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Hi All,
I have an OLAP cube that due to some security restrictions is only available through an HTTP endpoint, (aka HTTP data pump). Before PowerBI we I've been using Excel as a thin client to create our reports and it worked fine, now with Power BI and all the good visualizations it has, we started using it... but using the HTTP endpoint we are only allowed to import data... when we select a connect live option, and we use the HTTP endpoint, e.g. "https://<Server Name>/OLAP/msmdpump.dll", we get always the error:
"We could not connect to the Analysis Services Server because the connection timed out or the server name is incorrect".
Am I missing something? Does it have a technical reason to don't allow the Connect Live Option?
Many Thanks, Luis
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Hi All,
After several hours following the HTTP configuration steps, reading the community posts and trying all the proposed solutions without success, creating, configuring and deleting several Azure VMs… I tried another approach to eliminating any Azure missing configuration. I created a VM locally running SQL SERVER 2016 SP1 dev edition and IIS 10, where I installed the HTTP data pump and Finally worked… I was able to connect Power BI Desktop to the Cube, getting all the metadata using the HTTP endpoint…
I believe the main issue was that our cube is running on SQL Server 2012.... and when using the Azure VMs with SQL Server 2016 SP1 to do my tests using the public IP address Power BI returned always the error shown in the previous post, maybe I miss some Azure configurations... (note if I'm in the Azure Machine and use the internal IP address the HTTP endpoint works)
Before you start using the Power BI Desktop connection live with the HTTP endpoint you need to add a Windows credential with the user and password required by the HTTP end point….
Please got to Control Panel > User Accounts > Credential Manager, and click “Add a Windows Credential”,
After I have the HTTP data pump working and create the first Report using Power BI Desktop Edition I tried to Publish it to the Power BI Service, but once is an Analysis Services on- premises... I needed to install the Power BI on-Premisses Gateway... to do that I added to the VM the AD Role... after promoting the VM to a domain controller and set the gateway configuration, everything worked fine... 🙂
the following image depicts all components together,
Now, the Power BI on-premisses Gateway working with the HTTP endpoint:
Finally, the dataset using the gateway always up to date,
Hope this information helps others with the same issue I had 😉
Cheers, Luis
Hi Luis,
I have the same issue as reported by @tannera. Do we have any update on this?
Thanks,
Hitesh
Hi All,
sorry only now reply, but I needed to refresh my mind and repeat the POC to have 100% sure that it works, so the conclusion is... it works!!!... (against what Microsoft told you ;)).... apart from all the information already posted, the only thing you need to do is enable the Windows Authentication of your OLAP web application on IIS, (maybe because SSAS only works with Windows Authentication ?????)
If you have created a new Windows Credential on your laptop with an Admin User of the SSAS Server that you want to connect via http endpoint,
You will be able to connect the Cube with an HTTP endpoint using the Connect live option:
Hope this helps, if you have other questions please let me know.
Cheers, Luis
Hi Luis,
Thanks for your prompt reply. I see that you have both Basic and Windows Authentication enabled on your virtual directory and perhaps that is what was missing from my set up.
I will give that a try and post back with my outcomes.
Thanks for your help so far.
Hitesh
Hi Luis,
So, yes I was able to confirm and get Power BI Desktop to connect to OLAP cube using HTTP, but it doesnt seem to work with HTTPS.
Are you aware of any such issues? Have you tried using HTTPS?
Thanks,
Hitesh
Hi Luis,
Actually, I did work for me when using HTTPS, I just didnt have the credentials stored for the right web server.
It is all working as we would expect it to work.
Thanks again.
Hitesh
Hi Guys,
Can you confirm that its working with Basic credentials from Another Domain ?
Is it mandatory to have local accounts ?
For now i can authenticate via Excel, but PBI Desktop do now want to work even with import.
thanks in advance,
Oleksiy
Thank you for your response.
I does work with windows authendication (Same domain) using NTLM.
What we are tyring to achive here is through ADFS login screen via External IDP.
Thanks
Kay
About year ago i opened a ticket with MS, and they confirmed that its not possible at that moment. They also said that this functionality is in roadmap, but i haven`t heard about it since then.
br
Oleksiy
Hi @LuisQuedas,
Based on my test in desktop version 2.45.4704.722, we can successfully connect to SSAS cube use HTTP data pump via Connect Live. Please try to update the desktop version to the same version.
