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Provision of Storage for IT department Testing and Training

Adejumoke Akinnuwesi — Mon, 04 May 2026 13:11:43 +0000

What is Azure Storage?

Azure storage is Microsoft's cloud storage solution. It allows storage of unstructured data, pdfs, file shares etc.

The following steps in this article outlines how I was able to create storage for the department's testing and training.

Create a resource group and a storage account

In the Azure portal, search for and select Resource groups

Select + Create

Give your resource group a name. For example, storagerg

Select a region. Use this region throughout the project

Select Create to deploy the resource group

Create and deploy a storage account to support testing and training

In the Azure portal, search for and select Storage accounts

Select + Create
On the Basics tab, select your Resource group

Provide a Storage account name. The storage account name must be unique in Azure.
Set the Performance to Standard

Select Review, and then Create
Wait for the storage account to deploy and then Go to resource

Configure simple settings in the storage account

In your storage account, in the Data management section, select the Redundancy blade.

Select Locally-redundant storage (LRS) in the Redundancy drop-down

The storage account should only accept requests from secure connections

In the Settings section, select the Configuration blade

Ensure Secure transfer required is Enabled

Developers would like the storage account to use at least TLS version 1.2

In the Settings section, select the Configuration blade
Ensure the Minimal TLS version is set to Version 1.2.

Ensure the storage account allows public access from all networks.

In the Security + networking section, select the Networking blade
Ensure Public network access is set to Enabled from all networks.

-Be sure to Save your changes.