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lewand03
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9 years ago

SAP BW connectivity issue with a port number

Hi all,   I am trying to integrate our SAP BW system with Power BI. Fo test enviroment evrything is working fine, however when I am trying to make connection is fails. The difference is that for ...
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axip
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8 years ago

I am having the same problem so can't get to step one with this tool.  The port to initiate connection to the BW server is controlled by POWERBI.  I don't see how the configuration of the SAP server would have anything to do with it.  I find no way to change it in the tool, registry, or configuration files within POWERBI.

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    axip
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    8 years ago

    Although I changed nothing on my client, the BW connection began working a couple of days later when I tried again.  Some windows updates had been applied to my machine, but I suspect that the reboot that was performed had something to do with it starting working.  Our BW system must be using the default port used by the data source extract.