How to Create a Resource Lock in Microsoft Azure

Resource Locks are a feature available in Azure to prevent the removal or change of resources. As an administrator, you can lock an Azure subscription, resource group, or resource to protect them from accidental user deletions and modifications. The lock overrides any user permissions.

Steps to Create a Resource Lock:

Step 1:

Create a Microsoft Azure account and login(portal.azure.com)

Step 2:

Click on the search bar and search for Resource Group

Step 3:

Click on Create

Step 4:

Subscription: Choose your subscription
Resource Group: Choose a name of your choice
Region: your location or your region
Click on Review and Create

Step 5:

Click on Create

Step 6:
Your Resource Group is created

Click on it to access it

Step 7:
To add a Lock to your Resource Group

Click on Lock

Step 8:

Click on Add
Lock name: Choose any name
Lock type: Choose Read Only or Delete; (CanNotDelete means authorized users can read and modify a resource, but they can't delete it. ReadOnly means authorized users can read a resource, but they can't delete or update it.)
Notes: It helps to pass a message about the lock information
Click on OK

Step 9:
Click Home and search for storage account to create a Storage Account

Click Storage Account

Step 10:

Click on Create

Step 11:

Subscription: Choose your subscription
Resource Group: I chose "marchworkload" because it is the resource group I want to lock. I'll advice the same be done always because you're saving your storage account in the resource group.
Storage Account Name: Choose a unique name across all existing accounts in Azure
Region: Choose your region
Click Review

Step 12:

Click on Create

Step 13:
The Storage account has been created

Click on 'Go to resource' to view

Step 14:
Try to delete and see the error message

Click on Delete in order to test if your resource group lock worked
Copy the resource group name
Paste in the arrow part on the right bottom of your screen
Delete

Step 15:
The error message displayed is as a result of the locks on the resource group. Locks must be removed before resource can be deleted
This implies that the resource was locked correctly

Step 16:
The way to successfully remove a lock resource:

Go to Home and click on the resource group
Click on Locks

Step 17:

Click on Delete
You can also change the lock type to 'Read Only' by clicking on 'edit' close to 'delete'
See the 2nd picture to view what pops up if you want to change the lock type