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Personal gateway using wrong account
rklimes, your issue seems like that you already configured the Personal Gateway to login to that hotmail account. For one thing you should be note that, as this blog said:
After the personal gateway is installed, “C:\Program Files\Power BI Personal Gateway\version\Configurator\GWConfig.exe” is launched to configure the Power BI account and domain credential. Once you setup the gateway using a Power BI login account, you are not allowed to change the Power BI account, unless you uninstall the personal gateway and install again.
So, does this issue exist in a fresh newly installed Power BI Personal Gateway? If not, please uninstall it and then reinstall.
I had never had the gateway logged in with the hotmail account. When I initially set it up it was with my work account and it functioned correctly for about a month. I had then opened the gateway from the systray and receieved the 403 error. at this point i started troubleshooting and found in the log that it was using my hotmail account. I had tried reinstalling it multiple times already and it never prompts me to enter credentials.
I had also checked the GWConfig.exe.config file and the only thing that i could see in that file that might result in autologin was this.
<system.net>
<defaultProxy useDefaultCredentials="true" />
</system.net>
Itried setting "usedefaultcredentials" to false but still do not get prompted for credentials.