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sachinjagtap
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Error while opening a powerBI report on powerBI server

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We couldn't connect to the Analysis Services server. Make sure you've entered the connection string correctly.:
Request ID: 504267dd-04b5-2102-faa9-9c285265bddd
Time: Mon Nov 21 2022 12:05:10 GMT+0530 (India Standard Time)
Service version: /powerbi/libs

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MajkF
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I suppose that Power BI Report Server and underlying SQL Server are on the same VM / server, so networking isn't an issue here.

Did you make any changes to default name of Power BI databases "ReportServer" and "ReportServerTempDB"?

From one of my troubleshootings, I was adviced by MS support engineers to modify config file to log more details. It might help you find more details in your logs as well:

C:\Program Files\Microsoft Power BI Report Server\PBIRS\ReportServer\bin\ReportingServicesService.exe.config

<system.diagnostics>
    <switches>
      <add name="DefaultTraceSwitch" value="4" />
    </switches>
  </system.diagnostics>
  <RStrace>
    <add name="FileName" value="ReportServerService_" />
    <add name="FileSizeLimitMb" value="32" />
    <add name="KeepFilesForDays" value="14" />
    <add name="Prefix" value="appdomain, tid, time" />
    <add name="TraceListeners" value="file" />
    <add name="TraceFileMode" value="unique" />
    <add name="HttpTraceFileName" value="ReportServerService_HTTP_" /> 
    <add name="HttpTraceSwitches" value="date,time, clientip,username,serverip,serverport,host,method,uristem,uriquery,protocolstatus,bytesreceived,timetaken,protocolversion,useragent,cookiereceived,cookiesent,referrer" /> 
    <add name="Components" value="all:4,http:4" /> 
  </RStrace>

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MajkF
Frequent Visitor

I suppose that Power BI Report Server and underlying SQL Server are on the same VM / server, so networking isn't an issue here.

Did you make any changes to default name of Power BI databases "ReportServer" and "ReportServerTempDB"?

From one of my troubleshootings, I was adviced by MS support engineers to modify config file to log more details. It might help you find more details in your logs as well:

C:\Program Files\Microsoft Power BI Report Server\PBIRS\ReportServer\bin\ReportingServicesService.exe.config

<system.diagnostics>
    <switches>
      <add name="DefaultTraceSwitch" value="4" />
    </switches>
  </system.diagnostics>
  <RStrace>
    <add name="FileName" value="ReportServerService_" />
    <add name="FileSizeLimitMb" value="32" />
    <add name="KeepFilesForDays" value="14" />
    <add name="Prefix" value="appdomain, tid, time" />
    <add name="TraceListeners" value="file" />
    <add name="TraceFileMode" value="unique" />
    <add name="HttpTraceFileName" value="ReportServerService_HTTP_" /> 
    <add name="HttpTraceSwitches" value="date,time, clientip,username,serverip,serverport,host,method,uristem,uriquery,protocolstatus,bytesreceived,timetaken,protocolversion,useragent,cookiereceived,cookiesent,referrer" /> 
    <add name="Components" value="all:4,http:4" /> 
  </RStrace>

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