Hello there and thank you very much for joining us in
this new Azure Portal How To video. Today we will learn
how to manage a storage account using the Azure portal.
And we have Misha Dhar with us today that is going to
show us how to do to that with the Azure portal. So, thank
you very much for joining us today, Misha.
>> Thank you so much for having me, Leon. It’s so good
to be back. In our last video, we actually demo’d how to
create a storage account in Azure. And so, today we’re
going to take that same storage account and show you
how you can manage the account settings within it.
That sounds fantastic.
Let’s take a look at how you do it.
>> Awesome, let’s jump in.
So, first, we need to find the storage account we wish to
manage. If you’re looking to find a full list of storage
accounts in your subscriptions, navigate to storage
accounts in the portal and choose the desired account.
Here, we can see the account we just created under recent
resources. Let’s click here to jump in.
This is the overview page for storage accounts. We provide
links to your resource group and your subscription, as well
as important details about your account.
You can launch the storage
explorer desktop client, if you’d
like to manage your account scale. You can also delete or
move your account to a
different subscription or resource
group. Below we have a property section that highlights
key settings across the different sub resources—blobs,
files, queues, and tables, as well as settings that apply to
the entire account, like security
and networking. Here, we
can see the state of all these settings. And wherever
there’s a hyperlink, it means that we can click on said link
to modify the setting. You don’t need to know where each
of these settings sits within the storage account. Just click
the link to make the change. So, for example, let’s change
the retention period for blob soft delete from seven days to
14 days. Just click on this link and you’re navigated to the
data protection page, where we changed the seven to 14.
Click save. And we’re done.
If we go back to the overview page, we can see that the
change has been applied.
Next, we can click over to the monitoring tab. Here, we
present key metrics for the account like total data ingress
and egress. You can scope the charts displayed to either
the entire account or a specific sub resource. Clicking on a
chart will give you a full screen
view and additional metrics
functionality. We also provide you with some quick links at
the bottom of the page to other monitoring and alerting
resources within Azure. The capabilities tab presents key
functionality within the storage account. Click on any one
of the tiles to learn more and modify the setting of the
feature. Let’s take a look at security as an example.
I click on the tile and we’re on the page where we can opt
into Microsoft Defender for storage. We just click a button
to enable defender and there we go. And if we go back to
the capabilities tab on the overview page, we can now see
that defender has been configured and is protecting our
storage account.
On the next tab, we present recommendations for the
resource based on Azure Advisor. Since this account is
brand new and it’s following the Azure best practices,
there’s no action for us
today. But if there were potential
security, reliability, or other concerns, Azure Advisor would
flag them for you here. You can always jump into Azure
Advisor for a detailed view across your subscriptions.
Moving on. We come to the tutorials tab. Here we provide
quick links to documentation. Quickstarts, guided tutorials,
as well as free training that Microsoft offers to all Azure
users. If you need to learn more about how storage
accounts work, this is the place to dive in.
Lastly, we come to developer tools. Here we provide quick
links to client libraries in a couple of different languages.
We also have links to key management tools. The storage
explorer desktop client is a useful utility to manage
accounts at scale without having to log into the Azure
portal. You can also find it in the command bar at the top
of the page. If you’re working with multiple storage
accounts, this is a great tool to utilize. If you’re looking to
use automated tools like PowerShell or Azure Command
Line interface, we also provide links to key commands for
those touch points.
>> Thank you very much, Misha. That was a great, a lot
of fantastic detail. I learned a lot and I hope you learned
a lot too. Please try this out. Let us know what you think.
Leave us a comment in the comment section. If this is the
first video of storage that you see, Misha did another one
with us, where he showed how to create a storage account,
The same storage account that he was managing in this
video. Next, Misha is going to come back and show us how
to manage the contents of a storage account. And it’s a
video that you really would want to see, so look forward to
seeing you in the next one. Bye for now.