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bengisby
Helper I
8 years ago
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Excel Data refresh fails

Hello, I have an on premisis server setup. I want to schedule a refresh of excel data. When setting up the data connection I can't get a successful test connection. Error is "Log on failed. Ensure t...
Scheduled data refresh
  • Martin_H's avatar
    Martin_H
    8 years ago

    Edited:

    Hi,

     

    I also didn't understand which Windows user that one should use to connect to files on a network share (not local path) and got the same error message as bengisby. 

     

    After reading https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/power-bi/report-server/configure-scheduled-refresh I did however realise that I had missed to write the domain (is what it's called? I mean the equivalent of contoso\ on the link) and only the user name (john on the link). When I wrote both the domain and the user name it worked.

     

    Best regards

    Martin

     

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v-yulgu-msft
Microsoft Employee
8 years ago

Hi bengisby,

 

In this document, it mentions that

"If a File or Folder data source is used and the file path is a local path (e.g. C:\Users\user\Documents), then a refresh plan cannot be created. The path must be a path the report server can connect to like a network share. For example, \myshare\Documents."

 

Regards,

Yuliana Gu