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Waldemar_Hachaj
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MS Access DB dataset refresh using enterprise gateway error

Hello,   I'm trying to connect to Access database file on network drive and have it refreshed automatically. In Power BI desctop it works wether using file, folder, access connector or ODBC connect...
  • Waldemar_Hachaj's avatar
    3 years ago

    After working with Microsoft support we arrived at following solutions:

    1. If you want to use ODBC to access Access DB file on server other than the one on which the gate is you have to give the account that is used to authenticate gateway access Admin level privileges. This is linked to the fact,  that it needs to modify registry HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\ODBC and when using a local account without admin rights it is unable to do so.

    2. Use access trough FOLDER (i.e. create gate to the folder in which the DB is kept) and after navigating to the file expand Data column. In my case this was not working initially, becouse we did not have all necessary drivers installed.