Technical Requirements

To follow along with the hands-on material, you will need the following:

• Azure Storage Explorer must be installed, as discussed in Chapter 7, Copying Data To and From Azure.
• Access to an Azure subscription with owner or contributor privileges. If you do not have access to one, you can set up a student account for free: https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/free/.
• PowerShell 5.1 or later installed on a Windows PC or PowerShell Core 6.x on other operating systems to practice the labs.
• For Windows users, you will need to install .NET Framework 4.7.2 or later using the following link: https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/dotnet/framework/install.
• Where PowerShell is not installed or available, https://shell.azure.com can be used as a browser-based shell.
• Installation of the Az PowerShell module, which can be performed by running the following in an administrative PowerShell session:

  Set-ExecutionPolicy -ExecutionPolicy RemoteSigned -Scope CurrentUser...