Connect Power BI to Microsoft Azure Blob container

[Anonymous]

Hi,

I have a file in an Azure Blob Container (https://XXXXXXXXX.blob.core.windows.net/excels).

How can I connect Power BI App to that source?

Thank you,

Tamir

[v-yuezhe-msft · Accepted solution]

@Anonymous,

You can use the Azure blob storage connector in Power BI Desktop to connect to the Excel file. For more details, please take a look at the following blog.

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Regards,
Lydia

[Anonymous]

@v-yuezhe-msft

Thank you for the reply.

I used the connector on the PBI Desktop and published the report to the App.

Do I understand correctly that there is no way to connect to the Azure Blob directly from the PBI App?

Regards,

Tamir

[v-yuezhe-msft]

@Anonymous,

Yes. It is not possible to directly connect to Azure blob storage in Power BI Service.

Regards,
Lydia