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articles/storage/files/storage-how-to-use-files-portal.md

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author: khdownie
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ms.service: azure-file-storage
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ms.topic: quickstart
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ms.date: 08/29/2024
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ms.date: 04/08/2025
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1. On the menu at the top of the **File shares** page, select **+ File share**. The **New file share** page drops down.
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1. In **Name**, type *myshare*. File share names must be all lower-case letters, numbers, and single hyphens, and must begin and end with a lower-case letter or number. The name can't contain two consecutive hyphens. For details about naming file shares and files, see [Naming and Referencing Shares, Directories, Files, and Metadata](/rest/api/storageservices/Naming-and-Referencing-Shares--Directories--Files--and-Metadata).
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1. Leave **Transaction optimized** selected for **Access tier**.
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1. Select the **Backup** tab. By default, [backup is enabled](../../backup/backup-azure-files.md) when you create an Azure file share using the Azure portal. If you want to disable backup for the file share, uncheck the **Enable backup** checkbox. If you want backup enabled, you can either leave the defaults or create a new Recovery Services Vault in the same region and subscription as the storage account. To create a new backup policy, select **Create a new policy**.
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1. Select the **Backup** tab. By default, [backup is enabled](../../backup/backup-azure-files.md) when you create an Azure file share using the Azure portal. If you want to disable backup for the file share, uncheck the **Enable backup** checkbox. If you want backup enabled, you can either leave the defaults or create a new Recovery Services Vault in the same region and subscription as the storage account. The Recovery Services Vault stores the recovery points created over time and provides an interface to perform backup and restore related operations. If there's no existing Recovery Services Vault, the portal will default to **Create new**. To create a new backup policy, select **Create a new policy**.
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:::image type="content" source="media/storage-how-to-use-files-portal/create-file-share-backup.png" alt-text="Screenshot showing how to enable or disable file share backup." border="true":::
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1. Select **Review + create** and then **Create** to create the Azure file share.
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# [PowerShell](#tab/azure-powershell)
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Now that you've created a storage account, you can create your first Azure file share by using the [New-AzRmStorageShare](/powershell/module/az.storage/New-AzRmStorageShare) cmdlet. This example creates a share named **myshare** with a quota of 1024 GiB. The quota can be a maximum of 100 TiB.
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Now that you've created a storage account, you can create an Azure file share by using the [New-AzRmStorageShare](/powershell/module/az.storage/New-AzRmStorageShare) cmdlet. This example creates a share named **myshare** with a quota of 1024 GiB. The quota can be a maximum of 100 TiB.
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# [Azure CLI](#tab/azure-cli)
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Now that you've created a storage account, you can create your first Azure file share by using the [az storage share-rm create](/cli/azure/storage/share-rm#az-storage-share-rm-create) command. This example creates a share named **myshare** with a quota of 1024 GiB. The quota can be a maximum of 100 TiB.
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Now that you've created a storage account, you can create an Azure file share by using the [az storage share-rm create](/cli/azure/storage/share-rm#az-storage-share-rm-create) command. This example creates a share named **myshare** with a quota of 1024 GiB. The quota can be a maximum of 100 TiB.
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includes/storage-files-create-storage-account-portal.md

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1. In **Region**, select the region you want to create your storage account in.
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1. In **Primary service**, select **Azure Files**.
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1. In **Performance**, keep the default value of **Standard**.
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1. In **File share billing**, keep the default value of **Pay-as-you-go file shares**.
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1. In **Redundancy**, select **Locally redundant storage (LRS)**.
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:::image type="content" source="media/storage-files-create-storage-account-portal/create-storage-account.png" alt-text="Screenshot showing how to enter the project and instance details for a storage account using the Azure portal." lightbox="media/storage-files-create-storage-account-portal/create-storage-account.png":::

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