Barisi Lenyie

Posted on Nov 18 • Edited on Nov 20

Creating Storage Account for Finance Department's shared file

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In every project, the first thing is to create a Resource Group
But in this article, I will start by creating a Storage Account,

Create a Storage Account for any Department share file, but in this article, I will use the Finance Department

Step 1
In the search bar, type storage account and hit enter, and choose the storage account that is grayed out

Step 2
select + Create

Step 3
In the create environment, navigate to the resource group section and click create new, but if there is an existing resource group, click the drop-down arrow and select and click ok

Step 4
locate the storage account name section and type a name in the bar. Remember the naming convention that it must be globally unique, choose a Region as usual, and for Performance, choose Premium, for premium account type select file share, and for redundancy, select zone redundant storage, and review + create

Step 5
click create

Step 6
Click Go to Resource

Steps on how to add a directory to the file share created for the Finance Department

Step 1
By the overview panel, navigate to Data Storage and click the drop-down arrow and select file share, and from the Tabs, select *+file *

Step 2
Give a name to the file and click Review + create

Step 3
Click create

Steps on how to Add a Directory to the File share for a particular department or segment for future testing and uploading of files

Step 1
Click + Add Directory, and in the pop-up bar, enter a name (e.g., Finance) and click OK.

Step 2
click Browse and select finance

Step 3
Click on Upload on the tab, click Browse for file, and click Upload

Steps on how to configure and test a snapshot

Step 1
In the file share environment, navigate to the Operations section and click the drop-down, and select snapshot

Steps on how to restore files with a snapshot

Step 1
From the overview pane, navigate to Data Storage and from the drop-down, select file share

Step 2
Select Browse and locate the uploaded file, and click the three dots at the extreme and select delete from the options provided

Step 3
Click yes to confirm delete

Step 4
Navigate to operations and from the drop-down arrow, select snapshot, and double-click on the uploaded file

Step 5
On the uploaded image bar, click the three dots at the extreme and select restore from the options provided

Step 6
Give it a restore name and click ok

Step 7
Go back to browse for confirmation of the restore file, and also notice that the new restore file name will be the same as the one in the above step

Steps on how to configure restricting storage access to the selected virtual network

Step 1
In the search bar, type virtual networks

Step 2
select +create

Step 3
Give the Virtual Network name in the bar provided, and click review + create

Step 4
click create

Step 5
Click Go to Resource

Step 6
In the overview panel, navigate to settings and from the drop-down options, select subnet and the default

Step 7
Navigate to the service endpoints, under service, click the drop-down, and select Microsoft Storage and save

Steps on how to ensure the storage account is only accessed by the virtual network that was created

Step 1
Click the Storage Account

Step 2
Locate the created *storage *

Step 3
In the overview pane, navigate to Security + Network and from the drop-down arrow, choose Network

Step 4
**Click **Public Access Network and choose Enable and for Public Access Network Scope, choose Enable from Selected Networks

Step 5
Scroll down to Virtual Network, and below is the + Add a Virtual Network option. Click the drop-down arrow, fill in the necessary information, click Add, and Save