Storage Explorer will open a webpage for you to sign in.Īfter you successfully sign in with an Azure account, the account and the Azure subscriptions associated with that account appear under ACCOUNT MANAGEMENT. Then select Next.įor more information about Azure Stack, see Connect Storage Explorer to an Azure Stack subscription or storage account. You can sign in to global Azure, a national cloud or an Azure Stack instance. In the Select Azure Environment panel, select an Azure environment to sign in to. In the Select Resource panel, select Subscription. The Connect to Azure Storage dialog opens. To connect to another account, select Add an account. In Storage Explorer, select View > Account Management or select the Manage Accounts button.ĪCCOUNT MANAGEMENT now displays all the Azure accounts you're signed in to. For more information about the specific permissions Storage Explorer requires, see the Azure Storage Explorer troubleshooting guide. If you have permissions only at the data layer, consider choosing the Sign in using Azure Active Directory (Azure AD) option when attaching to a resource. This means that you need Azure Active Directory (Azure AD) permissions to access your storage account, the containers in the account, and the data in the containers. To fully access resources after you sign in, Storage Explorer requires both management (Azure Resource Manager) and data layer permissions. Attach to an individual Azure Storage resource.Sign in to Azure to access your subscriptions and their resources.
Storage Explorer provides several ways to connect to Azure resources:
To download and install Storage Explorer, see Azure Storage Explorer. tar.gz installation might work on other distributions, but only these listed ones are officially supported.įor more help installing Storage Explorer on Linux, see Linux dependencies in the Azure Storage Explorer troubleshooting guide. The following distributions of Linux support. tar.gz, you must install dependencies manually.
You can connect Storage Explorer to your system's password manager by running the following command: snap connect storage-explorer:password-manager-service :password-manager-service You might have to connect to a password manager manually. Storage Explorer requires the use of a password manager. The Storage Explorer snap installs all of its dependencies and updates when new versions are published to the Snap Store.įor supported distributions, see the snapd installation page. We recommend Snap Store for this installation. Storage Explorer is available in the Snap Store for most common distributions of Linux. The following versions of macOS support Storage Explorer:
Use this option if you have a URI to Azure Data Lake Store.The following versions of Windows support Storage Explorer:įor all versions of Windows, Storage Explorer requires.
If you have a shared access signature URI to a blob container, file share, queue, or table, use it to attach to the resource. Storage Explorer supports both key and shared access signature connection strings. Use this option if you have a connection string to a storage account. If you have permissions only at the data layer, use this option to add a blob container or an Azure Data Lake Storage Gen2 Blob storage container. There are several ways to attach to a resource in Storage Explorer: