Create an Azure Storage Account for securely sharing files with clients

Create an Azure Storage Account

• In Azure Portal create a new Storage Account in a new or existing resource group. The tenant and subscription will depend on the client for which the file sharing is needed.
• During setup ensure that "Enable storage account key access" is enabled.

• If huge need to be shared (1TB +), ensure that "Enable large file shares" is enabled.

Create a blob container

• In Azure Portal browse to the Azure Storage Account that was created and go to the "Containers" blade.
• Add a new Container and give it a name.

![docs-storage-account-container-new.png (https://app-nmlcoza-cms-uat-sano.azurewebsites.net/uploads/03_storageaccount_container_new_1e4eafbe47.png)

Click create

• Select the created container from the list on the screen and go to the "Shared access tokens" blade.

• Set the appropriate permission for the Shared access token.

• If the client has a known IP address configure "Allowed IP addresses" (Optional).

• Set an appropriate date and time for "Start" and "Expiry" of the shared access token.

• Click "Generate SAS token and URL"
• Copy the Blob SAS URL from the resulting text box and send to the client

Share files using Azure Storage Explorer

https://docs.nml.co.za/docs/user-azure-storage-explorer-to-share-files-with-clients