How to: Set Up an Azure Storage Account

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Setting up the Azure Storage Account

Managing Azure Storage Account access keys

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Setting up the Azure Storage Account

  1. In a web browser, enter your organization's Azure portal (portal.azure.com).
  2. In Azure services, click Storage accounts (you might need to use the Search feature or click More services to find it).
  3. Click Create to create a new Azure Storage account.
  4. In the Basics tab:
    1. Select a valid Azure Subscription and Resource group where the resource is going to be created.
    2. Enter the Storage account name.
    3. Select the Region where the Storage account should be created.
      • We recommend creating Storage account in the same region as LS Central for performance reasons (lower latency).
      • In the Dynamics 365 Business Central admin center you can check the Azure Region where the environment is hosted.
    4. Set the Primary service to Azure Blob Storage or Azure Data Lake Storage Gen 2.
    5. Set the Primary workload to Other.
      • This option changes some Advanced settings, like the Blob Storage Access Tier, to Hot.
    6. Set the Performance to Standard.
    7. Set the Redundancy to Locally-redundant storage (LRS).
      • Business Central Online offers high availability supporting zone-redundancy.
      • Although it is not mandatory, if you want to guarantee the same level of availability for the data being replicated from LS Central SaaS to the offline POSs, you can select Zone-redundant storage (ZRS).
        Note: Pricing is higher when you use this option.
  5. In the Data protection tab:
    1. In the Recovery section, as this is only temporary data that is being replicated from HO to the Offline POSs, disable the following options:
      • Enable soft delete for blobs
      • Enable soft delete for containers
      • Enable soft delete for file shares.
  6. Click Review + Create.
  7. Click Create to create the Azure Storage Account.

Managing Azure Storage Account access keys

  1. In a web browser, enter your organization's Azure portal (portal.azure.com).
  2. In Azure services, click Storage accounts (you might need to use the Search feature or click More services to find it).
  3. Open the Storage account for which you need to get the access keys.
  4. In the Security + networking tab:
    • In Access keys section:
      1. Under key1, find the Key value.
      2. Click Show, and click the Copy to clipboard button to copy the account key.
        Note: Access key ends with ==

You can test and troubleshoot the Azure Storage Account connection using PowerShell scripts. For more information see Troubleshooting Azure Storage Account connection

See also

Microsoft Learn - Azure Storage - Create an Azure storage account

Microsoft Learn - Azure Storage - View account access keys