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b5lurker
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7 years ago
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Power BI Dataflow to Azure Data Lake Gen2 Setup

Excited to see all of the new Power BI Dataflow capabilities especially with using Azure Data Lake Gen2 as the storage location for those Dataflows.   But, I have been trying to get it setup using ...
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  • Michael7's avatar
    Michael7
    7 years ago

    Hi,
     
    There is a temporary issue with settings ACLs through Microsoft Azure Storage Explorer, until this is resolved, as a temporary mitigation you can try using this powershel script:https://setacls.blob.core.windows.net/scriptfolder/setacls.ps1
     
    In order to run the script, your global tenant admin needs to have "Storage Blob Data Contributor (Preview)" role on your storage account.
     
    Instructions on how to run this script:
        
    1. Login as global tenant administrator into Azure portal and open PowerShell (Cloud Shell) in your browser
    2. Choose Azure CLI 2.0 (type ‘az’)
    3. Upload the script (there is a button for it)
    4. Run the script. For example:  /home/admin/setacls -storageaccountname your_alds_gen2_storage_account_name

     

    The script will ask you to sign in, please follow the instructions.
     
    Thanks,
    Michael

     

     

    Hi,

     

    There is no more need in this workaround, please use ASE 1.6.2 which is availably for update and download.

     

    Thanks,

    Michael

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joshbrownwsna
Frequent Visitor
7 years ago
Hi Everyone,

Just FYI I ran into the same issue today. However I’ve got one small wrinkle. While I was not able to update the ACLs, I was able to get past the screen in Power BI. Now the service is linked I to my storage account, but does not appear to be writing files to the data lake. FYI.

Josh
bensack's avatar
bensack
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7 years ago

Hi Josh, 

 

 

The setup of the storage account must happen as documented - the ACLs are critical for the feature to work and the storage account should not be connected to Power BI without them. I recommend you do not try to use the feature until ACLs are set on the filesystem. 

 

The fix from Azure Storage Explorer should be available next week, but as mentioned above you can opt in for insider builds and get it sooner. 

 

Please let me know if you have questions or if you run into any trouble after setting the ACLs.

 

Thanks,

Ben