Steps overview: Integrate an Azure Data Lake Storage file system

Before you begin

If you want to use Microsoft Purview to ingest schemas and table, you need to register and scan your ADLS folders in Microsoft Purview. For more information, go to the Microsoft Purview documentation.
For an overview of the supported file types for scanning, go to the Microsoft Purview documentation.

Steps

# Step Description

1

Enable the ADLS synchronization via Edge and give the Edge site user the required permissions.

Allows the integration of an ADLS file system via Edge.

2 Create an ADLS connection to Edge. Creates a connection to Azure in your Edge site.
3 Add the ADLS synchronization capability to Edge. Adds the ADLS synchronization capability to the Azure Edge connection. The capability allows to retrieve data from the ADLS file system.
4 Register the ADLS file system. Creates the initial structure of a Storage Catalog domain and ADLS File System asset in the selected parent community.
5 Connect the ADLS file system asset to the Edge ADLS capability. Links the registered ADLS file system to the Edge capability.
6 Create crawlers. Creates crawlers that define the folders you want to synchronize.
7 Synchronize the ADLS file system.

You can manually synchronize the ADLS file system or you can add a synchronization schedule to automatically synchronize it.

As a result, the ADLS metadata is integrated.

Learn more

To learn about the ADLS integration and watch videos, follow our University course.