Saturday, April 14, 2018

Excel Services: Unable to refresh one or more data connections when using Excel 2016

Recently I used Microsoft Excel 2016 to publish a excel report to SharePoint, it gives following error when running the workbook. The workbook had a connection to BISM which is referring Analysis Services cube.

Error Message

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ULS error log

The workbook '' attempted to access external data using the unsupported provider 'Provider=MSOLAP.8;

Following is the data connection I had

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To resolve the issue, I had to add MSOLAP.8 to trusted data providers list.

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Finally restart IIS to see the change