PowerBI Gateway "Cloud Data Sources"

[JNevill]

We are considering checking the "Allow user's cloud data sources to refresh through this gateway cluster " checkbox for our PowerBI Enterprise Gateway. What does "Cloud data sources" mean though? Is this restricted to azure cloud (like our Company's sharepoint) or is this all external/internet?

[Greg_Deckler]

@JNevill  - I believe this is for any online data source.

From:

https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/power-bi/connect-data/refresh-data

If you enable the checkbox Allow user's cloud data sources to refresh through this gateway cluster in the gateway configuration, as in the screenshot above, Power BI can use the configuration that the user defined for the cloud source under Data source credentials in the dataset settings. This can help to lower the gateway configuration overhead. On the other hand, if you want to have greater control over the connections that your gateway establishes, you should not enable this checkbox. In this case, you must add an explicit data source definition for every cloud source that you want to support to your gateway. It is also possible to enable the checkbox and add explicit data source definitions for your cloud sources to a gateway. In this case, the gateway uses the data source definitions for all matching sources.

[JNevill]

That's a very strange name for the feature. I guess the internet is just "the cloud" now. 

[v-zhenbw-msft · Accepted solution]

Hi @JNevill ,

Cloud data source means that the data source is not local, like Web, SharePoint etc.

This feature under Gateway Cluster Setting is used when the dataset has both cloud data sources and local data sources.

Maybe you can refer the following documents. Hope them help.

https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/power-bi/connect-data/service-gateway-mashup-on-premises-cloud

https://powerbi.microsoft.com/en-us/blog/on-premises-data-gateway-february-update-is-now-available/

Best regards,

Community Support Team _ zhenbw

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