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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-premises data gateway\Spooler

 

I wish to change this location path to another SSD drive to speed up the Enterprise Gateway data refresh but could not find where. I tried to reinstall the Gateway to the SSD drive but the spooler location does not change.

 

Any advise?

 

Thanks.

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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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  • PowerDAX's avatar
    PowerDAX
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    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>

    • Anonymous's avatar
      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

      • Anonymous's avatar
        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.

    • Anonymous's avatar
      Anonymous
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      2 years ago

      Does this require to create new directory manually at new SSD locat

    • Anonymous's avatar
      Anonymous
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      7 years ago
      Thanks for the reply.

      But seriously, the spooler location should have been made configurable. Imagine this, most old setup would have their storage in HDD, but when SSD starts to get affordable or the data starts to grow larger, the spooler operation has to run in SSD to maximize its load potential.

      Will raise this to support team and hope they would consider this as important in their near future release.

      Thanks again