Can not find your Azure storage credential

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.

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

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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Rajkishore

I am Rajkishore, and I am a Microsoft Certified IT Consultant. I have over 14 years of experience in Microsoft Azure and AWS, with good experience in Azure Functions, Storage, Virtual Machines, Logic Apps, PowerShell Commands, CLI Commands, Machine Learning, AI, Azure Cognitive Services, DevOps, etc. Not only that, I do have good real-time experience in designing and developing cloud-native data integrations on Azure or AWS, etc. I hope you will learn from these practical Azure tutorials. Read more.