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In one of our previous articles we have discussed How To Restore Azure File Share From BackUp Using PowerShell. Today in this article we will discuss How To Address One issue Raised During Register Recovery Service Vault.

Tool Installation Articles :

1. Configure Azure Command Line Interface ( Azure CLI) On Windows
2. Configure PowerShell For Microsoft Azure Az Module On Windows

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

Part 10 – Configure Stored Access Policy Using PowerShell

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

Part 12 – Azure Blob Storage – Host Static Website In Azure Storage Account

Part 13 – Azure Blob Storage – Work With AzCopy Tool

Part 14 – Azure File Service – Overview

Part 15 – Azure File Service – Mount File Share On Window Server Using PowerShell

Part 16 – Azure File Service – Mount File Share On Window Server Using File Share URL

Part 17 – Azure File Service – Create File Share Using Power Shell

Part 18 – Azure File Service – Upload And Copy Files In File Share Using Power Shell

Part 19 – Azure File Service – BackUp And Restore Azure Files From Recovery Services Vault

Part 20 – Azure File Service – BackUp And Restore Azure Files From The File Share Pane

Part 21 – Azure File Service – Create And Manage File Share Snapshots Using PowerShell

Part 23 – Azure File Service – Restore Azure Files From Back Up Using PowerShell

Part 24 – Azure File Service – Storage Sync Service

Part 25 – Azure File Service – Storage Sync Service – Configure Azure File Sync – 1

Part 26 – Azure File Service – Storage Sync Service – Configure Azure File Sync – 2

Part 27 – Difference Between Azure Blog Storage And Azure File Storage

Part 28 – Azure Queue Storage – Overview

Part 29 – Azure Queue Storage – Store And Process Messages In Azure Queue

Issue Details

In one of our previous lab exercise, I was taking backup of Azure File Share using PowerShell. After configuring backup policy, when I was trying to Enable the Backup and register my selected Storage Account with my new Vault, I got one error on my PowerShell window that says ‘Enable-AzRecoveryServicesBackupProtection : ‘containerName’ cannot be null null. We can see the error details in the following figure.

I have move around through the Google for some time and one Storage Account Can Be Register With Only One Vault At A Time. Then I remember that, the storage account I am using in my script now has already register with a different Vault during one of my previous lab exercise. So I went to my previous vault to check if it is still registered and as we can see in the following figure it is already registered. So I thought, I could delete my old Vault as my old Service Vault is not required any more.

Then I tried to delete my old Recovery Service Vault but as we can see in the following figure, it doesn’t allow me to do so because, it found existing resource within the vault and it asked to first unregister the resource and then try to delete.

Unregister A Storage Account

As per Microsoft recommendation to protect our file shares in a particular storage account by using a different Recovery Services vault, first stop protection for all file shares in that storage account. Then unregister the account from the current Recovery Services vault used for protection.

Let’s go through the following steps to unregister the storage account.

Step 1- Open the Recovery Services vault where our storage account is registered and where we want to unregister our storage account.

Step 2 – On the Overview pane of selected recovery service vault, click the Backup Infrastructure option under the Manage section as showing in the following figure.

Step 3 – It will open the Backup Infrastructure pane as showing in the following figure.

Step 4 – Click Storage Accounts under the Azure Storage Accounts section, it will list all registered storage accounts s showing in the following figure.

Step 5 – Then Select the storage account we want to unregister and Right-click the storage account and click Unregister as showing in the following figure.

Step 6 – Then provide storage account name and region why we want to delete it and click Delete button to complete the unregister process.

In the above figures it shows that, we have successfully unregister the storage account. After unregister the storage account, I tried to execute the following script to Enable back up protection.

Enable-AzRecoveryServicesBackupProtection -StorageAccountName "kjstorageaccount1" -Name "manas-ps-file-share" -Policy $ManasafsPol

As we can see in the above figure the issue is fixed and the command executed successfully.

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