Azure Storage Maximum Threshold for alert
Hi Azure team,
Azure Storage:
What is the maximum threshold after which azure will send notification when maximum capacity is going to be reached?
Thanks,
You can create a rule based upon capacity. The units has to be in bytes. So if you wanted to get an Alert when the storage account is at 80% of 1 TB. you would set the value to 858993459. Note not to forget to enable the storage account for Capacity Alerts.
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I found it was very strange, I prefer it's C# code, and some place "\n" missed and so is "+", as I made up all stuffs, the authentication still failed, I do not know why, here is what I did:
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static string Hash(string message, string secret)
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Anyone can help me?Hi,
Please try this code, I tested it on my side, it works fine.
String accountName = "***";
String accountKey = "***+**";
String signature = "";
String requestMethod = "POST";
String urlPath = String.Format("{0}/messages", "inputtext");
String storageServiceVersion = "2012-02-12";
String dateInRfc1123Format = DateTime.UtcNow.ToString("R", CultureInfo.InvariantCulture);
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Byte[] messageContent = utf8Encoding.GetBytes(messageText);
Int32 messageLength = messageContent.Length;
String canonicalizedHeaders = String.Format(
"x-ms-date:{0}\nx-ms-version:{1}",
dateInRfc1123Format,
storageServiceVersion);
String canonicalizedResource = String.Format("/{0}/{1}", accountName, urlPath);
String stringToSign = String.Format(
"{0}\n\n\n{1}\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n{2}\n{3}",
requestMethod,
messageLength,
canonicalizedHeaders,
canonicalizedResource);
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CultureInfo.InvariantCulture,
"{0} {1}:{2}",
"SharedKey",
accountName,
signature
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request.Method = requestMethod;
request.Headers.Add("x-ms-date", dateInRfc1123Format);
request.Headers.Add("x-ms-version", storageServiceVersion);
request.Headers.Add("Authorization", authorizationHeader);
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requestStream.Write(messageContent, 0, messageLength);
using (HttpWebResponse response = (HttpWebResponse)request.GetResponse())
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Also, you could see this page:http://convective.wordpress.com/2010/08/18/examples-of-the-windows-azure-storage-services-rest-api/
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Hi All,
Currently i am working on Microsoft Windows Azure (SaaS - Application).
I am facing a problem with the AzureStorage.
I want to delete a whole directory from the Azure Storage Account.
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Any help will be appriciated.
Thanks in Advance.
Rakesh T. Gupta, Web Engineer, Ahmedabad, IndiaHi Rakesh,
We have not heard you in days. Have you managed to write the code to delete a blob directory?
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blobContainer.CreateIfNotExist();
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How to set same domain name for Azure Storage and Hosted Service
I have a web application running on azure and using azure storage with blob. My application allows to edit html files that are in the azure storage to save with another name and publish them later. I am using javascript to edit the html content that
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from blob storage and returns it.
Please check
Accessing blobs in private container without Shared Access Secret key for a code sample.
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How to connect a web upload form(for video uploads) to Azure Storage / Media services?
Hi I have a form on my Joomla site (see image under for viewers to upload and send me their videos, images and info.
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http://www.joshholmes.com/blog/2010/04/15/creating-a-simple-php-blog-in-azure/
http://stackoverflow.com/questions/27464839/use-form-post-php-to-upload-a-file-to-azure-storage-and-return-the-link
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UCCX 7 - Change alert threshold for disk space
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The server is not actually getting low on disk space when this alert is generated, it is simply going below the 40 GB free threshold that is built somewhere in the UCCX application. This is what the actual email looks like:
From CRSAdministrator@AUS-SVR-ICD-01
WARNING: CRS server AUS-SVR-ICD-01(172.21.X.X) is running low in free disk space
**DO-NOT-REPLY-TO-THIS-EMAIL**
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Alerting Metric thresholds for Notification rules
Hi Guys,
Can i edit the Response Time (msec) metric under the Listener Availability Notification rule to alert only if the response time is breaching the alerting threshold for 5 minutes,as in for 5 consecutive occurences when this metric is pooled ?
For example we can execute dbms_server_alert.set_threshold(.....
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Can we do this for Response Time (msec) metric under the Listener Availability Notification rule ?
I am also not seeing this metric listed under v$METRICNAME
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Learning resource for Azure Storage
Dive Deep into Networking Storage and Disaster Recovery Scenarios
http://www.microsoftvirtualacademy.com/training-courses/dive-deep-into-networking-storage-and-disaster-recovery-scenarios?WT.mc_id=13361-ITP-ming-man-chan-mvp-content
chanmmThere are some other great resources available.
