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Hi all,
I am unable to connect to any files through my PowerBi user (excel files). Both files that are placed in a onedrive folder, as well as local files on my desktop.. The following error code is shown when i try to do it:
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Does anybody know what to do with this error?
Any help is appreciated!
Best regards
/Rasmus
We also received the same message when trying to load the PPM Content Pack into PowerBI
We have exactly the same issue on our dahsboards today. Worked fine this morning, but now they dont.
Did you find a solution?
Hi @Rasmusrock,
Do you get the error when directly connecting to Excel on OneDrive from Power BI Service? If that is the case, could you please connect to Excel on OneDrive from Power BI Desktop following the instructions in this article and check if it is successful?
Thanks,
Lydia Zhang
i have the same problem. any solution?
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