Login to Power BI with Power shell throws error “System.Net.WebException: The remote name could not be resolved: 'localhost.fiddler'”

Question

When I'm trying to login to Power BI with Microsoft Power Shell ISE :

Login-PowerBI

from the Package: MicrosoftPowerBIMgmt , I'm getting the following error:

Failed to get ADAL token: Unhandled Exception: System.AggregateException: One or more errors occurred. ---> System.Net.Http.HttpRequestException: An error occurred while sending the request. ---> System.Net.WebException: The r emote name could not be resolved: 'localhost.fiddler' at System.Net.HttpWebRequest.EndGetResponse...

Answer 1

I had a similar problem with Visual Studio NuGet service .

When PowerShell tries to log in to Power BI account (when executing command Login-PowerBI ), it executes AzureADWindowsAuthenticator.exe , which looks for the configuration under:
MicrosoftPowerBIMgmt.Profile → version of power bi profile → lib → netstandard → WindowsAuthenticator directory.

The configuration file is called AzureADWindowsAuthenticator.exe.config .

To solve the problem edit the configuration file as Administrator and add the following under <configuration> section:

<system.net>
    <defaultProxy enabled="true" useDefaultCredentials="true">
        <proxy usesystemdefault="true" bypassonlocal="true" />
   </defaultProxy>
   <settings>
        <ipv6 enabled="true"/>
   </settings>
</system.net>

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The final result should be like this: