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KCinMelbourne
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7 years ago

Clarity over Requirements for Refreshing Local Files

Hi all,    Looking for some answers on connecting to local or network files from Power BI Service.  Two part question really: Is there a difference in setting up local files (ie. to desktop or ba...
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v-yulgu-msft
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7 years ago

Hi KCinMelbourne,

 

There existing something different when configuring scheduled refresh for network files, please see this thread.

 

From this document, we can know that 

  • If data gateway is installed on a laptop, and your laptop is turned off, not connected to the internet, or asleep the gateway won’t work.

Best regards,

Yuliana Gu