How do I share files with Azure?
Create an Azure file share
- When the Azure storage account deployment is complete, select Go to resource.
- Select File Shares in the storage account dashboard.
- Select + Share file.
- Name the new file share qsfileshare, enter “1” for Quota, leave Optimized Transaction selected, and select Create.
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Which two items must be specified when configuring Azure file shares?
Storage Account Name – The name of the storage account resource to be created. This name must be globally unique, but can otherwise be any name you like. The storage account name will be used as the server name when you mount an Azure file share via SMB. Location: The region where the storage account will be deployed.
Does Azure Files support the REST API?
Azure Files provides hosted cloud file shares that you can access (“mount”) using industry standard file system protocols such as SMB and NFS. Azure Files also provides a REST API, often called the FileREST API, which provides another method of accessing data stored on Azure file shares.
What is file share in Azure?
An Azure file share is a convenient place for cloud applications to write their logs, metrics, and crash dumps. Application instances can write logs via the File REST API, and developers can access them by mounting the file share on their local machine.
How to access Azure file share in PowerShell script?
Customers will upload data to Azure File Share and then the data will be moved from the share to a local drive using a PowerShell script. The PowerShell script is called every 15 minutes by a scheduled task. The configuration worked as expected, but during the first tests a problem occurred.
Why are my Azure files not connecting to my Azure file share?
Can’t access an Azure Files share or mapped drive hosted on Azure Files. If you’re using SMB version 2.1 for Azure Files storage and you connect the Azure Files share from the secondary region, it’s not supported. Yeah, that was something I thought about when I couldn’t connect.
Why can’t Azure connect from PowerShell?
It says you don’t have access to the subscription, but from the portal I can log in with the same credential. Could you provide more details about the environment to understand your problem?
Can SMB share be used in Azure PowerShell?
According to the documentation I should be able to use it as an smb share, but when I try to connect I get this error: New-SmbMapping: Cannot connect to CIM server. The specified service does not exist as an installed service. New-PSDrive does not exist in Azure Powershell.