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Introduction to Microsoft CDM Folders V2 Connector

You can use Microsoft CDM Folders V2 Connector to read data from or write data to CDM folders on Microsoft Azure Data Lake Storage Gen2.

You can create a common data model folder within a file system in the ADLS Gen2 storage. A common data model folder contains data in the .csv file format and the associated metadata in the model.json and manifest.json file formats. You can read from CDM folders that contain metadata in the model.json or manifest.json formatand write to CDM folders that contain metadata in the manifest.json format.

You can use Microsoft CDM Folders V2 Connector to read from and write to CDM format files. When Microsoft CDM Folders V2 Connector writes to CDM format files, you can use a CDM Aware application that uses the latest CDM SDK to access the CDM format files.

You can use Microsoft CDM Folders V2 objects as sources and targets in mappings and mapping tasks.

You can switch mappings to advanced mode to include transformations and functions that enable advanced functionality.

For more information about the common data model, see the Microsoft documentation at the following website:

https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/common-data-model/