Microsoft Fabric: Local OneLake Tools

Sometimes you need to be able to interact with your cloud data locally - maybe it's to troubleshoot/diagnose an issue, or just to do some analysis using your favourite local tools. Ideally you'd be able to browse your cloud data locally and avoid always having to download new copies of your files just to do this.

Fortunately, there are a couple of tools that allow you to do just this with your OneLake data - namely the OneLake File Explorer and the trusty old Azure Storage Explorer. In this video we take a look at the two tools, and discuss some of the caveats you should be aware of when using them.

Microsoft Fabric End to End Demo - Part 5 - Navigating OneLake Data Locally

00:00 Intro
00:13 What is the OneLake File Explorer?
01:16 Recap: OneLake Lakehouse view
02:12 OneLake File Explorer Online Docs
02:33 Admin installation settings
03:12 Downloading OneLake File Explorer
03:30 Demo: Navigating OneLake File Explorer
04:24 Adding, deleting and syncing files
06:09 Gotcha 1 - "System" file access in OneLake File Explorer
07:20 Gotcha 2 - possible egress costs
09:55 What is Azure Storage Explorer?
10:32 Demo: Connecting to OneLake in Azure Storage Explorer
12:32 Navigating OneLake data in Azure Storage Explorer
13:57 Roundup & Outro

Useful links:

📖 OneLake File Explorer docs: learn.microsoft.com/en-us/fabric/onelake/onelake-f…
📖 Browsing OneLake with Azure Storage Explorer docs: learn.microsoft.com/en-us/fabric/onelake/onelake-a…

Series contents:

📺 Part 1 - Lakehouse & Medallion Architecture -    • Microsoft Fabric: Lakehouse & Medallion Ar...  
📺 Part 2 - Planning and Architecting a Data Project -    • Microsoft Fabric: Inspecting 28 MILLION ro...  
📺 Part 3 - Ingest Data -    • Microsoft Fabric: Ingesting 5GB into a Bro...  
📺 Part 4 - Creating a shortcut to ADLS Gen2 in Fabric -    • Microsoft Fabric: Creating a OneLake Short...  
📺 Part 5 - Navigating OneLake data locally -    • Microsoft Fabric: Local OneLake Tools  
📺 Part 6 - Role of the Silver layer in the Medallion Architecture -    • Microsoft Fabric: Role of the Silver Lakeh...  
📺 Part 7 - Processing Bronze to Silver -    • Microsoft Fabric: Processing Bronze to Sil...  
If you want to learn more about Fabric, take a look at some of our other content:
📺 Part 8 - Good Notebook Development Practices -    • Microsoft Fabric: Good Notebook Developmen...  

🤖 [Course] Microsoft Fabric: from Descriptive to Predictive Analytics:    • Microsoft Fabric: Machine Learning Tutoria...  
👉 Perspectives on #MicrosoftFabric: endjin.com/what-we-think/talks/perspectives-on-mic…
👉 A Tour Around #MicrosoftFabric: endjin.com/what-we-think/talks/a-tour-around-micro…
👉 Introduction to #MicrosoftFabric: endjin.com/blog/2023/05/intro-to-microsoft-fabric

and find all the rest of our content here: endjin.com/blog/2023/05/microsoft-fabric-announced

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