How to Mount an Azure Files Share in Windows?

Azure Files is part of the Azure Storage offering and provides a secure and performant place to store and share files. It works just like a file folder. You can scale it to your needs, and make it as performant and redundant as you need. You can also use Azure Files as a file share that you mount in your operating system.

Prerequisites

1. Azure subscription
2. Azure Storage Account
3. Computer running Windows 10 or later3

We’ll start by creating an Azure Files share, which we’ll mount in Windows.

• Go to the Azure portal and navigate to your Azure Storage Account

• Click the button + File share. This opens the New file share

• Give the File share a Name

• Click Create

When the File share is created, click on it. This will show the details of the share, including its directories and files.

• Click Connect to start connecting the File share

• By default, the blade is set to Windows, which is what we need to mount the share to Windows. Leave the settings as they are and copy the script

Open Notepad and paste the script into it.

• Save the file as a mount.ps1

• Open a PowerShell

• Run the script.

• The script will tell you that it executed successfully. The script also saved your credentials in your computer, so that it will automatically reconnect to the Files shared when you restart the computer.

• Open File Explorer. You should now see the Files share as a network drive.