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seanpratt
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6 years ago

Updating .mez Query for Power BI

Good morning all! I've been working closely with a company who's BI lead is off on maternity leave and their entire model has collapsed into itself since she left. While going through their files, I...
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Anonymous
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6 years ago

Hey seanpratt - I know this is a bit late but in the future - .mez files are particular to the resource they are currently "on" unfortunately.

 

In this case, for the powerbi service to access that connector, you will have to place that in the PowerBI Desktop / Custom Connector folder on the host device of the PowerBI Gateway. A gateway has to be proxy for the PowerBI Service to use a connector like this.


Here's a pretty decent but slightly out of date walkthrough of putting the .mez file onto the Gateway and making sure it works with the on-premise gateway application:
https://community.powerbi.com/t5/Community-Blog/Custom-Data-Connector-How-to-Deploy-and-Test/ba-p/862678

 

I'll post my own once I update it with images.