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How to provide a storage for IT department testing and training

INTRODUCTON

What Is Storage Account : Storage account is a container that contains all your storage objects that provides scalability, accessibility, durability and security for your data's

RESOURCE GROUP: It's Your Storage Container Where Similar Items Is Kept Together

Create a resource group and a storage account
STEPS TO CREATING A RESOURCE GROUP AND STORAGE ACCOUNT

STEP 1 In the Azure portal, search for and select Resource groups

Resource groups

STEP 2 Select + Create

Select + Create

STEP 3 Give your resource group a name

Resource Group Name

STEP 4 Select a region

Select a region

SSTEP 5 Select Review and create to validate the resource group

Select Review and create

STEP 6 Select Create to deploy the resource group

Select Create

Create And Deploy A Storage Account To Support Testing And Training

STEP 1 In the Azure portal, search for and select Storage account

Storage account

STEP 2 Select + Create

Select + Create

STEP 3 On the Basics tab, select your Resource group

Resource group

STEP 4 Provide A Storage Account Name

Storage Account Name

STEP 5 Set the Performance to Standard

Performance to Standard

STEP 6 Select Review, and then Create

Select Review, and then Create

STEP 7 Create

create

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Configure Simple Settings In The Storage Account
STEPS TO CONFIGURE SETTING IN THE STORAGE ACCOUNT

STEP 1 Select The Redundancy

select the Redundancy

STEP 2 Select Locally-Redundant Storage

Locally-Redundant Storage

STEP 3 Save Your Changes

Save Your Changes

STEP 4 Refresh the page and notice the content only exists in the primary location

Refresh The Page

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The Storage Account Should Only Accept Requests From Secure Connections

STEP 1 In the Settings section, select the Configuration

Configuration

STEP 2 Ensure Secure transfer required is Enabled

Enabled

Developers would like the storage account to use at least TLS version

1.2. Learn more about transport layer security (TLS)

STEP 1 In the Settings section, select the Configuration Blade

Configuration

STEP 2 Ensure the Minimal TLS version is set to Version 1.2

Version 1.2

Until The Storage Is Needed Again, Disable Requests To The Storage account. Learn More About Disabling Shared Keys

STEP 1 In The Settings Section, Select The Configuration Blade

Select The Configuration

STEP 2 *Ensure Allow Storage Account key Access Is Disabled
*

Access Is Disabled

STEP 3 Be Sure To Save Your Changes

Save Your Changes

Ensure the storage account allows public access from all networks

STEP 1 In the Security + networking section, select the Networking blade

Networking blade

STEP 2 Ensure Public network access is set to Enabled from all networks

Enabled

STEP 3 Be sure to Save your changes

Save your changes

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