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Clinton Mbilitem
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A Guide To Using Azure To Provide Offices With Shared File Storage

Hello everyone! This post promises to give us an even more rigorous cloud exercise as we really build some cloud muscle. The focus of this paper will be Azure Storage.

Azure file storage: what is it all about? a Shared file storage is the purpose of Azure file storage. When you need to share files with several users or programs, it is the perfect fit.

This piece will assist us in:

  • Making a storage account just for file sharing.
  • Setting up a directory and file share.
  • Setting up snapshots and practice file restoration.
  • Limiting access to a certain subnet and virtual network.
  • Let's get started right away! Come with me to the cloud!

create a storage account

Isearch storage

create storage

review and create

go to resource

This requires high Availability

select managment and redundancy

select geo-storage and save

Create a storage container, upload a file, and restrict access to the file

select your storage account

select data storage and then container

select create container

create container

create container

set container to private and save

set container to private

Test to ensure the file isn’t publically accessible

  • select container

select container

  • press the upload button and upload any picture and press upload

upload image

  • select the buttons at the right

  • copy url

copy url

  • paste on another browerser and that access is denied because we set this on private earlier

for sharing files to external partners for lets say 24 hours

select sas generate

select sas

check its 24 hours and generate url

copy url and paste on a new tab to see picture with 24hr access

Image of uploaded file online

Configure storage access tiers and content replication inorder to save cost

select storage account

  • check the tier hot status

check the tier hot status

  • select data management and life cycle

select data management and life cycle

-add rule

add rule

  • move to cool move to cool

-delete after 30 days

delete after 30 days

we need to backup the public account

create backup storage

select data management

create a backup

select your public storage

select objectile

create objectile

  • puplic and backup and create

puplic and backup and create

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