How to setup Sharepoint site to use Azure blob storage

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Looking for advice for the following scenario: We have some 5 TB of data currently hosted on Box.com that we would like to migrate to Azure blob storage. We need some sort of content management system in front of the storage to make it easier to access, view, manage the files and are considering Sharepoint. Is it possible to setup a Sharepoint site with the files being stored on Azure blob storage? What considerations do we need to think about to plan this out effectively? Thank you, Shahab

jcgonzalezmartin · Answer

Unfortunately, SPO does not provide support to use Azure Blob Storage

shahab mushtaq · Answer

Thank you for the reply Juan. Does Sharepoint support any type of file storage in Azure?

jcgonzalezmartin · Answer

AFAIK, the answer is no

tonywilliams62 · Answer

jcgonzalezmartinAny updates on this?&nbsp; When will there possibly be something relatively easy to display Azure files or blobs within a SharePoint page and navigate the nodes/hierarchy? I have a client who stores massive files on Azure that one would never put in SharePoint, but they like the UI experience of SharePoint Online for their other files.&nbsp; They do a large number of projects each year and want to see their SP and Azure files for each project displayed within the same UI.&nbsp; Their constraints on me are that it can't have a lot of code development as they do not think they will keep or hire the talent to maintain it once we leave, and it has to be easy to set up as they create new projects in SharePoint. Thoughts?&nbsp;

trevor seward · Answer

SharePoint Online uses ABS itself. Is there a reason you wouldn't store the data in SharePoint instead of some other file storage medium? SharePoint content management features require that the data reside in SharePoint.SharePoint itself supports up to 100GB files. Do these files exceed that limit?

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