Additional troubleshooting option for Power BI Desktop version 2.100.1182.0 64-bit (December 2021): "Power BI Desktop infrastructure update"

Anonymous User · ‎01-20-2022

The following resources have been readily available for helping to address questions and concerns when using ArcGIS Maps for Power BI:

Frequently asked questions
- Resource providing context for what's included, some starter workflows, and geocoding limits
Clear browser local storage
- Workflows often used to resolve potential Power BI cache concerns

Since the Power BI Desktop version 2.100.1182.0 64-bit (December 2021), there is a new "Preview Features" setting which can be disabled to help address additional challenges in the short term. Some examples of what types of issues may be resolved are:

instances where clearing browser cache usually works
instances where geocoding used to work for a particular data field
some sign-in issues

For issues like these, you may want to consider the following workflow after reviewing relevant documentation for the parent product:

Official support article also available here thanks to @Anonymous User !
- https://support.esri.com/en/Technical-Article/000027070
In the Power BI Desktop app, navigate to: File> Options and settings > Options> [this opens the Options pane]
Then select "Preview Features"> and uncheck the option "Power BI Desktop infrastructure update"
Close all open report documents and then restart the Power BI Desktop application
Screenshot showing option "Power BI Desktop infrastructure update"

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Related resources to ArcGIS for Power BI:

Anonymous User · ‎01-24-2022

Good news is that the team was able to identify some changes with the Microsoft Power BI dev team about the Infrastructure preview, and we were able to push a change over the weekend that would enable this to work. So customers who have infrastructure preview on by default, should be able to see the layers now.