The Azure File Storage Connector can be configured using the Aspire Admin UI. It requires the following entities to be created:

• Credential
• Connection
• Connector
• Seed

Create Credential 

1. On the Aspire Admin UI go to the credentials page
2. All existing credentials will be listed. Click on the new button
3. Enter the new credential description.
4. Select Azure File Storage from the Type list.
   1. Storage Connection String: Azure Storage Connection String.

Create Connection 

1. On the Aspire Admin UI go to the connections page
2. All existing connections will be listed. Click on the new button
3. Enter the new connection description. 
4. Select Azure File Storage from the Type list.
   1. Scan Recursively: Select if sub-folder are to be scanned
   2. Scan Excluded Items: If selected, the scanner will scan sub items of container items that have been excluded by a pattern (because it matches an exclude pattern or because it doesn't match an include pattern)
   3. Include patterns: Specify regex display URL patterns to include
   4. Exclude patterns: Specify regex display URL patterns to exclude

Create Connector Instance

For the creation of the Connector object using the Admin UI check this page.

Create Seed 

1. On the Aspire Admin UI go to the seeds page Image Added
2. All existing seed will be listed. Click on the new button Image Added
3. Enter the new seed description.
4. Select Azure File Storage from the Type list.
   1. Collect from specific azure file share url: Azure Blob Container URL which will serve as the start of the crawl. Folders and documents underneath this URL will be automatically fetched and sent to the search engine, along with metadata and ACLs. It is recommended that the URL is encoded.
      1. Add More Azure Blob Containers: Enable this to use extra blob containers
   2. Use seeds file:  This option will allow collect paths from a supplied file location, very useful if paths will be constantly changing and controlled by a 3rd party process. Paths should be listed one per line in a form of /folder/sub-folder

      1. For Windows: D:\folder\folder1\paths.txt

      2. For Linux: /home/user/folder/folder1/paths.txt
   3. Scan Recursively: Select if sub-folder are to be scanned
   4. Scan Excluded Items: If selected, the scanner will scan sub items of container items that have been excluded by a pattern (because it matches an exclude pattern or because it doesn't match an include pattern)
   5. Include patterns: Specify regex display URL patterns to include
   6. Exclude patterns: Specify regex display URL patterns to exclude