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Getting Started

Get started with Azure Storage

11/8/2016, Video, 0:04:19

Learn how to get started using Azure Storage services including blobs, tables, files, and queues from Windows and Linux.
Azure Storage Performance, Scalability and Security

4/29/2015, Video, 0:56:44

Cloud, on premise, and mobile applications are all increasingly using cloud storage. Azure Storage is a cloud storage service which provides scalability, durability, and...
Understanding and Using Azure Storage

11/16/2017, Mva

Understanding the storage capabilities in Azure can ensure an optimal infrastructure deployment and that you're using the right type of service while minimizing how much your...
Planning and Designing Microsoft Azure Storage Solutions

11/16/2017, Mva

Understanding the storage capabilities in Azure can ensure an optimal infrastructure deployment and that you're using the right type of service while minimizing how much your...
Use Azure Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS) as a starting point on your cloud journey

9/28/2016, Video, 1:08:59

The benefits of Cloud to IT organizations is undeniable, yet many of you are in early stages of plotting out your journey to the Cloud. Microsoft Azure IaaS is a collection of...
Microsoft Azure Storage Explorer

6/20/2016, Tool

Microsoft Azure Storage Explorer (Preview) is a standalone app from Microsoft that allows you to easily work with Azure Storage data on Windows, OSX and Linux.
Data on Azure: The big picture

9/28/2017, Video, 1:12:13

Microsoft Azure provides a broad range of services for working with data. Using these services well requires knowing at least a little bit about all of them. In this session,...

Latest Content

Date	Title
4/16/2018	4/16/2018 GUID migration: Zone Redundant Storage Service Updates Starting June 1, 2018, we will migrate the GUIDs of zone-redundant snapshots and images for managed disks from Locally Redundant Storage GUIDs to Zone Redundant Storage GUIDs.
4/10/2018	4/10/2018 IoT: živé přechroupávání dat do Azure SQL DB, Cosmos DB a Power BI s Azure Stream Analytics Pokračuji v seznamování se s IoT v Azure a dnes budu chtít surová data z IoT Hubu kontinuálně přechroupávat, trochu filtrovat, trochu agregovat a hlavně posílat na dlouhodobé uložení v Azure SQL...
3/30/2018	3/30/2018 General availability: Zone-redundant storage Service Updates Simplify development of highly available applications by storing three replicas of your data in different Availability Zones with zone-redundant storage.
3/28/2018	3/28/2018 (Cross Post) Announcing public preview of soft delete for Azure Storage Blobs Azure Storage Blog We are excited to announce the public preview of soft delete for Azure Storage Blobs! The feature is one part of a complete data protection strategy and can help prevent inadvertent data loss.
3/28/2018	3/28/2018 Azure Blob Storage - Find Blobs that have a particular Access Tier TechNet Gallery I created this script to be able to search large Azure blob storage containers for blobs that had a 'Hot' access tier. The variable within the script can be edited to search for Blobs with Hot,...
3/28/2018	3/28/2018 Setting Blob Tiers to 'Archive' for large data sets in Azure Blob Storage TechNet Gallery I created this script for a client who wanted to change their off-site backups from Tapes to Azure Blob storage. The total amount of data to be migrated to Azure was approximately 40TB and for...
3/16/2018	3/16/2018 Episode 220 - Logic Apps Update Azure Podcast Logic Apps Principal PM Kevin Lam is back to give us all the latest and greatest updates on the service. It has definitely come a long way since we had him on the show last about a year and half...
3/7/2018	3/7/2018 Announcing Storage Service Encryption with customer managed keys general availability Microsoft Azure Blog Today, we are excited to announce the general availability of Azure Storage Service Encryption with customer managed keys integrated with Azure Key Vault for Azure Blob Storage.
2/28/2018	2/28/2018 Public preview: Soft delete for Azure Storage blobs Service Updates We are excited to announce the public preview of soft delete for Azure Storage Blobs! The feature is one part of a complete data protection strategy and can help prevent inadvertent data loss.
2/24/2018	2/24/2018 Find unused Managed Disks In your Azure you might have created Managed disks and never used them. Do you still pay for disks which are not in use? Then delete them if they are not in use....
2/21/2018	2/21/2018 Blobs, File, Tables and queue storage configuration TechNet Gallery Blobs, File, Tables and queue storage configurationRCLOUDWEB4 COMMENTSON BLOBS, FILE, TABLES AND QUEUE STORAGE CONFIGURATIONStorage account are covered below sub storage accounts where your data...
2/20/2018	2/20/2018 Azure - Identify and Optionally Delete Orphaned Disks TechNet Gallery PowerShell script to automate identifying "Orphaned Disks" in an Azure subscription. An Orphaned Disk is a Disk that does NOT have an "Active Lease" (Unmanaged Disks) or does NOT have a...

