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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
    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

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

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rgupta25
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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