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In Excel with a live connection to PowerBI Server, when updating the external data, a login screen always appears asking which account I want to log in with (without a password).
Can I get rid of it somehow? I didn't have it when I created the Excel.
Does anyone have a tip for me?
Thanks
Thanks for your replay
In both cases I am logged in with the user if I save the Excel to my one Drive account, the account query does not appear. I think there is a bug here, because this account query has only been appearing for 2 weeks
Greetings
Hey @GeriH ,
I don't think you can turn that off.
On the other hand you want to make sure the user is logged in, but as far as I know Microsoft are handling the security and you can't decide the timeframe you have to login again.
Sorry about that.
If you need any help please let me know.
If I answered your question I would be happy if you could mark my post as a solution ✔️ and give it a thumbs up 👍
Best regards
Denis
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