Skip to main content
cancel
Showing results for 
Search instead for 
Did you mean: 

Register now to learn Fabric in free live sessions led by the best Microsoft experts. From Apr 16 to May 9, in English and Spanish.

Reply
abar33
Frequent Visitor

Sharepoint connection internal server error

Hi Community.

Please, can you help me with the next issue?

I'm working with a model that contains an excel file i share with collegues to update the info. The excel is sync on onedrive/sharepoint and i'm traying to connect to it from Power Bi desktop.

 

To connect to sharepoint FILE i use the URL. 

https://company-my.sharepoint.com/personal/my_person/

 

I checked that my organizations credentials are rigth, i´m logged into 365 from power BI.

It just keep showing me the next error: 

 

UNABLE TO CONNECT.

Details: "Web.Contents failed to get contents from 'https://MYCOMPANY-my.sharepoint.com/personal/MY_PERSON/_api/web/lists/getbyid('40ca0968-4afb-4b0e-b8...' (500): Internal Server Error"

 

I had looked into all solutions i could find on the internet about this issue with no luck so far.

Please, what can i do? i had tried several things. Got the latest Power BI desktop version thinking it migth be the cause ( in an early version i had no problem connecting once ).

 

Please help! 🙂

Kindest Regards.

Arturo 

 

1 ACCEPTED SOLUTION
v-yuezhe-msft
Employee
Employee

@abar33 ,

To connect to Excel stored in OneDrive for business, please get web url following the guide in this article.

To connect to SharePoint online Excel, please enter the following URL in web connector of Power BI Desktop.

https://XXX.sharepoint.com/sites/XXX/Shared%20%Documents/yourfolder/excelname.xlsx

To connect to sharepoint folder in Power BI Desktop, please get root url of your SharePoint site and enter the URL in SharePoint Folder connector, see https://powerbi.tips/2016/09/loading-excel-files-from-sharepoint/.

To connect to OneDrive for business folder, please check my reply in this similar thread.


Regards,

Lydia

Community Support Team _ Lydia Zhang
If this post helps, then please consider Accept it as the solution to help the other members find it more quickly.

View solution in original post

3 REPLIES 3
abar33
Frequent Visitor

Thank you v-yuezhe-msft Solved.

Best! 

Arturo.

 

v-yuezhe-msft
Employee
Employee

 
Community Support Team _ Lydia Zhang
If this post helps, then please consider Accept it as the solution to help the other members find it more quickly.
v-yuezhe-msft
Employee
Employee

@abar33 ,

To connect to Excel stored in OneDrive for business, please get web url following the guide in this article.

To connect to SharePoint online Excel, please enter the following URL in web connector of Power BI Desktop.

https://XXX.sharepoint.com/sites/XXX/Shared%20%Documents/yourfolder/excelname.xlsx

To connect to sharepoint folder in Power BI Desktop, please get root url of your SharePoint site and enter the URL in SharePoint Folder connector, see https://powerbi.tips/2016/09/loading-excel-files-from-sharepoint/.

To connect to OneDrive for business folder, please check my reply in this similar thread.


Regards,

Lydia

Community Support Team _ Lydia Zhang
If this post helps, then please consider Accept it as the solution to help the other members find it more quickly.

Helpful resources

Announcements
Microsoft Fabric Learn Together

Microsoft Fabric Learn Together

Covering the world! 9:00-10:30 AM Sydney, 4:00-5:30 PM CET (Paris/Berlin), 7:00-8:30 PM Mexico City

PBI_APRIL_CAROUSEL1

Power BI Monthly Update - April 2024

Check out the April 2024 Power BI update to learn about new features.

April Fabric Community Update

Fabric Community Update - April 2024

Find out what's new and trending in the Fabric Community.