1) Azure storage documentation: It's just awesome. you will get all latest bits here.
http://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/documentation/services/storage/
2) Checkout MVA course for azure storage
http://www.microsoftvirtualacademy.com/training-courses/windows-azure-storage-design-and-implementation-jump-start
http://www.microsoftvirtualacademy.com/training-courses/windows-azure-storage-design-and-implementation-jump-start
There are some cool examples also there on Azure Storage from the following link.
https://azurestoragesamples.codeplex.com/
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Azure account maximum capacity varies.
I see that Azure initially provided 100TB per account. After 8 June 2012 they have increased the account capacity to 200TB for accounts created after the specified
date. <o:p></o:p>
Also the capacity storage schema in the msdn website indicates that only capacity used by the account is stored using statistics.
<o:p>There is API to query for used account capacity.</o:p>
If as a user I create azure accounts over the years, how do I query for the total capacity of my accounts if I hold multiple accounts whose total
capacity may be different depending on when I created it. I need this info to determine how much capacity is left in each of the accounts I hold.
So how do I query the maximum capacity of my accounts from Azure ?
Is there an API for query the maximum capacity of an Azure account ?Hi,
Base on my experience, it may have not the method directly get the how much capacity is left in the accounts. But we could use the compromised approach. We could get the blob storage and table storage usage capacity.
Please see this blog (http://blogs.msdn.com/b/windowsazurestorage/archive/2011/08/03/windows-azure-storage-metrics-using-metrics-to-track-storage-usage.aspx?Redirected=true
) and this docs (http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/azure/hh343258.aspx). And I suggest you could refer to Gaurav Mantri's reply (http://stackoverflow.com/a/17058225
) and this powershell code sample (http://www.amido.co.uk/richard-slater/windows-azure-storage-capacity-metrics-with-powershell/ &
http://michaelwasham.com/2011/09/28/windows-azure-storage-analytics-with-powershell/).
Hope it helps.
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How do I improve performance while doing pull, push and delete from Azure Storage Queue
Hi,
I am working on a distributed application with Azure Storage Queue for message queuing. queue will be used by multiple clients across the clock and thus it is expected that it would be heavily loaded most on the time in usage. business case is typical as in
it pulls message from queue, process the message then deletes the message from queue. this module also sends back a notification to user indicating process is complete. functions/modules work fine as in they meet the logical requirement. pretty typical queue
scenario.
Now, coming to the problem statement. since it is envisaged that the queue would be heavily loaded most of the time, I am pushing towards to speed up processing of the overall message lifetime. the faster I can clear messages, the better overall experience
it would be for everyone, system and users.
To improve on performance I did multiple cycles for performance profiling and then improving on the identified "HOT" path/function.
It all came down to a point where only the Azure Queue pull and delete are the only two most time consuming calls outside. I can further improve on pull, which i did by batch pulling 32 message at a time (which is the max message count i can pull from Azure
queue at once at the time of writing this question.), this returned me a favor as in by reducing processing time to a big margin. all good till this as well.
i am processing these messages in parallel so as to improve on overall performance.
pseudo code:
//AzureQueue Class is encapsulating calls to Azure Storage Queue.
//assume nothing fancy inside, vanila calls to queue for pull/push/delete
var batchMessages = AzureQueue.Pull(32); Parallel.ForEach(batchMessages, bMessage =>
//DoSomething does some background processing;
try{DoSomething(bMessage);}
catch()
//Log exception
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With this change now, profiling results show that up-to 90% of time is only taken by the Azure Message delete calls. As it is good to delete message as soon as processing is done, i remove it just after "DoSomething" is finished.
what i need now is suggestions on how to further improve performance of this function when 90% of the time is being eaten up by the Azure Queue Delete call itself? is there a better faster way to perform delete/bulk delete etc?
with the implementation mentioned here, i get speed of close to 25 messages/sec. Right now Azure queue delete calls are choking application performance. so is there any hope to push it further.
Does it also makes difference in performance which queue delete call am making? as of now queue has overloaded method for deleting message, one which except message object and another which accepts message identifier and pop receipt. i am using the later
one here with message identifier nad pop receipt to delete message from queue.
Let me know if you need any additional information or any clarification in question.
Inputs/suggestions are welcome.
Many thanks.The first thing that came to mind was to use a parallel delete at the same time you run the work in DoSomething. If DoSomething fails, add the message back into the queue. This won't work for every application, and work that was in the queue
near the head could be pushed back to the tail, so you'd have to think about how that may effect your workload.
Or, make a threadpool queued delete after the work was successful. Fire and forget. However, if you're loading the processing at 25/sec, and 90% of time sits on the delete, you'd quickly accumulate delete calls for the threadpool until you'd
never catch up. At 70-80% duty cycle this may work, but the closer you get to always being busy could make this dangerous.
I wonder if calling the delete REST API yourself may offer any improvements. If you find the delete sets up a TCP connection each time, this may be all you need. Try to keep the connection open, or see if the REST API can delete more at a time
than the SDK API can.
