We can access our environment’s storage using a SAS token.
Download – Azure Storage Explorer – https://azure.microsoft.com/features/storage-explorer/#overview
Select Connect to Azure resources option
Select ADLS Gen2 container or directory for the Azure storage type.
Select the Shared access signature URL for the connection
To get the SAS URL – https://[ContainerURL]/CDS?[SASToken],
we need ContainerURL and SASToken.
To get Container URL use the below link –
ContainerURL = <a href="https:///api/data/v9.1/datalakefolders”>https://<EnvironmentURL>/api/data/v9.1/datalakefolders
In our case – https://mycrm2022.crm.dynamics.com/api/data/v9.1/datalakefolders
The containerendpoint = https://aeth2b4c5907361d483c9641.dfs.core.windows.net/aeth-b986098f-1315-45cc-b8e6-61c5a1a1631a
Copy the value of containerendpoint (ContainerURL)
Navigate to the below URL by replacing the value of the Environment URL and Container URL
<a href="https:///api/data/v9.1/RetrieveAnalyticsStoreAccess(Url=@a,ResourceType=’Folder’,Permissions=’Read,List’)?@a=’/CDS”>https://<EnvironmentURL>/api/data/v9.1/RetrieveAnalyticsStoreAccess(Url=@a,ResourceType=’Folder’,Permissions=’Read,List’)?@a='<ContainerURL>/CDS’
i.e.
to get the SAS token (the SAS Token will expire after 1 hour)
Construct the SAS URL which we will use in the Azure Explorer’s connection info <a href="https:///CDS?https://<ContainerURL>/CDS?<SASToken>
https://aeth2b4c5907361d483c9641.dfs.core.windows.net/aeth-b986098f-1315-45cc-b8e6-61c5a1a1631a/CDS?skoid=3c1e8701-292f-478f-8f42-df7e9cc692c9&sktid=975f013f-7f24-47e8-a7d3-abc4752bf346&skt=2022-11-04T19%3A02%3A44Z&ske=2022-11-04T20%3A18%3A44Z&sks=b&skv=2020-08-04&sv=2020-08-04&se=2022-11-04T20%3A08%3A44Z&sr=d&sp=rl&sdd=1&sig=kKHHJLbb4gjAtTiQCbiuwQ8QrInY33zGEY1FvpxCLK%03D0
Now we have access to the storage
Here we have opened the contact folder just as an example
We only have read-only access, any other access like delete, rename, upload, etc. will fail
Get all the details here – https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/power-platform/admin/storage-sas-token
Hope it helps..
Nishant Rana's Weblog 
Hi Nishanta,
I just tried it, as I want to access the Realtime Marketing interactions: https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/dynamics365/customer-insights/journeys/real-time-marketing-interactions-reference.
However I think, since you wrote the article something changed. These are my current findings/hurdles:
– The “RetrieveAnalyticsStorageAccess” only works with Application Users. So you have to use Client ID and Secret
– The container-endpoint for all datalakes in my my environment is the same. So following the offical guide I always end up in the same location and see the same content.
I wanted to access the datalake for “msdynmkt_analytics”. Following the official guide I don’t see it. Of course I see the contacts and some other folders.
Any clue, how I can access a specific datalakefolder? Otherwise following the official procedure, I end up at the same location for any of the datalakefolder records.
Thank you for the post. It gave me the feeling not being the only “idiot”, trying this out 😀
Kind regards,
Lars
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