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Web Content

Azure Documentation

1. Azure Storage Documentation
2. Overview
     2.1. Introduction
     2.2. Choose Blobs, Files, or Disks
3. Blobs
4. Files
5. Queues
6. Tables
7. Disks
     7.1. Windows
     7.2. Linux

Web Pages

Content	Type
Azure Virtual Datacenter: Lift and Shift Guide	Whitepaper
Interact with Azure Table Storage via Rest API with PowerShell	Sample
Azure TCO Calculator	Webpage
High Availability Checklist	Webpage
Build 2016 Workshops: Azure Data Services	Lab
Rethinking Enterprise Storage: A Hybrid Cloud Model	Ebook
Microsoft Azure Storage Explorer	Website
Azure Storage Homepage	Webpage
Building Cloud Apps with Microsoft Azure	Ebook
Protecting Data in Microsoft Azure	Whitepaper

Online Training Content

Date	Title
11/16/2017	Understanding and Using Azure Storage Understanding the storage capabilities in Azure can ensure an optimal infrastructure deployment and that you're using the right type of service while minimizing how much your organization spends. This course, Understanding and Using Azure Storage, is the vehicle to get you there. First, you'll get an introduction to storage fundamentals and a...
11/16/2017	Planning and Designing Microsoft Azure Storage Solutions Understanding the storage capabilities in Azure can ensure an optimal infrastructure deployment and that you're using the right type of service while minimizing how much your organization spends. This course, Understanding and Using Azure Storage, is the vehicle to get you there. First, you'll get an introduction to storage fundamentals and a...
2/25/2017	Microsoft Azure for IT Pros Content Series: Storage If you’re an IT Pro interested in Microsoft Azure Storage, be sure to join MVP Corey Hynes for the fifth in a series of Azure for IT Pros courses. Learn what Azure Storage is, how we think about it, and how we plan it—whether running virtual machines, storing data, or supporting different applications. Explore the basics of how Azure Storage works,...
2/24/2017	Pluralsight: Managing Infrastructure with Microsoft Azure - Getting Started This course, Managing Infrastructure with Microsoft Azure - Getting Started, equips the new Azure administrator with the skills needed to be successful deploying infrastructure-as-a-service (IaaS) applications and services. First, you'll learn to deploy Azure virtual machines (VMs) by using the Azure Portal, Windows PowerShell, and the Azure...
1/16/2017	Azure Developer Workshop (Storage, Cognitive, ML, Stream Analytics, Containers, and Docker) Looking for a practical, hands-on introduction to Microsoft Azure for developers? This is your course! Watch expert hosts Susan Ibach, of Microsoft, and Jeff Prosise, from Wintellect, and get the details you need on Azure Storage, Azure Stream Analytics, Cognitive Services, Machine Learning, containers, Docker, and much more. Get an introduction to...
9/30/2016	Microsoft Azure for IT Pros Content Series: Introduction to Microsoft Azure Want to know the basics of Microsoft Azure? Join MVP Corey Hynes as he delivers the first in a series of courses designed to teach you all about Azure. Explore foundational concepts in this Azure training. Learn why Azure exists and what problems it solves for startups and for Fortune 500 companies. Plus, take a look at other high-level conceptual...
2/16/2016	Data Storage and Processing in the Cloud Demystified If you’d like insight into data storage and processing in the cloud, be sure to check out this helpful cloud training course. Get a look at the Microsoft storage strategy, starting with on-premises storage and the company's investments in server storage. Explore hybrid cloud storage, and then dive i
12/11/2015	Deliver Scalable, Software-Defined Storage Anywhere Learn how to simplify your storage, lower your TCO, and scale on demand with the latest high-performance storage investments in Microsoft Azure Stack Software-Defined Storage (on-premises), StorSimple (hybrid), and Azure Storage (cloud). See how cloud scale, cost, and ease of integration inflection
3/7/2015	Microsoft Azure Fundamentals: Storage and Data Continuing your journey to the cloud with the Microsoft Azure Fundamentals series? Join the ever-popular Bob Tabor of LearnVisualStudio.net, in the third installment, as he explores cloud storage and data, specifically the various ways you can store structured, semi-structured, and schema-free data
1/20/2015	Hybrid Cloud Workloads: Storage and Backup As you may know, Microsoft is becoming a "devices & services" company. And devices can mean more than phones, tablets, and consumer services. They can also be data center infrastructure products. The same way that client/server architectures reshaped enterprise computing in the '90s, d

