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    Power BI direct connector to ADLS2 (Azure Data Lake Storage Gen2) thus Power BI directly connect to ADLS2 for reporting and Firewall slider

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    Bhavik Ahir on 05 Mar 2019 07:10:39

    currently Power BI does not have direct connection to ADLS2 and requires Power BI Dataflow to access the ADLS2 data which causing data redundancy and creating extra hop for the same data and can be directly consume form ADLS2. Power BI direct connection with ADLS2 is great addition for Advance Data Analytics and firewall slider Power BI which enable exclusive access Power BI similar to AAS (Azure Analysis Service) .

    Administrator on 18 Mar 2022 04:23:56

    We plan to add an ADLS Gen2 connector to Power BI later this year. Stay tuned!

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    Power BI Ideas Admin on 06 Jul 2020 00:10:09

    RE: Power BI direct connector to ADLS2 (Azure Data Lake Storage Gen2) thus Power BI directly connect to ADLS2 for reporting and Firewall slider

    https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/power-query/connectors/datalakestorage

    Analyze data in Azure Data Lake Storage Gen2 by using Power BIUse Power BI to analyze data stored in Azure Data Lake Storage Gen2docs.microsoft.com

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    Manoj Kumar G on 06 Jul 2020 00:09:32

    RE: Power BI direct connector to ADLS2 (Azure Data Lake Storage Gen2) thus Power BI directly connect to ADLS2 for reporting and Firewall slider

    Any expected release date for this feature?

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    Mrinal on 06 Jul 2020 00:06:55

    RE: Power BI direct connector to ADLS2 (Azure Data Lake Storage Gen2) thus Power BI directly connect to ADLS2 for reporting and Firewall slider

    Any update on this please, without using Dataflows? we are looking to connect power bi as like source azure blob/azure SQL database.

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    Power BI User on 06 Jul 2020 00:00:33

    RE: Power BI direct connector to ADLS2 (Azure Data Lake Storage Gen2) thus Power BI directly connect to ADLS2 for reporting and Firewall slider

    Any update on this please, without using Dataflows?

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    tonz on 05 Jul 2020 23:57:16

    RE: Power BI direct connector to ADLS2 (Azure Data Lake Storage Gen2) thus Power BI directly connect to ADLS2 for reporting and Firewall slider

    Now as this feature released (in Beta version). Does the step to use it different or same ?
    https://docs.microsoft.com/en-gb/power-bi/service-dataflows-connect-azure-data-lake-storage-gen2

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    Claus Thorning Madsen on 05 Jul 2020 23:53:06

    RE: Power BI direct connector to ADLS2 (Azure Data Lake Storage Gen2) thus Power BI directly connect to ADLS2 for reporting and Firewall slider

    Is there a timeline for when the connector is exprected to be released? And until then a wokaround?I'm currently in trying to connect a Dynamics 365 Finance & Operations Entity Store in a Data Lake - and using the Azure Blob Storage connector all the metadata from model.json cannot be used.

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    Kanad Chatterjee on 05 Jul 2020 23:51:22

    RE: Power BI direct connector to ADLS2 (Azure Data Lake Storage Gen2) thus Power BI directly connect to ADLS2 for reporting and Firewall slider

    My 2 cents here, to connect ADLS Gen2 to Power BI. Hope this helps someone struggling with this, the way I was for the last month :)

    1. ADLS Gen2 (with Hierarchical Namespace on) - You can slap a JSON schema on top of your file (has to be named Model.json) and then consume it in Power BI through Dataflows (would need to have Power BI Premium subscription as dataflows can only be defined in Premium workspaces). Here's a nice blog explaining this - https://blog.crossjoin.co.uk/2019/03/13/attaching-manually-created-common-data-model-folders-in-power-bi-dataflows/


    2. ADLS Gen2 (with Hierarchical Namespace off) - You can connect to this using the Azure Blob Storage connector for Power BI (will have to use the blob service endpoint, https://.blob.core.windows.net/). You can then import the file as a Binary (Power BI is able to auto-detect CSV, so will save you some headache there). And then do a proper schema definition etc. within Power BI. Only downside is, unlike through dataflows this wouldn't be shareable across reports.

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    Power BI User on 05 Jul 2020 23:50:38

    RE: Power BI direct connector to ADLS2 (Azure Data Lake Storage Gen2) thus Power BI directly connect to ADLS2 for reporting and Firewall slider

    This is related to the issue with the blob api's for the life of me not sure why it is not fixed yet.

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    saurin patel on 05 Jul 2020 23:48:12

    RE: Power BI direct connector to ADLS2 (Azure Data Lake Storage Gen2) thus Power BI directly connect to ADLS2 for reporting and Firewall slider

    Can MS pls expedite the release of this feature

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    Divya on 05 Jul 2020 23:44:36

    RE: Power BI direct connector to ADLS2 (Azure Data Lake Storage Gen2) thus Power BI directly connect to ADLS2 for reporting and Firewall slider

    This feature will help us as well as many organizations,.