- Creating an Azure Storage Account Golden Image Store
Overview
See Backup to the Cloud with Azure File Shares for information on configuring Azure to enable share access.
This type connects to an Azure storage account which has been configured to be accessible using the SMB protocol.
Azure shares use the SMB version 3.0 protocol. This requires that the deployment media accessing the share is WinPE10 or WinPE11-based, as WinPE3.1 does not support SMB3.0. The Site Manager server will also need to be installed on a version of Windows that supports the SMB3.0 protocol. Versions of Windows which support SMB 3.0 are:
- Windows 8 or later
- Windows Server 2012 or later
Creating an Azure Storage Account Golden Image Store
To add a golden image store to SiteDeploy, select the ‘Golden Image Stores’ heading, in the ‘Deployment’ section of the Site Manager.
In ‘Golden Image Stores’ a list of the existing golden image stores will be displayed. To add a new golden image store, select ‘Add.’
Store Type
On the first page of the 'Add Store' wizard, select 'Azure Storage Account':
Azure Share Authentication
The wizard page has fields for the share path, username, and password of the Azure share. These can be filled in directly, or the net use command generated by the Azure portal can be pasted directly into the box below to extract the share information and automatically fill in the other fields.
Configuration
On this page, additional options can be specified. These options are shown below:
| Option | Description |
| Automatically retry golden image store connection for user credential errors | This option will cause SiteDeploy to treat credential failures like normal network errors and retry the golden image store connection on credential failures. This can be useful as Windows can incorrectly report network issues as credential failures. By default, SiteDeploy will not retry credential failures automatically to prevent the possibility of locking accounts due to an incorrect password. |
| Allow X simultaneous deployments from this golden image store | This value sets the number of deployments that can be performed from backups in this golden image store simultaneously. The default value is 5, but it can be increased up to 60. More than 60 simultaneous deployments can take place if more than one golden image store is being used as the source for the deployment. |
| Custom name | A name that will be displayed in the SiteDeploy interface for this repository. f left blank, it will default to the network path of the repository. |
Once the golden image store configuration has been completed, select ‘Finish.’ SiteDeploy will then attempt to connect to the golden image store using the settings that you have specified. If SiteDeploy is unable to connect to the golden image store, an error will be displayed and can be corrected.
Once the golden image store has been added successfully, it will be shown in the list of existing golden image stores along with information about the golden image store.