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Symptoms
Assume that you use Power View report that has any Bing Map in Microsoft SQL Server 2008 R2. When you open the report, you receive the following error at the top of the map:
Bing Error: Security Error
Cause
The issue occurs because there is a change in Bing Map back-end service that requires Power View to switch to use corresponding endpoints differently. Otherwise Map functionality in Power View will be broken.
Resolution
The issue was first fixed in the following cumulative update of SQL Server.
Cumulative Update 12 for SQL Server 2008 R2 SP2 /en-us/help/2938478
Each new cumulative update for SQL Server contains all the hotfixes and all the security fixes that were included with the previous cumulative update. Check out the latest cumulative updates for SQL Server:
Status
Microsoft has confirmed that this is a problem in the Microsoft products that are listed in the "Applies to" section.
