Azure Storage |
Description
Windows Azure Storage provides secure, scalable, and accessible storage services that are available anytime and anywhere on demand. It offers several storage types to support different kinds of storage needs, from structured to unstructured data.
With the “cloud”, we no longer need to buy and maintain physical servers. However, using cloud-based storage, IT professionals will have to spend time on manual processes to manage the resource. That’s where Automate can help. Automate can expand the benefits of cloud storage by offering cloud automation with a comprehensive set of Windows Azure Storage activities.
Available Activities
The list of activities for this action are arranged below in alphabetical order. For more information about a specific activity, click the associated link.
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Clears all messages from the specified queue. |
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Copies a blob to a destination container. |
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Creates a read-only snapshot of a blob container. |
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Creates a new public or private container under the specified account and optionally sets user-defined metadata for the container . |
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Creates a new queue under the given account. |
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Creates a unique session which can be used to associate several Azure Storage activities. This allows a single task the ability to execute numerous Azure Storage operations simultaneously. |
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Creates a new table under the given account. |
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Deletes the specified blob from a given container. |
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Marks the specified container for deletion. The container and any blobs contained within it are later deleted during garbage collection. |
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Deletes a range of entities in a table. |
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Deletes a specific entity from a table. |
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Deletes a specific message from the queue based on the message ID and post receipt value. |
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Deletes a queue and all the messages contained in it. |
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Deletes the specified table and any data it contains. |
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Downloads a blob's contents to a file or existing variable. |
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Download one or more entities to a comma-separated values (.csv) file or comma-delimited text (.txt) file. |
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Ends a session started by the Create session activity. |
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Retrieves all queue messages and populates a dataset with results. |
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Gets the permissions currently set for the container. This includes public access permissions and any shared access policies it may have. |
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Gets a single message from the queue and optionally specifies how long it should be reserved before it becomes visible. Can also be used to delete a message after retrieval, eliminating the need to execute a Delete message step. |
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Creates a URL for public access and populates a variable with the resulting URI. |
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Inserts one or more new entities into a table. |
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Enumerates the list of blobs under the specified container. |
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Retrieves all storage account containers or specific containers whose names begin with the prefix indicated and populates a dataset with relevant data, such as container name, URI, last modified date and metadata. |
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Lists all entities in a table account and populates a dataset with the results. |
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Lists all of the queues in a given storage account or a collection of queues with names that begin with the specified prefix and populates a dataset with results. |
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Returns an enumerable collection of all table names or a collection of table names that begin with the specified prefix for the storage account and populates a dataset with the results. |
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Retrieves a message from the front of the queue, without changing the message visibility. |
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Adds a new message to the back of the message queue. A timeout can also be specified to make the message invisible until the visibility timeout expires. |
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Renames and/or moves a blob to a new container by copying the original blob and its contents to the specified container and new blob name, and deletes the original blob. |
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Sets system properties and user-defined metadata on the specified blob container. |
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Sets user-defined metadata on the specified queue or clears a queue of existing metadata. |
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Updates public access permissions, shared access policies and one or more user-defined name-value pairs for the specified container. |
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Updates an existing entity in a table. This activity replaces the entire entity and can be used to remove properties. |
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Uploads a file or specified text to a blob container. |
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Uploads a .CSV (Comma-Separated Values) file to the specified table storage. |