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Access to dataflows automatic snapshots
I understand that Dataflows automatically create a snapshot in ADLS Gen2 each time they run.
Do I need a separate Azure license to access these snapshots?
**Edit**
If I do not need Azure license, how do I connect to all the snapshots that are created automatically?
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Hi michaelsh
You should not need a separate Azure license, but you need your own storage account and read/write permission. For more details, you can refer this blog Using Power Platform Dataflows to extract and process data from Business Central and this official document Configuring dataflow storage to use Azure Data Lake Gen2.
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Caiyun Zheng
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v-cazheng-msft Thanks!
I read the links you've send and it says that I NEED Azure Subscription.So I DO need a license (subscription) to Azure besides Power BI license?
Or do I miss something?
Thanks!Hi michaelsh
To get a Azure subscription, you must have an Azure account. An Azure account is simply an identity in Azure AD or in a directory that Azure AD trusts. If you don't belong to such an organization, you can always create a subscription by using your Microsoft Account, which is trusted by Azure AD. Your Power BI account is a organizational trusted account of Azure AD.
You can sign in to the Azure portal with a Power BI account possessing administrator permissions and you can Find your Azure subscription. If you can see the ‘Subscription name’ like the following. Then you can create Storage accounts with this Power BI account.
If you have any problem, please let us known.
Find your subscription with the admin account:
Create Storage account with this account
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I am sorry but this is not the solution.
I DO need to have a separate Azure License/Subscription as you can see from these posts.
If I just go to Azure portal without having a separate paid account - I cannot connect to the snapshots.
That was my question
Hey michaelsh ,
in general your admin can connect your organization’s Azure Data Lake Storage account to your Power BI tenant.
Then you can access the data from the dataflow that is saved in Azure Data Lake directly in the data lake.
See the following article for more details:
If you don't want to do that you can just use the data flow. The data will in the background be saved in data lake, but you don't have to deal with it and you also don't need a data lake license.
If you need any help please let me know.If I answered your question I would be happy if you could mark my post as a solution ✔️ and give it a thumbs up 👍Best regardsDenisBlog: WhatTheFact.biHey michaelsh ,
you load the data with a dataflow like you would load a regular Query in PowerQuery. The result is a table and physically it's stored in a data lake.
This table you can access in Power BI with data flow as a source. So if you load the data as snapshot with a load date or something similar, then you can query the data flow and select by MAX snapshot date. But that's up to you how you create that.
If you need any help please let me know.If I answered your question I would be happy if you could mark my post as a solution ✔️ and give it a thumbs up 👍Best regardsDenisBlog: WhatTheFact.bi
