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author: roygara
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ms.service: storage
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ms.topic: conceptual
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ms.date: 03/03/2020
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ms.date: 03/11/2020
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ms.author: rogarana
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#Select the target subscription for the current session
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Select-AzSubscription -SubscriptionId "<your-subscription-id-here>"
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#Register the target storage account with your active directory environment under the target OU
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#Register the target storage account with your active directory environment under the target OU (for example: "OU=ComputersOU,DC=prod,DC=corp,DC=contoso,DC=com")
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#You can choose to create the identity that represents the storage account as either a Service Logon Account or Computer Account, depends on the AD permission you have and preference.
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join-AzStorageAccountForAuth -ResourceGroupName "<resource-group-name-here>" -Name "<storage-account-name-here>" -DomainAccountType "<ServiceLogonAccount|ComputerAccount>" -OrganizationalUnitName "<ou-name-here>"
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If your OU enforces password expiration, you must update the password before the maximum password age to prevent authentication failures when accessing Azure file shares. See [Update AD account password](#update-ad-account-password) for details.
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Keep the SID of the newly created account, you'll need it for the next step.
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Keep the SID of the newly created account, you'll need it for the next step. The AD identity you have just created that represent the storage account does not need to be synced to Azure AD.
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##### c. Enable the feature on your storage account
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