‘22124, 5:09 PM Quickstar- Croats a blo with Azure Storage Explorer - Azure Storage | Microsoft Lear Quickstart: Use Azure Storage Explorer to create a blob Article + 12/20/2022 In this quickstart, you lear how to use Azure Storage Explorer _ to create a container and a blob. Next, you learn how to download the blob to your local computer, and how to view all of the blobs in a container. You also learn how to create a snapshot of a blob, manage container access policies, and create a shared access signature Prerequisites To access Azure Storage, you'll need an Azure subscription. If you don't already have a subscription, create a free account _ before you begin All access to Azure Storage takes place through a storage account. For this quickstart, create a storage account using the Azure portal, Azure PowerShell, or Azure CLI. For help creating a storage account, see Create a storage account. This quickstart requires that you install Azure Storage Explorer. To install Azure Storage Explorer for Windows, Macintosh, or Linux, see Azure Storage Explorer Log in to Storage Explorer On first launch, the Microsoft Azure Storage Explorer - Connect to Azure Storage dialog is shown, Several resource options are displayed to which you can connect: ‘* Subscription © Storage account * Blob container ‘* ADLS Gen2 container or directory © File share * Queue * Table * Local storage emulator In the Select Resource panel, select Subscription. ntps:leam microsof.comlon-ustazuelstorage/olobsiquicksta-storage-oxplorer 18‘yo2124, 5:09 PM Quickstar- Croats a blob with Azure Storage Explorer - Azure Storage [Microsoft Lear Selec Resource Q In the Select Azure Environment panel, select an Azure environment to sign in to. You can sign in to global Azure, a national cloud or an Azure Stack instance. Then select Next. E. Connectto Azure Storage x“ Select Azure Environment Select Azure Environment Signin Which Azure environment will you use to sign in? @) Y Azure Chine © Azure US Government D Cutten Envicenment: Manage curtem environments cn & tock Storage Explorer will open a webpage for you to sign in. After you successfully sign in with an Azure account, the account and the Azure subscriptions associated with that account appear under ACCOUNT MANAGEMENT. Select the Azure subscriptions that you want to work with, and then select Open Explorer. hntps:leam mirosof.conmver-us/azurelstoragelblobsiquickstart-storage-explorer 28‘2124, 5:09 PM Quickstar- Croats a blob with Azure Storage Explorer - Azure Storage | Microsoft Learn Ey Microsoft Azure Storage Bxolorer Fle Edt View Help accou Select the tenants you want to load subscriptions. from and the subscriptions you want to view resources from, Contoso: User@contoso.com Remove All subscriptions (My example subscription abcd1234-ab12-cd34-ef56-abcd1234 © My sample subscription abi2ed34-ab12-cd34-efS6-ab12ed34 add an account. After Storage Explorer finishes connecting, it displays the Explorer tab. This view gives you insight to all of your Azure storage accounts as well as local storage configured through the Azurite storage emulator or Azure Stack environments. «|p Collapse All Refresh All zat Quick Access > P Local & Attached > ES Storage Accounts > @ Disks {© Cosmos DB Accounts (Deprecated) [By Date Lake Storage Gen! (Preview) Create a container hntps:leam mirosof.conmver-us/azurelstoragelblobsiquickstart-storage-explorer12214, 09 PM. Cuickstar- Croatoa blob wih Azure Storage Explorer - Azure Storage |Mirosof Lea To create a container, expand the storage account you created in the proceeding step. Select Blob Containers, right-click and select Create Blob Container. Enter the name for your blob container. See the Create a container section for a list of rules and restrictions on naming blob containers. When complete, press Enter to create the blob container. Once the blob container has been successfully created, it is displayed under the Blob Containers folder for the selected storage account. EXPL «|p Collapse All Refresh All ra Quick Access » GP Local & Attached 4 @ My Example Subscription 4 & Storage Accounts 4H storageaccount 4 TT Blob Containers TI Sloge TT container-example > ij File Shares > TM Queues > GE Tables > @ Disks '6/ Cosmos DB Accounts (Deprecated) By