Microsoft Azure Storage and Database Part 10 – Configure Stored Access Policy Using PowerShell

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In one of our last article we have discussed how to configure Stored Access Policy and SAS based on Stored Access Policy. Today in this article, we will discuss how to configure Stored Access Policy using PowerShell.

Previous Azure series :

1. Learn Basics Of Azure Networking In 60 Hours
2. Learn Basic Of Azure Active Directory And Azure Identity And Access Management
3. Azure DevOps – Learn at one place

If you have missed our previous articles on Azure Storage and Database Series, please check it in following links.

Part 1 – Overview Of Azure Storage and Database

Part 2 – Azure Storage Account

Part 3 – Azure Blob Storage

Part 4 – Work With Azure Blob Storage

Part 5 – Storage Explorer For Azure Storage

Part 6 – Azure Blob Storage – Snapshot Using Storage Explorer

Part 7 – Azure Blob Storage – Shared Access Signature (SAS)

Part 8 – Secure Azure Storage Using Stored Access Policy

Part 9 – Secure Azure Storage Using RBAC

Next Article : Part 11 – Get Shared Access Signature (SAS) Using PowerShell

Let’s check through Azure Portal, if we have any Stored Access Policy exist. As we can see in the following figure, I have one Stored Access Policy, which we have created in our previous lab.

Now we will open Window PowerShell and execute following commands as showing in the following figure.

$StartTime = Get-Date
$EndTime = $startTime.AddDays(4)
$ctx4 = New-AzStorageContext -ConnectionString “DefaultEndpointsProtocol=https;AccountName=kj21storageacount;AccountKey=S4bSWdLylyTXoZwDzUh+zAVapA/f2S821gjNj24oqdzaFpR2ePVd7ApfWJEoyxVNbvkk9NpHV/BDxbF8Emjg2g==;EndpointSuffix=core.windows.net”
New-AzStorageContainerStoredAccessPolicy -Context $ctx4 -Container “kj-container” -Policy “FourDays-rwdl-Access_KJ-Container” -Permission rwdl -StartTime $StartTime -ExpiryTime $EndTime

When I was trying to configure Stored Access Policy, I have come across couple of issues. Followings are the details of those issues.

• The Specified Resource Does Not Exist – Status : 404 – ErrorCoad : ResourceNotFound
• Type Cast Issue – Cannot convert the Microsoft.WindowsAzure.Commands Storage.AzureStorageContext

But after fixing those issue, when i execute the above command, it successfully created the new Stored Access Policy.

In the following figure it shows that we have the second Stored Access Policy successfully created.

I hope this is informative to you. Please let me know if I missed anything important or if my understanding is not up to the mark.

Next Article : Part 11 – Get Shared Access Signature (SAS) Using PowerShell

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