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Enabling Azure Blob Storage

Detailed steps required to enable Azure Blobs as a file storage location

Updated over 2 months ago

Step 1 - Set up Azure Portal endpoint and token

Navigate to Endpoints within the Azure Portal storage account.

Copy the "Blob Service" endpoint

Navigate to "Shared Access Signature":

Ensure the following options are selected:

  1. Allowed Services

    1. Blob

  2. Allowed resource types

    1. Service

    2. Container

    3. Object

  3. Allowed permissions

    1. Read

    2. Write

    3. Delete

    4. List

    5. Add

    6. Create

    7. Immutable storage

    8. Permanent delete

  4. Blob versioning permissions

    1. Enables deletion of versions

  5. Allowed blob index permissions

    1. Read/Write

    2. Filter

Set the Expiry Date to a relevant future date.

Click "Generate SAS and connection string"


Step 2 - Enter token details into Dcisive

Within Dcisive, navigate to "Storage" within the "Settings" screen. Select "Add Storage"

Enter the storage details per the information captured earlier and click "Connect":

Verify that the connection input contains the green "Connected" indicator (contact Dcisive if connection cannot be established).

Specify the connection name and select the appropriate Container. Click "Save".

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