Technical Requirements

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

• Azure Storage Explorer, which is installed as shown 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 if you’re using another operating system.
• .NET Framework 4.7.2 or later, which can be installed using the following link: https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/dotnet/framework/install.
• If PowerShell is not installed or available, https://shell.azure.com can be used as a browser-based shell.
• The Az PowerShell module, which can be installed by running the following in an administrative PowerShell session:

  Set-ExecutionPolicy -ExecutionPolicy RemoteSigned -Scope CurrentUser
  Install-Module -Name Az -Scope CurrentUser...