Unable to Connect

Hi there,

I want to try Power BI Desktop with an On premise Microsoft SQL server

I first got a pipes issue, but then I used the configuration manager to enable pipes and now I get a mysterious

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Unable to Connect

We encountered an error while trying to connect

Details: ""

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which really doesn't say anything!

I've tried setting the "Select which level to apply these settings to:"

to server level as well as database level, I get the same error

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