PowerBI-visuals-tools: "pbiviz --install-cert" is broken on 1.11.0 in Windows 10

Hello!

In Windows 10, it looks like generateCert.ps1 in createCertFile (https://github.com/Microsoft/PowerBI-visuals-tools/blob/master/bin/pbiviz.js#L165) only generates a pfx file, but “–install-cert” is looking for a non-existent crt file.

I believe a potential fix is to change certPath to pfxPath https://github.com/Microsoft/PowerBI-visuals-tools/blob/master/bin/pbiviz.js#L208.

Error message:

PS C:\Users\ ... > pbiviz --install-cert
start : This command cannot be run due to the error: The system cannot find the file specified.
At line:1 char:1
+ start C:\Users\ ... \AppData\Roaming\npm\node_modules\powerbi-vi ...
+ ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
    + CategoryInfo          : InvalidOperation: (:) [Start-Process], InvalidOperationException
    + FullyQualifiedErrorId : InvalidOperationException,Microsoft.PowerShell.Commands.StartProcessCommand

 info   Certificate path: C:\Users\ ... \AppData\Roaming\npm\node_modules\powerbi-visuals-tools\certs\PowerBICustom
VisualTest_public.crt

Downgrading to 1.10.1 is my current workaround.

Thanks!

About this issue

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State: closed
Created 6 years ago
Comments: 17 (9 by maintainers)

Most upvoted comments

Windows 10 latest versions of all tools, still the same issue. just running pbiviz in powershell also shows the same error.

a10k on Oct 25, 2018

@mattdot @bitnovus Fix is coming https://github.com/Microsoft/PowerBI-visuals-tools/pull/167

zBritva on Mar 17, 2018

Same issue, downgraded to powerbi-visuals-tools@^1.10 to fix the issue and install the certificate in Windows 10.

greguz on Mar 19, 2018

C:\users<userid>\AppData\Roaming\npm should in PATH variables otheriwse pbiviz is not recognized by the system as a command…

Use below approach:

open command prompt: Start -> Run -> CMD
change directory to npm folder mentioned above
issue pbiviz --install-cert

you may chose to use Windows powershell, but I had hard time to take a note of the password generated for cert hence suggesting CMD prompt approach.

Or, you can prefix pbiviz with full qualifier all the time and it should just work fine as long as this file is in the above mentioned directory

Hope this helps.

srinivasbadepally on Jan 10, 2020