Storage
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SFTP (and FTPS) protocol support for Azure Files
Exposing the SFTP protocol would facilitate a bunch of scenarios where today 2 VMs (with all the management overhead that implies) are required.
5,770 votesThanks for the feedback! We are interested in collecting feedback on this request – please vote for it if this is something you like to see.
We’re also interested in learning more what people want to use the SFTP/FTPS for and which protocol they prefer. Please feel free to leave us a comment letting us know more detail!
Thanks,
Will Gries
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make it possible to use SSL on blob storage using custom domains
Currently you can use SSL but you have to user the standard URL. You can create a CNAME to your storage account but most browsers complain that the traffic was rerouted and is possibly an attack. There should be a way to install a domain certificate to your containers.
4,943 votesYou can now use the Azure CDN to access blobs with custom domains over HTTPS. See the following article for instructions on how to do so: https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/storage/storage-https-custom-domain-cdn. Having talked to a number of customers, we concluded that this solution addresses many scenarios where the need for HTTPS access to blobs with custom domains exists.
Native Azure Storage support for using SSL to access blobs at custom domains is still on our backlog. We would love to hear about your scenarios where using the Azure CDN is not an acceptable solution, either by posting on this thread or sending us an email at azurestoragefeedback@microsoft.com.
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Static website hosting in Azure blob storage
This would require supporting default file to render and somekind of redirect from root to a particular container.
2,280 votesThank you for your feedback. We are currently in public preview of static website hosting for Azure Storage to enable this scenario. Check out the blog post here for more details: https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/blog/azure-storage-static-web-hosting-public-preview. The feature set includes support for default documents and custom error documents for HTTP status code 404.
For any further questions, or to discuss your specific scenario, send us an email at azurestoragefeedback@microsoft.com.
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Enable immediate sync after changes on the Azure file share for Azure File Sync
When I make a change on my server endpoint (Windows File Server), Azure File Sync initiates a sync session very quickly after file save, however for changes on the cloud endpoint (Azure file share), I have to wait at least 24 hours to have changes get synced down to my server endpoints.
Please invest in features to initiate a sync session immediately after changes are made cloud-side, or at least increase the interval of sync from the Azure file share.
1,975 votesAs you mentioned, we initiate a change detection job once every 24 hours to enumerate the Azure file share and scan for changes. This is required for the Azure file share because Azure Files currently lacks a change notification mechanism like Windows Server has. Long term we will add this capability and have automatic immediate sync.
There is now a way to trigger sync to happen on files that are placed directly in the Azure File share. With this new cmdlet you can point sync to particular files or directories and have it look for changes right then. This is intended for scenarios where some type of automated process in Azure is doing the file edits or migrations are done by an admin (like moving a new directory of files into the share). For end-user changes, the best thing to do is install Azure File Sync in an IaaS VM…
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Add TableStorage LINQ query support for Select, Count and Contains
Critical functions such as Select, Count and Contains are not currently available when querying TableStorage data.
If I only want a total number of rows that match a certain criteria I have no choice but to retrieve the data, count it and throw it away.
Adding support for Select would also help with heavy queries by only returning the data selected from a query.
Contains would be useful for searching. Using the Compare function is annoying.
1,698 votesThis work is on our backlog and currently under consideration. We will update here if this changes.
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Support secondary Indexes
Need to be able to sort on something other than the rowkey
1,408 votesWe understand this is a top customer ask and as such it is currently on our backlog to be prioritized. We will update when the status changes.
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Global File Locking for Azure File Sync
For Azure File Sync on multiple geographically diverse servers, lock files across the enterprise to eliminate conflicts.
For example, a user in Chicago opens a spreadsheet on a local server, and that server is running Azure File Sync to a share that is also mounted by a server in Atlanta also running Azure File Sync. The file lock for the spreadsheet should be global, preventing write access in Atlanta when opened in Chicago.
See Panzura.com for reference.
1,344 votesWe’re working on global file locking and will share more once we’re ready to start the preview program.
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Provide Time to live feature for Blobs
If I need to provide a user (or external system) some data (blob) which might be outcome of some processing (or other) and it has some expiration time I'd like to just put a new blob and set TTL property with TimeSpan (or set absolute DateTime). When the period is over my blob is deleted. So I don't have to pay for it and don't need to spin up some service for doing it myself.
1,334 votesThank you for your feedback. We are currently in public preview of blob storage lifecycle management. The feature set offers a rich, rule-based policy engine which you can use to transition your data to the best access tier and to expire data at the end of its lifecycle. See our post on the Azure Blog to get started: https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/blog/azure-blob-storage-lifecycle-management-public-preview/preview/.
For any further questions, or to discuss your specific scenario, send us an email at DLMFeedback@microsoft.com.
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Allow Access to file storage configuration to use alternate port instead of often blocked port 445
Allow Access to file storage configuration to use alternate port instead of often blocked port 445
1,302 votesHi folks,
We are evaluating what we can do to address this feedback and would very much appreciate your continued votes and suggestions on it.
One alternative to mounting the share on-premises over port 445 is Azure File Sync, which enables you to create a cache of an Azure file share on an on-premises Windows Server. Azure File Sync only sends data over the Azure Files HTTPS (using the File REST APIs). You can learn more about Azure File Sync here: https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/storage/files/storage-sync-files-planning
Please don’t hesitate to reach out if you have any additional questions!
Thanks,
Will Gries
Program Manager, Azure Files -
Azure Control Panel functionality for snapshots or incremental backup
I know that data is replicated but that doesn't protect against logical errors, accidental removal by admin or hacker screwing up the data.
