The easiest way to access Azure File Storage?

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I need to migrate an application to Azure and I have a Azure Web Application with 50gb storage space and an Azure File Storage with 250gb, that I'll use to store videos, images and other things.

My application stores the files in a folder in the same directory of my application, so It was easy to do, I didn't have to access another server, like Azure File Storage seems to be.

I have access by FTP to my app folder, like It was at the other server, but this folder only have the 50GB of storage. Does exist an way of mapping the 250gb's Azure File Storage folder to my app folder, or I'll have to change my code to use the Azure API?

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2 Answers

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Your application can work against Azure File shares without code changes. You will need to persist credentials using cmdkey, and then instead of local path, use the file share path or mounted drive within your application. For more information you can refer to:

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I run a batch file on login which runs the following command, you can use whichever drive letter you choose:

net use <drive-letter>: /delete /y
net use <drive-letter>: \\<storage-account-name>.file.core.windows.net\<share-name> /u:<storage-account-name> <storage-account-key>

An example with dummy information would look like this:

net use t: /delete /y
net use t: \\testaccount.file.core.windows.net\testshare /u:accountname verylongstorageaccountkey