The Azure File Storage Connector will The Azure Files Storage Connector will crawl content from a an Azure File Storage Container repositoryrepository.
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Azure Storage is Microsoft's cloud storage solution for modern data storage scenarios.
Azure Files offer fully managed file shares in the cloud that are accessible via the industry standard Server Message Block (SMB) protocol.
Azure file shares can be mounted concurrently by cloud or on-premises deployments of Windows, Linux, and macOS.
Additionally, Azure file shares can be cached on Windows Servers with Azure File Sync for fast access near where the data is being used.
The Azure File Storage connector supports crawling the following the repositories:
Repository | Version | Connector Version |
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For the Azure File Storage connector to be able to crawl content, the Aspire Worker nodes must be run with an account with .
Azure Files Storage | All | 5.1 |
To access the Azure File Storage connector, a connection must be established to a valid Azure storage account.
Microsoft Azure storage is a service that is independent of Accenture Aspire technologies and licenses. See Create a storage account.
To access the Azure Files Storage, a connection string must be supplied. See Microsoft's Manage Storage Account Access Keys documentation for the steps on how to get the connection string.
Environment RequirementsName | Supported |
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Content Crawling | Yes |
Identity Crawling | Use Azure Identity Connector |
Snapshot-based Incrementals | Yes |
Non-snapshot-based Incrementals | No |
Document Hierarchy | Yes |
The Azure File Storage connector has the following features:
The Azure The Azure File Storage connector is able to can crawl the following objects:
Name | Type | Relevant Metadata | Content Fetch and Extraction | Description |
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The Azure File Storage Connector has the following limitations:
<Limitation 1>File Share | container | N/A | The ones that hold the directories/files. | |
Directory | container | N/A | The directories of the files. Each directory will be scanned to retrieve more directories or files. | |
File | document | Yes | The documents are held by directory/file share. |