Also from the error message, the issue can be caused by IIS server. Please check settings follow S-Driancourt's reply in this thread: Using HTTP data pump (msmdpump.dll) leads to (can't display visual) errors.
Best Regards,
Qiuyun Yu
Hi Qiuyun Yu,
Thanks for your reply, unfortunately it didn't work.. or I'm doing something wrong... 😞
My Power BI Version:
Following the suggested post, I made the following changes:
Application Pool changes:
INI changes:
After Restart the IIS... the error still appears... :S
Any Idea?
FYI... the Data pump is using basic authentication due to the SSAS is running on the cloud where we only have access to it by HTTPS.
Thanks, Luis
Hi Again,
few more tests...
I created two Azure VMs with SQL Server 2016 SP1 Dev Edition and with Power BI Desktop on both, (let's call them 2016SP1Server and 2016SP1Client), one of them I configured the HTTP Data Pump and restored an OLAP cube.
> I'm able to connect the cube from both machines using the HTTP Data pump and the import option...
> When I'm in the 2016SP1Server I can connect the cube using the HTTP data pump and the Connect live 🙂 .. the URL used :
When I'm in the 2016SP1Client I can't connect the cube using the HTTP data pump and the Connect live :(.. with the same error I got before:
Any suggestion?
Cheers, Luis
Hi All,
After several hours following the HTTP configuration steps, reading the community posts and trying all the proposed solutions without success, creating, configuring and deleting several Azure VMs… I tried another approach to eliminating any Azure missing configuration. I created a VM locally running SQL SERVER 2016 SP1 dev edition and IIS 10, where I installed the HTTP data pump and Finally worked… I was able to connect Power BI Desktop to the Cube, getting all the metadata using the HTTP endpoint…
I believe the main issue was that our cube is running on SQL Server 2012.... and when using the Azure VMs with SQL Server 2016 SP1 to do my tests using the public IP address Power BI returned always the error shown in the previous post, maybe I miss some Azure configurations... (note if I'm in the Azure Machine and use the internal IP address the HTTP endpoint works)
Before you start using the Power BI Desktop connection live with the HTTP endpoint you need to add a Windows credential with the user and password required by the HTTP end point….
Please got to Control Panel > User Accounts > Credential Manager, and click “Add a Windows Credential”,
After I have the HTTP data pump working and create the first Report using Power BI Desktop Edition I tried to Publish it to the Power BI Service, but once is an Analysis Services on- premises... I needed to install the Power BI on-Premisses Gateway... to do that I added to the VM the AD Role... after promoting the VM to a domain controller and set the gateway configuration, everything worked fine... 🙂
the following image depicts all components together,
Now, the Power BI on-premisses Gateway working with the HTTP endpoint:
Finally, the dataset using the gateway always up to date,
Hope this information helps others with the same issue I had 😉
Cheers, Luis
Hello Luis,
We are trying to use PowerBi with the datapump.
We want to use basic authentication but it doesn't work with the live connection.
Do you see and solve this issue ?
Hi Eric, sorry only reply this post now...
Are you connecting directly Power BI desktop to your source using the HTTP datapump? are you tyring to publish your reports on the Power BI Cloud Service?, would you like to provide me more information about what you are trying to do and your setup?
Thanks, Luis
Same issue here.
Hi tannera
Are you connecting directly Power BI desktop to your source using the HTTP datapump? are you tyring to publish your reports on the Power BI Cloud Service?, would you like to provide me more information about what you are trying to do and your setup?
I need to know more details 😉
Thanks, Luis
Hi Luis, thanks for getting in touch. I'm surprised you managed to make the live connection to a msdmpump.dll work because Microsoft responded to me, saying it is not supported in live connection.
At the moment we are just trying to live connect from PBI desktop to our datapump (SSAS cube). The pump is setup on one of our servers running SQL2016SP1CU4 and IIS 8.6. We currently get the problem shown in the below screenshot (Could not connect...).
'Import' option works. I think it works because of the addition authentification option compared to live connection mode (we use the 'Basic' username and password option). In Excel and Tableau, our setup works fine for live connection, but at least they prompt for username/password; PowerBI just rejects immediately.
I added the Windows credential, but no luck.
Any ideas? Does it have anything to do with HTTP/2 you think? (our web server only supports http/1.1)
Thanks a lot.
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