Azure Blob Index Tags – How to Enrol and start using the Blob Index Tags Feature

Sathish Nadarajan
 
Solution Architect
May 6, 2020
 
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In this article, let us have a look on how to enroll the Blob Index Tags feature. This feature is in Preview now. We can discuss about this feature in detail in the upcoming articles.

As of now, the Regions France Central and France South alone are having this feature now. It means, you have to create your Storage Account in the mentioned two regions only. The other region storage accounts were not enabled with this feature.

By default, I don’t see these new features on my tenant. Let us have a step by step procedure to enable or enroll to these new features in our tenant.

1. Login to the Azure Portal.
2. Create a Storage Account -> Container.
3. Try upload a File in the Blob.

4. On the above Property Pane, we will not be seeing the Blob Index Tags. Because, this feature is not yet Enabled on my tenant.
5. Now, let us Execute the below PowerShell commands.

Connect-AzureRmAccount

Register-AzureRmProviderFeature -FeatureName BlobIndex -ProviderNamespace Microsoft.Storage

Register-AzureRMResourceProvider -ProviderNamespace Microsoft.Storage

6. After the execution, the status will be as below.

7. Let us wait for an hour. Because, it took an hour for me to get this reflected on the screen.
8. Now, when I try upload any file, I will get the Blob Tags in the property Pane. I am able to see the new property called Blob Index Tags.

We can see in detail in the upcoming article about the usage of this.

Note: We can use the CLI as well to enable the features. The commands are as below.

az feature register –namespace Microsoft.Storage –name BlobIndex
az provider register –namespace ‘Microsoft.Storage’

Happy Coding
Sathish Nadarajan

Category : Azure, BLOB, Storage

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Sathish Nadarajan
 
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Sathish is a Microsoft MVP for SharePoint (Office Servers and Services) having 15+ years of experience in Microsoft Technologies. He holds a Masters Degree in Computer Aided Design and Business ...read more
 

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