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Tools

Tool	Description	Author
Managing Blobs within an AzureRm Storage Account	Download all the Blobs from AzureRm Storage account for a specific date. You need to enter the date in "dd-mm-yyyy" format.The script is build on a Taxonomy.Storage account ->Contains Storage container -> Blob( Page Blob and Block Blob)	Clavin Fernandes
PowerShell to Setup Azure File Share	This article is about creating Azure File Share using PowerShell.
Azure Speed Tests	Webpage for testing various Azure services including Azure Storage, CDN, etc.
Azure Speed Test	Tool for testing latency of Blob Storage access. Results are shown for all Azure datacenters with a message indicating the nearest datacenter from user's current location.	Two10degrees
CloudXplorer	A rich UI client for browsing Azure Blobs & Files.	ClumsyLeaf
Cloud Combine	Cloud Combine is IDE for cloud services that works in a way you expect. It supports Microsoft Azure, Amazon AWS and Google Cloud as well as golden classics such as FTP.	Gapotchenko
Azure Management Studio	One tool to manage your Microsoft Azure cloud storage, diagnostics data and application workflows.	Cerebrata
Azure Feature Pack for Integration Services (SSIS)	SQL Server Integration Services (SSIS) Feature Pack for Azure for SQL Server 2016 is an extension that provides the following components for SSIS to connect to Azure, transfer data between Azure and on-premises data sources, and process data stored in Azure.	Microsoft
CloudMonix	CloudMonix enhances Microsoft Azure by providing deep monitoring of most of Azure's infrastructure via live dashboards, ability to self-heal from many different production issues, on-demand historical performance and uptime reports, customizable alerts & notifications, sophisticated auto-scaling engine, integration to third party systems, and a lot more.	Paraleap Technologies
Azure Explorer	A free storage tool for Microsoft Azure Storage. Among other features, it lets you manage all your Microsoft Azure blobs in one place, reliably upload and download blobs with a responsive UI, transfer blobs between your storage accounts, easily search and filter your blobs.	Red Gate Software Ltd.
Microsoft Azure Storage Explorer	Microsoft Azure Storage Explorer (Preview) is a standalone app from Microsoft that allows you to easily work with Azure Storage data on Windows, OSX and Linux.	Microsoft
AzCopy	AzCopy is a Windows command-line utility designed for copying data to and from Microsoft Azure Blob, File, and Table storage using simple commands with optimal performance. You can copy data from one object to another within your storage account, or between storage accounts.	Microsoft

Videos

Date	Title	Length
11/13/2017	Cloud Tech 10 - 13th November 2017 - Grafana, Linux FUSE Adapter, Azure Stack and more! CloudTechTV Like keeping up with Azure but struggling to find enough time? Then this is the video for you! I'm Mark Whitby, a Cloud Solution Architect at Microsoft UK. Each week, I cover what's happening with Microsoft Azure in just 10 minutes,...	0:06:15
10/23/2017	Cloud Tech 10 - 23rd October 2017 - AWS Cloud Service Map, Bing Custom Search, Cosmos DB and more! CloudTechTV Like keeping up with Azure but struggling to find enough time? Then this is the video for you! I'm Mark Whitby, a Cloud Solution Architect at Microsoft UK. Each week, I cover what's happening with Microsoft Azure in just 10 minutes, or...	0:04:26
10/1/2017	Azure Blob Storage: Scalable, efficient storage for PBs of unstructured data YT: Ignite Azure Blob Storage is the exa-scale object storage service for Microsoft Azure. In this session, we cover new services and features including the brand new Archival Storage tier, dramatically larger storage accounts, throughput and...	1:23:59
9/30/2017	Azure Managed Disks and Files: Great additions to your storage IT toolkit on Azure YT: Ignite Azure Disks and Files provide persistent block storage volumes and shared storage over SMB respectively for your virtual machines in Microsoft Azure. In this session, come learn about the recently released feature Managed Disks, and...	0:24:51
9/30/2017	Getting peak performance from your SQL Data Warehouse column store YT: Ignite In this session, learn the workings of the Column Store engine that powers the analytic queries in SQL Data Warehouse. Learn how you can maximize your query performance by loading into the column store optimally. The session also...	1:15:23
9/29/2017	Azure Disks: Scale, performance, and ease of use YT: Ignite Azure Disks provide highly available and durable disk storage for IaaS VMs. Azure Managed Disks are a recently released, must-have enhancement to Azure Disks. In this talk we cover best practices using managed disks for high...	1:11:40
9/28/2017	Resilient, cost effective backup and disaster recovery with Azure Blob Storage YT: Ignite Integrated solutions combining industry leading backup and DR products with Azure Storage are a very reliable, flexible, and cost effective way to meet your company's BCDR needs. In this session, we present backup and DR solution...	1:14:37
9/28/2017	Azure Blob Storage: Scalable, efficient storage for PBs of unstructured data YT: Ignite Azure Blob Storage is the exa-scale object storage service for Microsoft Azure. In this session, we cover new services and features including the brand new Archival Storage tier, dramatically larger storage accounts, throughput and...	1:23:59
9/28/2017	Design big data applications using Azure Storage YT: Ignite Azure Blob Storage is the exa-scale object storage service for Azure. In this talk, we cover the increasingly important use cases of big data applications including Hadoop, HPC, and IoT data. Blob Storage is central to building your...	1:04:28
9/28/2017	Data on Azure: The big picture YT: Ignite Microsoft Azure provides a broad range of services for working with data. Using these services well requires knowing at least a little bit about all of them. In this session, David Chappell provides a big-picture survey of Azure data...	1:12:13

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