have attemped the following and nothing works :

     

    1. Switch from a PAC File in IE Proxy Setting to Auto Configure (WPAD)
    2. Changed the above mentioned config file, I tried numerous configurations and none of them worked.

     

    I am paying for a license, does anyone know how to get support from Microsoft? The website and forums are completely different sites, with seperate logins - which is a bit confusing....