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Barisi Lenyie
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Creating Storage Account for Finance Department's shared file

In every project, the first thing is to create a Resource Group
But in this article, I will start by creating a Storage Account,

Create a Storage Account for any Department share file, but in this article, I will use the Finance Department

Step 1
In the search bar, type storage account and hit enter, and choose the storage account that is grayed out
storage accounts

Step 2
select + Create
+ create

Step 3
In the create environment, navigate to the resource group section and click create new, but if there is an existing resource group, click the drop-down arrow and select and click ok
Resource Group

Step 4
locate the storage account name section and type a name in the bar. Remember the naming convention that it must be globally unique, choose a Region as usual, and for Performance, choose Premium, for premium account type select file share, and for redundancy, select zone redundant storage, and review + create
Storage account name, region, performance, premium account type, redundancy & review + create

Step 5
click create
create

Step 6
Click Go to Resource
go to resource

Steps on how to add a directory to the file share created for the Finance Department

Step 1
By the overview panel, navigate to Data Storage and click the drop-down arrow and select file share, and from the Tabs, select *+file *
overview, data storage, file share & + file

Step 2
Give a name to the file and click Review + create
name, review + create

Step 3
Click create
create

Steps on how to Add a Directory to the File share for a particular department or segment for future testing and uploading of files

Step 1
Click + Add Directory, and in the pop-up bar, enter a name (e.g., Finance) and click OK.
+ Add Directory

Step 2
click Browse and select finance
browse & finance

Step 3
Click on Upload on the tab, click Browse for file, and click Upload
upload

Steps on how to configure and test a snapshot

Step 1
In the file share environment, navigate to the Operations section and click the drop-down, and select snapshot
operations,snapshot,

Steps on how to restore files with a snapshot

Step 1
From the overview pane, navigate to Data Storage and from the drop-down, select file share
overview and data storage

Step 2
Select Browse and locate the uploaded file, and click the three dots at the extreme and select delete from the options provided
browse

Step 3
Click yes to confirm delete
selection of image

Step 4
Navigate to operations and from the drop-down arrow, select snapshot, and double-click on the uploaded file
operations

Step 5
On the uploaded image bar, click the three dots at the extreme and select restore from the options provided
uploaded image

Step 6
Give it a restore name and click ok
Image

Step 7
Go back to browse for confirmation of the restore file, and also notice that the new restore file name will be the same as the one in the above step
browse

Steps on how to configure restricting storage access to the selected virtual network

Step 1
In the search bar, type virtual networks
virtual networks

Step 2
select +create
+create

Step 3
Give the Virtual Network name in the bar provided, and click review + create
virtual network and review + create

Step 4
click create
create

Step 5
Click Go to Resource
go to resource

Step 6
In the overview panel, navigate to settings and from the drop-down options, select subnet and the default
overview, settings, and subnet

Step 7
Navigate to the service endpoints, under service, click the drop-down, and select Microsoft Storage
service endpoints

I hope this article was helpful.

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