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The Azure connections admin settings connect Azure services to Power BI. Using these settings, you can store your dataflows in your organization's Azure Data Lake Storage Gen2 (ADLS Gen2) account. You can review the benefits of this approach in Reasons to use the ADLS Gen 2 workspace or tenant connection.

The Azure connections admin settings have the following options:

  • Tenant-level storage - Use to store dataflows in your organizations tenant settings. This setting can be configured if you want a central Data Lake storage place, or as a default storage place in addition to workspace level storage.

  • Workspace-level storage permissions - Use to store dataflows in specific ADLS Gen 2 accounts, organized per workspace.

Access the Power BI admin portal settings

You have to be a global admin or Power BI service admin to access the Power BI admin portal. For more information about the Power BI service administrator role, see Understanding Power BI administrator roles. To get to the Power BI admin portal, follow these steps:

  1. Sign in to Power BI by using your admin account credentials.

  2. From the page header, select ... > Settings > Admin portal.

    Settings menu with admin portal selected.

Tenant-level storage

By default, data used with Power BI is stored in internal storage provided by Power BI. With the integration of dataflows and Azure Data Lake Storage Gen2 (ADLS Gen2), you can store your dataflows in your organization's Azure Data Lake Storage Gen2 account. Storing dataflows in Azure Data Lake allows you to access them using the Azure portal, Azure Storage Explorer, and Azure APIs. For more information, see Configuring dataflow storage to use Azure Data Lake Gen 2.

Workspace-level storage permissions

By default, workspace admins can't connect their own storage account. This feature lets Power BI administrators turn on a setting that allows workspace admins to connect their own storage account.

To activate this feature, go to Admin portal > Azure connections > Connect to Azure resources > Workspace-level storage permissions, and check the Allow workspace admins to connect their own storage account checkbox.

Screenshot of the Azure connections settings page showing the Allow workspace admins to connect their own Log Analytics workspace checkbox

Next steps

About the Admin portal

Configuring dataflow storage to use Azure Data Lake Gen 2