Monday, April 14, 2014

Unable to refresh data for a data connection in the workbook - Fix

Unable to refresh data for a data connection in the workbook. Try again or contact your system administrator. The following connections failed to refresh: PowerPivot Data
Target application not found unable to refresh data powerpivot excel

You might have encountered this problem while opening the excel file in your powerpivot gallery

Resolution:

Verify the Claims to Windows Token Service running on your PowerPivot server

Verify the PowerPivot Unattended account is created in the Secure Store Application. If not run the powerpivot configuration tool to create the unattended account.

If you are not using Kerberos, We need to create manually the PowerPivot Unattended Account

 Go to Central Administration > Manage Service Application > Secure Store Service 

 Create New Secure Store Target Application with Target Application ID  as PowerPivotUnattendedAccount and Run PowerPivot configuration tool 

Restart all SQL Server Analysis Service

Restart SQL Browser Service

Restart IIS 


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