Visual Studio no longer connecting to Power BI Premium - visual-studio

I have a tabular model in VS that I set up per the instruction below and have successful deployed it to Power BI Premium multiple times. Yesterday I made some changes and tried to deploy but am getting an error: An error occurred while connecting to the server. When I deployed in the past it would open up the Microsoft Pick an Account window before proceeding with the deployment. That is no longer happening, which I assume is what is creating this connection issue.
I have restarted VS, restarted the server, recreated the connection configuration and changed my domain password, but all to no avail.
Anyone had this problem or have any ideas on how to get it to resume prompting me to chose my account to connect with?
Thank in advance.
Error message screenshot
https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/analysis-services/deployment/deploy-from-visual-studio-tabular
https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/power-bi/admin/service-premium-connect-tools#deploy-model-projects-from-visual-studio-ssdt

I figured it out. I restarted the server, then used a service account to log into the server and followed the below directions to delete my widows profile. Then when I tried to deploy it prompted me to choose which account to sign in with and deployed as expected.
https://www.isunshare.com/windows-10/tutorial-how-to-delete-user-profile-in-windows-10.html

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