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ricardohummel
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Issue trying to connect a data source to gateway that works w/ Power BI Desktop

Hello,

 

I am trying to add a data source (a Microsoft SQL Server) to the Power BI Service.  The data source works fine w/ Power BI desktop, but when adding the data source on Power BI Service w/ the same details / credentials I get the below error.  It is the first datasource that I am trying to add to the gateway.  Does anyone have any ideas?

 

Thanks,

Ricardo

 

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Unable to connect: We encountered an error while trying to connect to . Details: "We could not register this data source for any gateway instances within this cluster. Please find more details below about specific errors for each gateway instance."Hide details

Activity ID:9a5f1474-689f-449d-a1cf-1946f019b24e
Request ID:85114dab-5fc9-6d1a-7916-b46453617f93
Cluster URI:https://wabi-west-europe-redirect.analysis.windows.net
Status code:400
Error Code:DMTS_PublishDatasourceToClusterErrorCode
Time:Wed Aug 15 2018 12:00:40 GMT+0700 (Indochina Time)
Version:13.0.6289.161
Textyle:Cannot connect to the server.
Underlying error code:-2146232060
Underlying error message:A network-related or instance-specific error occurred while establishing a connection to SQL Server. The server was not found or was not accessible. Verify that the instance name is correct and that SQL Server is configured to allow remote connections. (provider: SQL Network Interfaces, error: 25 - Connection string is not valid)
DM_ErrorDetailNameCode_UnderlyingHResult:-2146232060
DM_ErrorDetailNameCode_UnderlyingNativeErrorCode:87
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ricardohummel
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Note - this is solved.  The issue was that I had to put IP,PORT rather than IP:PORT as on Power BI Desktop.

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ricardohummel
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Note - this is solved.  The issue was that I had to put IP,PORT rather than IP:PORT as on Power BI Desktop.

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