Azure Drive - Windows Guide

Requirements: Azure Drive

Introduction

Azure Drive is an easy-to-use utility that mounts an Azure Storage File Share as a Windows drive. Once connected, you can browser and work with files as if they were stored on your local machine. The application is simple to use, yet very flexible and designed with performance and security in mind.

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Configuring a New Drive

Connecting a drive to an Azure Storage File Share is the primary function of the product and is designed to be simple. The following basic steps are all that's needed to mount a drive.

From the Drives tab of the main window, click New... to open the Edit Drive dialog.

Azure Drive home page with the "New..." button highlighted.

On the Edit Drive dialog input a local drive name and choose a drive letter. If the Azure tenant uses different governmental endpoints, select the corresponding endpoints, otherwise leave it a Global. Then, provide the name of the Storage Account the drive should be accessing. Finally, select between Access Key or OAuth for authentication. Finally, provide the File Share Name and if Azure Drvie should open within a specific Subfolder.

Azure Drive's edit drive page with the Azure Storage and File Share fields highlighted.

Click Test Azure Connection to verify the connection to the Azure Storage server, then press OK to save the new drive configuration.

Azure Drive's edit drive page with the test connection button highlighted.

Press Start on the main window to connect all the enabled drives.

Azure Drive home page with the start button hightlighted.

The drive should now be visible in Explorer and available to access by any application on the machine.

Windows Explorer showing the connected drive within the network drives.

Finding your Azure File Share Information

Azure Drive requires that the Account Name and File Share Name be provided when creating a new drive. This information can be found from the Azure Portal or by parsing the Share URL provided by Azure.

Azure Portal page for a File Share called testshare.

In the above picture, the file share name (testshare) is highlighted in the top left corner and the storage account (storageaccount) is highlighted under the Essentials. Additionally, the share URL is highlighed under the essientials. If provided just the share URL, the account information is in the first section of the domain and the file share name is in the first part of the path. For example, the important infromation is in bold in the "https://storageaccount.file.core.windows.net/testshare".

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