Power BI Customers who installed the August or later versions of Power BI Desktop may encounter issues signing in to the Power BI service through the desktop application. As a workaround users can follow the steps in this guide " https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/power-bi/desktop-get-the-desktop#installing-power-bi-desktop-on-remote-machines " to extract the MSI from the downloadable package, uninstall existing package and re-install using the MSI executable. Power BI Engineers are looking into the issue and an ETA for a fix will be provided by end of week 11/01/2019.