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braddo81
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Helper II

On premise server refreshing excel document from sharepoint online

we have a PBI report built on prem

it has 2 excel spreadsheets as data sources from our sharepoint site -cloud

connections work ok from the client, but we are unable to do scheduled refresh

how to achieve this?

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d_gosbell
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Super User

Unfortunately you cannot do this. Sharepoint Online is documented here Power BI report data sources in Power BI Report Server - Power BI | Microsoft Learn as not supporting scheduled refresh. Your options are to either host your report on the Power BI service or use some other process to bring the files into a location that PBIRS can use for a scheduled refresh (such as a local network share)

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d_gosbell
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Super User

Unfortunately you cannot do this. Sharepoint Online is documented here Power BI report data sources in Power BI Report Server - Power BI | Microsoft Learn as not supporting scheduled refresh. Your options are to either host your report on the Power BI service or use some other process to bring the files into a location that PBIRS can use for a scheduled refresh (such as a local network share)

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