Before you begin

Verify permissions

To extract metadata and to configure other capabilities that a catalog source might include, you need account access and permissions on the source system. The permissions required might vary depending on the capability.

Permissions to extract metadata

To extract metadata from a source system, you need account access and permissions to the Microsoft Azure Data Factory source system.

Verify that the administrator performs the following tasks:

•Creates a user account for the Informatica user to access the Microsoft Azure Data Factory source system.

•Assigns the Informatica user account to the Data Factory Contributor role.

•Grants permissions for the Data Factory Contributor role at the resource group level.

Permissions to run data classification

You can perform data classification with the permissions required to perform metadata extraction.

Permissions to run glossary association

You can perform glossary association with the permissions required to perform metadata extraction.

Get Microsoft Azure Data Factory source information

Before you configure the catalog source, ask the Microsoft Azure Data Factory administrator for property values that you need to configure the catalog source.

The following table describes the properties that you need:

Property	Description
Subscription ID	Required. Subscription ID of Microsoft Azure Data Factory.
Client ID	Required. Client or application ID of Microsoft Azure Data Factory.
Tenant ID	The URL of the Microsoft Azure Data Factory instances. Required when Microsoft Azure Data Factory uses Service Principal authentication. If the administrator gives you this information, use the Service Principal connection mode when you configure the connection information.
Client Secret	The client secret key to connect to Microsoft Azure Data Factory instances. Required when Microsoft Azure Data Factory uses Service Principal authentication. If the administrator gives you this information, use the Service Principal connection mode when you configure the connection information.
User name	Fully qualified user name to connect to Microsoft Azure Data Factory instances. Required when Microsoft Azure Data Factory allows user names and passwords for access. If the administrator gives you this information, use the Admin User connection mode when you configure the connection information.
Password	Password associated with the user name. Required when Microsoft Azure Data Factory allows user names and passwords for access. If the administrator gives you this information, use the Admin User connection mode when you configure the connection information.