Can not find your Azure storage credential

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In this Azure PowerShell article, we will discuss the syntax of the Get-AzStorageFile PowerShell command and how to fix the error “can not find your Azure storage credential. Please set current storage account using “set-azsubscription” or set the “azure_storage_connection_string” environment variable.” which I got while executing the Get-AzStorageFile PowerShell command for one of the critical requirements.

Can not find your Azure storage credential

I was executing the PowerShell command below.

Get-AzStorageFile -ShareName "demotstestb4c6"

After executing the Get-AzStorageFile PowerShell command, I got the following complete error message.

Get-AzStorageFile : Can not find your azure storage credential. Please set current 
storage account using "Set-AzSubscription" or set the 
"AZURE_STORAGE_CONNECTION_STRING" environment variable.
At line:1 char:1
+ Get-AzStorageFile -ShareName "demotstestb4c6"
+ ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
    + CategoryInfo          : InvalidArgument: (:) [Get-AzStorageFile], ArgumentExcep 
   tion
    + FullyQualifiedErrorId : ArgumentException,Microsoft.WindowsAzure.Commands.Stora 
   ge.File.Cmdlet.GetAzureStorageFile

You can see the same error message below.

Can not find your Azure storage credential

Solution

To fix the error, I had to pass the storage context along with the Get-AzStorageFile PowerShell command. I have executed the PowerShell script below.

Connect-AzAccount
$mystrgActRG = "DEMORG2"
$mystrgActName = "demorg2913f"
$mystrgActKey = (Get-AzStorageAccountKey -ResourceGroupName $mystrgActRG -AccountName $mystrgActName).Value[0]
$mystrgActctx = New-AzStorageContext -StorageAccountName $mystrgActName -StorageAccountKey $mystrgActKey
Get-AzStorageFile -ShareName "demotstestb4c6" -Context $mystrgActctx

After executing the above script, I got the expected output as below

CloudFileDirectory       : Microsoft.Azure.Storage.File.CloudFileDirectory
LastModified             : 1/19/2023 7:14:44 AM +00:00
ShareDirectoryClient     : Azure.Storage.Files.Shares.ShareDirectoryClient
ShareDirectoryProperties : Azure.Storage.Files.Shares.Models.ShareDirectoryProperties
ListFileProperties       : Azure.Storage.Files.Shares.Models.ShareFileItem
Context                  : Microsoft.WindowsAzure.Commands.Storage.AzureStorageContext
Name                     : data


CloudFileDirectory       : Microsoft.Azure.Storage.File.CloudFileDirectory
LastModified             : 1/19/2023 7:13:09 AM +00:00
ShareDirectoryClient     : Azure.Storage.Files.Shares.ShareDirectoryClient
ShareDirectoryProperties : Azure.Storage.Files.Shares.Models.ShareDirectoryProperties
ListFileProperties       : Azure.Storage.Files.Shares.Models.ShareFileItem
Context                  : Microsoft.WindowsAzure.Commands.Storage.AzureStorageContext
Name                     : LogFiles


CloudFileDirectory       : Microsoft.Azure.Storage.File.CloudFileDirectory
LastModified             : 1/19/2023 7:13:09 AM +00:00
ShareDirectoryClient     : Azure.Storage.Files.Shares.ShareDirectoryClient
ShareDirectoryProperties : Azure.Storage.Files.Shares.Models.ShareDirectoryProperties
ListFileProperties       : Azure.Storage.Files.Shares.Models.ShareFileItem
Context                  : Microsoft.WindowsAzure.Commands.Storage.AzureStorageContext
Name                     : site

You can check out the same output as below

Get-AzStorageFile

Wrapping Up

In this Azure PowerShell article, we discussed the syntax of the Get-AzStorageFile PowerShell command and how to resolve the error “Get-AzStorageFile: Can not find your Azure storage credential.” I hope this information helps. Thanks for reading this article !!!

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