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Clinton Mbilitem

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How create a storage account for sharing files in a global company with exclusive access.

hey guys! ever woandered how create a storage account for sharing files in a global company with exclusive storage available as well using Azure?
well then, let dive in!

create resource group and account storage

search account storage

resoucre name

Select premium, select fileshare and redundancy

select premium

now we create a fileshare

fileshare

create file

file name

create

add a directory for the finance department

add directory
name it finance
name it finance

select browse
select browse

select finance

uplaod a photo to finance directory
uplaod a photo to finance directory

now to protect our files from being deleted accidentely

select our finance
select our finance

find fileshare

create snapshot

select snapshot

if you select finace you can see that our uploaded file is in there, well backed up

you can see

Now use snapshot to restore our files incase deleted

file share

delete file uploaded to directry

delete file uploaded to directry

delete file uploaded to directry

select snapshot

select snapshot

select file

select option and restore

select option and restore

Verify your file directory has the restored file

our file is back

Now to restrict access to our files for some Networks

search for virtual network

search for virtual network

create

  • create virtual network name and create

create virtual network name and create

go to resource

  • go to settings

go to settings

  • press the default and then select microsoft.storage in the drop down

press the default

-select security and network

select security and network

  • select our virtual network security

add

  • save

save

you can see our storage account cannot be accessed by every network again

see message

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Skill.Sch

Good job!