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Anonymous
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7 years ago
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Change Enterprise Gateway Spooler folder location to different drive

Hi,   Is there any ways that I could change the default Spooler location for Enterprise Gateway? The default location after installation is at C:\Users\PBIEgwService\AppData\Local\Microsoft\On-prem...
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  • PowerDAX's avatar
    PowerDAX
    6 years ago

    FYI - if anyone comes across this, in the install director, this file:

    Microsoft.PowerBI.DataMovement.Pipeline.GatewayCore.dll.config

     

    has this setting configuration:

    <setting name="SpoolerDirectory" serializeAs="String">
    <value>%LOCALAPPDATA%\Microsoft\On-premises data gateway\Spooler</value>
    </setting>

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Anonymous
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6 years ago

Thanks man. It works and I managed to change the spooler location to my SSD drive.

 

Regards,

Max

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Anonymous
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6 years ago

Hi, Anonymous I am facing a similar issue as this what changes did you make that helped you out of this disk full error? Thanks a lot.

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    Anonymous
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    6 years ago

    Hi Anonymous ,

     

    Go to the installation folder of the On-premise Data Gateway. Look for the file Microsoft.PowerBI.DataMovement.Pipeline.GatewayCore.dll.config. Make a backup first, just in case.

     

    Edit this file in Notepad, look for this part:
    <setting name="SpoolerDirectory" serializeAs="String">
    <value>%LOCALAPPDATA%\Microsoft\On-premises data gateway\Spooler</value>
    </setting>

     

    Change the value to your preferred folder location. For example:
    <setting name="SpoolerDirectory" serializeAs="String">
    <value>G:\Program Files\On-premises data gateway\Spooler</value>
    </setting>

     

    Open the On-premise Gateway app, then restart the service for this change to take effect. 

     

    I made this change as I want the spooler process to be on a SSD drive. But this can also helps if you are running low on disk space in your current spooler drive. You may switch the spooler folder to a bigger disk drive.

     

    Hope this helps.

     

    Regards,
    Max

    • Lumberjack's avatar
      Lumberjack
      New Member
      4 years ago

      Hi,

      We are having an issue like this, in our case the disk keeps running out of space.
      Waht was the impact on your proces when chaning this setting? Also, is there a safe way/ automatic way to clean-up this folder?

       

       

    • rgupta25's avatar
      rgupta25
      Frequent Visitor
      2 years ago

      Hi Max,

      Thanks for the information on the SpoolerDirectory change in the config. So I made the change but don't see any files being generated in the new directory on the E drive, do certain accounts have to have rights to writing files to the drive?

       

      Thanks,

      Renu