Instructor: So you may have seen this Storage browser

on the left side of the storage account.

Now, it does bear some similarity

to the way that we look at containers or file shares

from the container or file share section of this.

We can see that we go into Storage browser,

we can go into Blob containers,

and here we have our first container that we created.

We can create a new container.

So it's very similar to the other interface.

One of the differences here

is that we can actually perform some file operations,

like copy and paste.

So if I wanted to copy this file into a new container,

then I could copy it here,

move to the other container, and paste it in there.

So there are some additional functions

in the storage browser.

We still have the three dots,

and we can still do things such as SAS.

And here's another clone.

So if we wanted to make a duplicate of this file,

there's a clone option within the three dots.

If I go down to the File shares, very similar,

we'll see the file share that we created.

We'll see the directory, and we'll see the files.

I can, again, copy and paste files

from within storage browser.

One of the new features in the storage browser

that doesn't exist in the file share section

of the storage account is the SAS option.

So there's three dots next to the file.

I'm gonna choose this one with the txt, say Generate SAS,

and then I can, in this case, use the key.

So one of the things, of course,

is the key has been disabled for this account.

We no longer use key, so we can't do SAS for the file share

because I've disabled it for this account.

But if we did have it, that would be where you could do it.

Now, Microsoft does have a downloadable app

called Azure Storage Explorer,

which you could do something very similar from your desktop.

It's a free download for Windows, Mac, and Linux,

and you can do these file-based manipulations

in a software application on your desktop.

So now, of course, if we're doing file shares,

you can just use the normal Windows or Linux connection

to that share just as you would a local drive.

But if you need an app to do it, you can download an app.

So anyways, that is a storage browser.

It does allow you a different view of your storage account,

including containers, file shares, queues, and tables,

and a couple of additional features

not available in the other view.