So I really would like to see this done natively from Azure instead of building my own backup systems like these:
http://blogs.msdn.com/b/windowsazurestorage/archive/2010/04/30/protecting-your-blobs-against-application-errors.aspx1,084 votesThank you for your feedback. We view this ask as a set of related features.
Soft delete for blobs enables you to save and recover your data where blobs or blob snapshots are deleted. It does not protect against container or account deletion. This feature is currently generally available. You can see the announcement here: https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/blog/soft-delete-for-azure-storage-blobs-ga/ and the full documentation here: https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/storage/blobs/storage-blob-soft-delete
Object versioning will also offer object-level protection, and will offer a few incremental improvements to soft delete. Specifically, it will make recovery of deleted data easier. This feature is planned for the coming year.
Container soft delete will protect against container-level deletion and modification. This feature is planned for the coming year as well.
Native support for blob backup will protect against account-level deletion and modification, and is currently on our backlog.
We will provide updates when they become available. For any further questions, or to discuss your…
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Add ability to view Azure Table size/entity count (rows)
Hi Mike,
I've created this idea as suggested on the forums: http://social.msdn.microsoft.com/Forums/en/windowsazure/thread/ea18ae29-36a3-42c6-8420-877216efbd42
One of the big challenges in adopting azure table storage over traditional SQL storage is the ability to know how much data is stored and how it is being used.
Being able to break size/rows down by partition would be invaluable when trying to modify / optimize Partition & Row keys. (Given data doesn't always grow as we would expect, and new bottlenecks can & will emerge).
In addition the ability to view the usage data per table / partition would be fantastic.
Obviously there are ways of…
1,093 votesWe understand this is a top customer ask and as such it is currently on our backlog to be prioritized. We will update when the status changes.
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Rename blobs without needing to copy them
Copying blobs in order to rename them is a heavy operation, especially when the blob is big, or when you need to change many files, such as when changing a directory name.
1,040 votesOur apologies for not updating this ask earlier. Renaming Blobs is on our backlog, but is unlikely to be released in the coming year. Today, you can use the “Copy Blob” API as a workaround.
Using the Azure Files service you can address Azure Storage like a network share using the SMB2.1 protocol. This enables usage of normal Windows API’s to rename files and directories. You can get started with the Files service by visiting https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/storage/storage-dotnet-how-to-use-files.
For any further questions, or to discuss your specific scenario, send us an email at azurestoragefeedback@microsoft.com.
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Provide me with full text search on table storage
Does what it says on the tin....really need better search capabilities over azure table storage.
932 votesA common need for users of Azure Table Storage is searching data in a Table using query patterns other than those that Table Storage provides efficiently, namely key lookups and partition scans. Using Azure Search, you can index and search Table Storage data (using full text search, filters, facets, custom scoring, etc.) and capture incremental changes in the data on a schedule, all without writing any code. To learn more, check out Indexing Azure Table Storage with Azure Search: https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/search/search-howto-indexing-azure-tables
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Ability to delete from Table Storage by Partition
There is no good way to delete multiple entries in Table Storage. All you can do is delete one at a time. For logging tables this can become VERY expensive. It would be great if we had the ability to use Partitions as a way to delete logical groups of data in Table Storage in a single transaction.
This would allow for a partitioning scheme for grouping data in units that can easily be deleted. For example, logging data in WADLogsTable or rolling tables of data captured on a given partition can be archived easily and cleaned up.
753 votesWe understand this is a top customer ask and as such it is currently on our backlog to be prioritized. We will update when the status changes.
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Allow adding headers to static website hosting in blob storage
The static website hosting is fantastic, to make this feature even more awesome please allow adding of custom headers like CSP, HSTS etc secure the static website.
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Enable Storage Account Firewall to access from App Service without ASE
Currently it is not possible to configure storage account firewall to accept requests from App Services event whitelist outbound IP addresses of Appservices.
It is great if above is possible531 votes -
Add NFS Protocol Support Azures Files Shares OR Support old CFS clients
Azure files shares are awesome. It basically provides a great PAAS NAS for a group of Azure VMs, I can't overstate how useful this feature is.
It's still in preview, but there is a significant problem that won't get added by the time it goes GA. The problem is that many Linux CIFS clients that come on standard builds won't support it. My example is that neither Oracle Enterprise Linux 6.4, nor 7.0 support it (using the Azure templates), even after installing the latest supported CIFS clients.
Since Azure Files shares are basically like NAS for Azure VM's, please realize…
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Add an atomic Increment operator on table storage. See MongoDB for example.
It's hard to create pre-aggregated counters in table storage when using multiple workers. For example, a page hit counter will have wrong counts if incremented by pulling work from a queue and updating an entity representing the page using multiple workers.
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Please implement static IP address or Reserved IP address for Blob, file, table, queue services in Storage Account.
We use IP address filtering on our firewall settings in our company network. Now, we need to download IP address range which Microsoft Azure uses once a week and reconfigure our firewall settings if they have any change. That is burden on us. Please implement static IP address or Reserved IP address for Blob, file, table, queue services in Storage Account.
395 votesThank you for your feedback. Providing static or reserved IP addresses for storage accounts is on our backlog but there is no ETA we can share at this time. We will provide updates when they become available. For any further questions, or to discuss your specific scenario, send us an email at azurestoragefeedback@microsoft.com.
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Enable symlinks in Azure Files (SMB)
There is no posibility to create symlinks on Azure Files Samba Shares. It must be enabled on Samba server. Maybe it should be an option?
388 votesThank you for your feedback. Symlinks is in Azure Files backlog but we do not have specific timeline to share yet.
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