Desktop application for handling data in storage accounts that already exist, such as blobs and their tiers, file shares, tables, queues and SAS URLs; creating a storage account isn't possible from it.
Also called Storage Explorer.
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Terms in this definition
- General-purpose v1
The older storage account kind (
Storage), which lacks access tiers, Archive and premium file shares and retires on 13 October 2026. Converting to ZRS requires first upgrading to GPv2, a one-way change. - AGDLP
Nesting pattern: users go into global groups, which go into domain local groups, which receive the permissions. AGUDLP adds universal groups for forests with several domains.
- Serial Attached SCSI
SAS for short: the interface typically found on server drives and shared JBOD enclosures; Storage Spaces handles it alongside NVMe and SATA. Don't mix it up with Azure's shared access signatures.
- Storage account
The top-level resource in Azure Storage, giving a unique namespace for table, queue, file and blob data. Location, performance and kind are set when it is created and cannot change.