Setting up Azure Blob Storage
Continia Expense Management provides strong document file archiving capabilities with easy integration with Azure Blob Storage. To begin using Azure Blob Storage, follow the processes described here in the given order.
To set up a storage account and container
To set up an Azure Blob Storage account and container, see Create an Azure storage account and Authorize access to data in Azure Storage (Microsoft articles).
Expense Management doesn't support shared access signatures (SAS) in Azure Blob Storage, therefore you must enter a storage account access key in the Storage Account Key field.
Important
It's strongly recommended that you enable blob soft delete for your Azure Blob Storage accounts, as this allows you to restore any documents or files that were deleted or overwritten by accident.
Warning
It's crucial that your Continia application has full read/write/delete access to the relevant blob container. For example, configuring access policies with time-based retention isn't supported, and neither are immutability and legal hold.
To set up Expense Management
To set up the solution for Azure Blob Storage:
- Search
for and select Expense Management Setup. - Under General > Document Storage Type, click Azure Blob Storage to open the Azure Blob Storage settings group.
- In the fields Storage Account Name, Storage Account Key, and Blob Container Name, enter the corresponding values from when you set up the storage account and container.
Note
Expense Management only supports Azure Blob Storage for newer versions of Microsoft Dynamics NAV/Business Central (NAV 2013 or later).
For Azure Blob Storage to work, the Dynamics NAV/Business Central service tier must be configured to use the TLS 1.2 security protocol.
Related information
Microsoft's article on Azure Blob Storage
The Microsoft Azure portal
Archive file server requirements