Hello, I'm wondering if someone could provide some insight into the Purview Data Map > Source Management > Connections blade? (what is it used for?) There doesn't seem to be any documentation on this feature, and I haven't been able to identify its functionality when testing it.

I believe the Purview Data Map > Source Management > Connections blade in Purview is used to manage connections to different data sources. This is where you set up and manage all the connections to your various sources (such as Power BI, Azure Data Lake Storage, Azure SQL Database etc.) that you want to list in Purview. When a connection is made, you can create and manage scans for that data source, which will populate the Purview Data Map with metadata about the data in the source.

What is the functionality of Purview Data Map > Source Management > Connections?

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Hello, I'm wondering if someone could provide some insight into the Purview Data Map > Source Management > Connections blade? (what is it used for?)

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There doesn't seem to be any documentation on this feature, and I haven't been able to identify its functionality when testing it.

PRADEEPCHEEKATLA-MSFT 80,661 Reputation points Microsoft Employee

2024-04-01T06:53:56.8966667+00:00

@Brendan Yee - We are reaching out to the internal team to get more information related to your query and will get back to you as soon as we have an update.
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2024-04-01T07:17:14.2966667+00:00

@Brendan Yee - Could you please help us with screenshot - what do you seen when you click on Connections options?
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2024-04-04T08:04:42.1833333+00:00

@Brendan Yee - Just checking in to see if the below answer provided by @Pauline Mbabu helped.

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Pauline Mbabu 90 Reputation points Microsoft Employee

2024-04-02T15:01:24.5233333+00:00

I believe the Purview Data Map > Source Management > Connections blade in Purview is used to manage connections to different data sources. This is where you set up and manage all the connections to your various sources (such as Power BI, Azure Data Lake Storage, Azure SQL Database etc.) that you want to list in Purview. When a connection is made, you can create and manage scans for that data source, which will populate the Purview Data Map with metadata about the data in the source.
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Brendan Yee 40 Reputation points

2024-05-15T19:07:11.1333333+00:00

Hi Pauline, thank you for the response.

My understanding is that the data source connections described above are managed in the data map (Purview Data Map > Data sources > collection > register):

This is different from the Purview Data Map > Source Management > Connections blade, though, as fewer data sources are shown ('All' tab is selected):

I'm wondering what the functionality of the Source Management > Connections blade (second screenshot) is?
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