Neither Excel nor Power BI (nor probably any other solution) will connect to DataMiner if the SSL certificate of the appliance isn't trusted on your computer.

  1. A generally in your infrastructure trusted certificate is required

  2. Once the appliance uses your new certificate, open it in your web browser and export it to a .cer file. For Chrome, e.g.:


  3. Import the certificate into the trusted store of your computer. For me it always works best to put it into the 'Trusted Root Certificate Authorities' store.