I’ve been exploring Access/DataVerse recently for a client, it hasn’t been a fun process in the least, but I’ve already covered some of that in my prior postings:

Access - My First Venture Into Dataverse

I had a new client for whom I thought Dataverse might be a perfect solution to their need. So I set out to give it a whirl and see if Dataverse could do the job, see if the hype and demo I had been shown by Microsoft lived up to their ‘promise’. The proverbial ‘kick…

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Access – My First Venture Into Dataverse Part 2

So I’ve been playing around with Dataverse a little more today in a continuation of yesterday’s fiasco!  So if you haven’t already seen my previous post, best start by reviewing: Below are my preliminary observations and my impressions may change with time and experience, but as of today, this was my impression of things.

Today, I was trying to Access the tables through the Power Apps site and received the following error:

I knew I had used this URL previously, as I had saved it in a reference document to avoid needing to navigate the hell on earth that is Microsoft’s/Power Apps Admin Center.

I fired up one of my VMs in which I had previously done DataVerse work in, and low and behold, the URL worked just fine.  Yet, directly on my PC, the exact same link, using the exact same account gave this nice error.

The Solution

I thought I’d share what worked for me to get around this issue in the hopes of helping someone else out and save them the time and frustrations of figuring out what was wrong.

I won’t bore you with various things I tried, but the final solution that made things work again was to clear my browser’s history.  After that, I was able to access the URL just fine. This isn’t the first time I experience issues with Microsoft login with the sites. They obviously have some issue/bug with their cookie management… and the only remedy is to clear everything and start fresh.