How To Use Microsoft Azure Storage Explorer
This downloadable software is freely available.
How to use microsoft azure storage explorer. The advantage of using azure storage explorer instead of mounting the file share by using smb is that all requests that are made with azure storage explorer are made by using the file rest api. Both smb 2 1 and smb 3 0 are supported. Attach to a local. Azure data lake storage massively scalable secure data lake functionality built on azure blob storage file storage file shares that use the standard smb 3 0 protocol azure data explorer fast and highly scalable data exploration service.
7 minutes to read 3. In the azure storage explorer application select a container under a storage account. The good news about azure storage explorer is now it is integrated with the cloud console at the time of writing this article this feature is still sitting at the preview stage. Let s take a look at how you can manage the storage services and what are the methods you can use to connect with microsoft azure storage explorer standalone edition.
Use a name and key. To get a shared access signature uri you can either use storage explorer or the azure portal. The main pane shows a list of the blobs in the selected container. You can use the file rest api to create modify and delete files and directories on clients that don t have smb access.
Find your keys in the storage account page by selecting settings access keys in the azure portal. To download blobs using azure storage explorer with a blob selected select download from the ribbon. Using storage explorer with azure file storage.