My session for the European SharePoint, Office 365 and Azure Conference. Accessing on-prem content sources from Microsoft Flow, PowerApps, PowerBI and Azure Logic Apps

1. THE MICROSOFT ON-PREMISES
DATA GATEWAY
MAARTEN EEKELS
CTO PORTIVA & MICROSOFT MVP, NETHERLANDS

2. ABOUT ME
20+ yrs in IT, 13 yrs in SharePoint
CTO Portiva
DIWUG board member
Speaker, vlogger
Contact
meekels@portiva.nl
www.eekels.net

3. AGENDA
• Installation
• Architecture
• Flow & PowerApps
• Azure Logic Apps
• PowerBI
• Troubleshooting

4. INSTALLATION TYPE
• Recommended vs
personal mode
• You can run one
gateway in each
mode per computer
• This dialog shows in
PowerBI installer only

6. INSTALLATION - POWERBI

7. INSTALLATION - POWERBI

8. INSTALLATION – AZURE LOGIC APPS

9. ARCHITECTURE
Files, SharePointSQL Server
SQL Server
Analysis Services
Other
data sources
Cloud services PowerApps Microsoft FlowPower BI
Azure Service Bus
Application Gateway
Data source connection credentials can only be
decrypted by the gateway
Gateway Cloud Service
Data source connection credentials are encrypted
Azure
Logic Apps
Azure
Analysis Services
Data Movement
Service
Scheduler
Service
On-premises data
sources

10. DEMO

11. TROUBLESHOOTING THE GATEWAY
• Don’t install on a domain controller!
• Enterprise gateway service logs:
C:UsersPBIEgwServiceAppDataLocal
Microsofton-premises data gateway
Gateway*.log
• Test-NetConnection -ComputerName
watchdog.servicebus.windows.net -Port 9350
• Check firewall settings: TCP 443 (default), 5671, 5672,
9350 thru 9354, and Azure Datacenter IPs

12. THAT’S ALL FOLKS
@maarteneekels