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I have a dataset which uses the personal gateway to publish data. I have used it succesfully for more than 3 months.
Last succesfull data refresh was 29/3. When I tried to refresh the data 2/4 it says in the error message that the gateway is not online. Even though it is.
I have tried to uninstall and reinstall the data gaway (march 2018 version).
The gateway logs report an error, that I don't know what to do with (see below).
Any suggestions would be appreciated.
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GatewayPipelineErrorCode=DM_GWPipeline_Gateway_SignatureNotMatchCredentialError --->
Inner exception chain: System.FormatException
<pi>System.FormatException: InvalidCredentialFormat - Signature does not match
ved Microsoft.PowerBI.DataMovement.CommonUtilities.SymmetricKeyEncryptionHelper.Decrypt(SymmetricKeyEncryptedResultDataContract encryptedData, SymmetricKeyContractBase key)
ved Microsoft.PowerBI.DataMovement.Pipeline.GatewayDataAccess.CredentialUtils.DecryptSymmetricKey(SymmetricKeyEncryptedResultDataContract encryptedData, SymmetricKeyContractBase key)</pi>
--- End of inner exception stack trace ---
([0]Microsoft.PowerBI.DataMovement.Pipeline.Diagnostics.InvalidCredentialDueToSignatureNotMatchException.StackTrace:)
ved Microsoft.PowerBI.DataMovement.Pipeline.GatewayDataAccess.CredentialUtils.DecryptSymmetricKey(SymmetricKeyEncryptedResultDataContract encryptedData, SymmetricKeyContractBase key)
ved Microsoft.PowerBI.DataMovement.Pipeline.GatewayDataAccess.CredentialUtils.DecryptCredential(CredentialDetails credentialDetails, IGatewayCredentialStore credentialStore)
ved Microsoft.PowerBI.DataMovement.Pipeline.GatewayDataAccess.DbConnectionProviderBase.DecryptCredential(CredentialDetails credentialDetails)
ved Microsoft.PowerBI.DataMovement.Pipeline.GatewayDataAccess.MashupConnectionProviderBase.PrePrepareMashupCredential(DataSourceGatewayDetails datasource, String dataSourceKind)
ved Microsoft.PowerBI.DataMovement.Pipeline.GatewayDataAccess.MashupOleDbConnectionProvider.<PrepareMashupCredential>d__5.MoveNext()
@nhoff,
What is your data source? Currently, you will experience refresh failures getting a personal gateway error if you refresh cloud data source using web.page() function. You can check the notification in Power BI support site.
Regards,
Lydia
Hi Lydia
Thanks for responding. I am using a mix of:
a) on-premise SQL server,
b) xlxs and txt files on local sharepoint,
c) xlxs files on O365 OneDrive
I am not sure which of these qualifies as a cloud data source', but I guess the latter could be.
@nhoff,
Are you able to use on-premises gateway rather than personal gateway to refresh the dataset? You can follow the guide in the blog below to add data sources within gateway.
https://powerbi.microsoft.com/en-us/blog/on-premises-data-gateway-february-update-is-now-available/
Regards,
Lydia
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