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How Do I Obtain Credentials for Accessing Microsoft Azure?

Obtain Storage Accounts and Keys

  1. On the Azure portal, click Storage accounts and select the storage account that owns the data you want to migrate.

  2. Under Security + network, choose Access keys. Your account access keys appear, as well as the complete connection string for each key.
  3. Click Show to show your access keys and connection strings and to enable buttons to copy the values.

    You can use either of the two keys to access Azure Storage, but in general it is a good practice to use the first key, and reserve the use of the second key for when you are rotating keys.

Obtaining a Shared Access Signature

  1. On the Azure portal, click Storage accounts and select the storage account that owns the data you want to migrate.

  2. Under Security & network, choose Shared access signature and set the mandatory parameters listed in Table 1 Setting parameters. Set other parameters as needed.
    Table 1 Configuring parameters

    Parameter

    Configuration

    Allowed services

    Select at least Blob.

    Allowed resource types

    Select at least Container and Object.

    Allowed permissions

    Select at least Read and List. If you want to migrate archived objects, also select Write.

    Start and expiry date/time

    Ensure that the connection string does not expire before the migration is complete.
  3. Click Generate SAS and connection string. The connection string, SAS token, and Blob service SAS URL are displayed. Click the copy icon next to the connection string to copy the connection string.

    You can use the connection string to access Azure Storage.

Parent topic: Storage Migration