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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...
Thanks Anonymous,, but I was more trying to understand how I can set this up appropriately to skip the requirement of needing my computer on.
I'm working with my IT department tomorrow to test putting a gateway on a server which is active 24/7 so hopefully that will do the trick.
Whereever the source data lives will need to be on a machine that is online at the time of the refresh. Computers that are off are unable to provide data access.
Simpliest solution is to make sure the data lives on a server rather than a workstation.