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Connect to Microsoft Fabric OneLake

Let's configure the Microsoft Fabric OneLake connection properties to connect to Microsoft Fabric OneLake.

Before you begin

Before you get started, you'll need to keep the workspace name, lakehouse path, client ID, client secret, and tenant ID details handy.
Check out Prerequisites to make sure that the setup is complete and all the prerequisites are in place before you configure a connection.

Connection details

The following table describes the basic connection properties:
Property
Description
Connection Name
Name of the connection.
Each connection name must be unique within the organization. Connection names can contain alphanumeric characters, spaces, and the following special characters: _ . + -,
Maximum length is 255 characters.
Description
Description of the connection. Maximum length is 4000 characters.
Use Secret Vault
Stores sensitive credentials for this connection in the secrets manager that is configured for your organization.
This property appears only if secrets manager is set up for your organization.
When you enable the secret vault in the connection, you can select which credentials that the Secure Agent retrieves from the secrets manager. If you don't enable this option, the credentials are stored in the repository or on a local Secure Agent, depending on how your organization is configured.
Note: If you’re using this connection to apply data access policies through pushdown or proxy services, you cannot use the Secret Vault configuration option.
For information about how to configure and use a secrets manager, see Secrets manager configuration.
Runtime Environment
The name of the runtime environment where you want to run the tasks.
Select a Secure Agent, Hosted Agent, or serverless runtime environment.
For more information about how to configure and use the runtime environments, see Runtime environments.
Workspace Name
Name of the workspace in Microsoft Fabric OneLake.
Workspace name cannot contain special characters or spaces.
Lakehouse Path
Path or name of the lakehouse present in the workspace.
You can specify the path in one of the following ways:
  • - root directory (/) to access the files in the workspace.
  • - lakehouse name/Files to access the files present in the lakehouse.
Authentication Type
Authentication type to access Microsoft Fabric OneLake.
Service Principal Authentication uses the client ID, client secret, and tenant ID to connect to Microsoft Fabric OneLake.
Client ID
The application ID or client ID of your application registered in the Azure Active Directory.
Client Secret
The client secret of your application registered in the Azure Active Directory.
Tenant ID
The ID of the Azure Active Directory instance in which you created the application.
Microsoft Fabric OneLake Endpoint
The type of Microsoft Fabric OneLake endpoint that you want to connect to.
Default is fabric.microsoft.com.