Known issue - Write to shortcut destination using workspace identity fails

You can create a OneLake Azure Data Lake Storage (ADLS) Gen2 shortcut inside a Fabric lakehouse. You can set the authentication method to use a workspace identity. In the scenario where you use a workspace identity, writing to the shortcut destination fails. Reading successfully works.

Status: Fixed: October 31, 2024

Product Experience: OneLake

Symptoms

You can't write to ADLS Gen2 using a shortcut that uses a workspace identity to authenticate. For example, when you write to the destination using a Spark notebook, you receive an error. The error message is similar to: "SparkException: [TASK_WRITE_FAILED] Task failed while writing rows to ..."

Solutions and workarounds

No workarounds at this time. This article will be updated when the fix is released.

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