In April 2018 Microsoft added the SSIS pipeline activity to ADF. A couple of days ago the released a new version. What are the changes?
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| ADF - Execute SSIS Package activity |
Solution
The big difference is that you can now select your packages and environment instead of typing the full paths manually, but there is also an new "Manual entries" option which allows you to set parameters (and connection managers) directly within the pipeline.
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| Selecting package and environment |
See below the old version of the SSIS activity where you had to type the full paths manually.
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| The old manual entry |
Conclusion
Again much easier then before, but in case of package errors still not very helpful. It still forces you to search for errors in the SSIS catalog. If you are using the ADF monitor to the check for errors I would probably still prefer the Stores Procedure activity.