Data Lake Storage Gent (Preview) Q Upload blobs to the container Blob storage supports block blobs, append blobs, and page blobs. VHD files used to back laaS VMs are page blobs. Append blobs are used for logging, such as when you want to write to a file and then keep adding more information. Most files stored in Blob storage are block blobs On the conti er ribbon, select Upload. This operation gives you the option to upload a folder ora file. ntps:leam mirosot.comver-usiazurelstoragelblobsiquickstart-storage-explorer 48‘1204, 5:09PM Cuickatan- Creat blob wih Arie Storage Explorer -Arire Storage | Mirosot Learn Choose the files or folder to upload. Select the blob type. Acceptable choices are Append, Page, or Block blob. If uploading a .vhd or .vhdx file, choose Upload .vhd/.vhdx files as page blobs (recommended). In the Upload to folder (optional) field either a folder name to store the files or folders in a folder under the container. If no folder is chosen, the files are uploaded directly under the container, Ei MiroroAawe Stonge Epler x Upload Files Select the er you wan to uplod the type of Bob ou want to upload a, andthe Sects fie: hallo word png helo word 2png hello wed 3.pnq hallo workspng Bib Hype Bock Blob a 1G Uploed wna les 98 page blcbe recommends) Theget Access Ter Detoue ¥) Destination director sutyect Helo Wor a & Upload When you select Upload, the files selected are queued to upload, each file is uploaded When the upload is complete, the results are shown in the A ies window. View blobs in a container In the Azure Storage Explorer application, select a container under a storage account. The main pane shows a list of the blobs in the selected container. ntps:leam microsof.comlon-ustazuelstorage/olobsiquicksta-storage-oxplorer 58‘so2124, 5:09 PM Quickstar- Create a blob with Azure Storage Explorer - Azure Storage [Microsoft Learn Soccaies me Download blobs To download blobs using Azure Storage Explorer, with a blob selected, select Download from the ribbon. A file dialog opens and provides you the ability to enter a file name. Select Save to start the download of a blob to the local location. Manage snapshots Azure Storage Explorer provides the capability to take and manage snapshots of your blobs. To take a snapshot of a blob, right-click the blob and select Create Snapshot. To view snapshots for a blob, right-click the blob and select Manage history and Manage Snapshots. A list of the snapshots for the blob are shown in the current tab. hntps:leam mirosof.conmver-us/azurelstoragelblobsiquickstart-storage-explorersa, 509 Pa Chics Crane a ob wih Azure Stage Exbrer-Anr Storage [Mion Lean Generate a shared access signature You can use Storage Explorer to generate a shared access signatures (SAS). Right-click a storage account, container, or blob and choose Get Shared Access Signature... Choose the start and expiry time, and permissions for the SAS URL and select Create. Storage Explorer generates the SAS token with the parameters you specified and displays it for copying. hy fi -ler ean Shared Access Signature Blobs HelloWoridjpg ttps://hr67zeymobyjksawinvm.blob.corewindowsnet/mytestcont: | Copy sting Copy Beck Close When you create a SAS for a storage account, Storage Explorer generates an account SAS. For more information about the account SAS, see Create an account SAS. When you create a SAS for a container or blob, Storage Explorer generates a service SAS. For more information about the service SAS, see Create a service SAS. © Note ntps:leam microsof.comlen-ustazuelstorage/lobsiquicksta-storage-oxplorer 78+2224, 5:09 PM Cuickstar- Croatoa blob wih Azure Storage Explorer - Azure Storage |Mirosof Lea When you create a SAS with Storage Explorer, the SAS is always assigned with the storage account key. Storage Explorer does not currently support creating a user delegation SAS, which is a SAS that is signed with Microsoft Entra credentials. Next steps In this quickstart, you leamed how to transfer files between a local disk and Azure Blob storage using Azure Storage Explorer. To learn more about working with Blob storage, continue to the Blob storage overview. [tnretuctono Are ob Storage] nttps:leam microsof.comlen-ustazuelstorage/olobsiquicksta-storage-oxplorer 8