Or, if you have the funds, just have more VM instances doing the work in parallel, so the first machine handles 25/sec, the second at 25/sec also - and you just live with the slow delete. If that's still not good enough, add more instances.
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Saeid Hasani
T-SQL: How to Generate Random Passwords
JS: "I loved the article, well structured, to the point. Not missing any caveats that might occur, really good in the end. I would suggest changing the function to accept a whitelist / blacklist as well as a length of
the password to be created. This would be the cherry on the pie :-)"
Samuel Lester: "Very nice writeup for a real world problem!"
Richard Mueller: "Clever and apparently well researched. I liked the detailed step by step explanations."
Jinchun Chen: "Excellent!"
Manoj Pandey: "A good and handy utility TSQL that I can use and levarage if I have to use similar feature in future."
Hasham Niaz
T-SQL : Average Interval Length
Richard Mueller: "A good article, but I need more explanation of the concepts."
Manoj Pandey: "A handy TSQL script that I can use and levarage if I have to use similar feature in future."
Visakh16
T-SQL: Retrieve Connectionstring Details from SSIS Package
Manoj Pandey: "Good shortcut by using TSQL with XML to read metadata information from SSIS XML file."
Samuel Lester: "Handy trick, thanks for posting!"
Richard Mueller: "Good code, but more explanation needed. Could use a See Also section."
Visual Basic Technical Guru - June 2014
The Thinker
Better to Ask for forgiveness then permission
Richard Mueller: "Good use of images and code. The humorous title might be better in a blog."
MR: "Great topic!"
GO: "Well, to be honnest, many people worked on that article, but still, the owner "the thinker" should receive the credits! muchos gracias "The Thinker" for the Most Revised Article"
Visual C# Technical Guru - June 2014
Jaliya Udagedara
Entity Framework Code First - Defining Foreign Keys using Data Annotations
and Fluent API
Ed Price: "Wow. Good descriptions, great code snippets, and great job highlighting sections on your images!"
GO: "Thank you."
Wiki and Portals Technical Guru - June 2014
XAML guy
History and Technology Behind the TechNet Wiki Ninja Belt Calculator
Ed Price: "It's amazing to see all the details of what this tool does. Great job on the descriptions and formatting the images and text!"
Richard Mueller: "Great documentation. Good links to explain everything."
GO: "I love your articles XAML guy! Always clear and always a pleasure to read! Thanks for you help and commitment for this tool."
Durval Ramos
HTML5 Portal
Ed Price: "This is great to see this HTML5 resource!"
Richard Mueller: "A great contribution to our collection of portals"
GO: "The HTML5 Portal is A-W-E-S-O-M-E !"
João Sousa
ASP.NET Portal
Ed Price: "Good job on this portal! The Return to top links are helpful!"
Richard Mueller: "More should be done to distinguish this portal from
here."
GO: "Thanks Joao!"
Windows Phone and Windows Store Apps Technical Guru - June 2014
Dave Smits
Theming of your application
Peter Laker: "Another great article from the mighty Dave. Very useful. Not sure if MS like us want us to work around the accents so much though ;)"
Ed Price: "Very useful topic and great formatting on the code! Could benefit from more explanation on the code toward the bottom and a See Also section. Great article!"
saramgsilva
Creating Windows Phone and Window 8.1 applications using Microsoft App Studio
Peter Laker: "A great introduction! Nice walkthrough, and plenty to look at!"
Ed Price: "This is good. I love the narrative and use of images! Good conclusion!"
Carmelo La Monica
Create Universal Application with Windows Phone App Studio (en-US).
Peter Laker: "Sensational article. A real attention grabber and written very clearly."
Ed Price: "Fantastic job on the narrative and images. Some amazing articles this month!"
Windows Presentation Foundation (WPF) Technical Guru - June 2014
Magnus (MM8)
WPF: How To Tab Between Items In a ListBox
KJ: "This article seemed very useful to me. The kind of thing that I might need and here's the answer."
GO: "Thanks for that great article!."
Ed Price: "Another amazing article from Magnus! Great job on the topic choice (very needed scenario), formatting, code, explanations, and See Also section. Fantastic article!"
Sugumar Pannerselvam
Lets forget about limitations and temprorary fix... Think about 4.5 features
KJ: "Wish there were code samples and more flushed out scenarios"
GO: "Why second place? the layout and way to explain didn't convince me. Doesn't mean that the article is bad. The article is awesome; but it's missing something."
Ed Price: "Short and sweet. Could benefit from adding in some code snippet examples and images. Good topic choice."
Windows Server Technical Guru - June 2014
Mr X
DHCP on Windows Servers – Why are the expired IP addresses not getting re-assigned?
JM: "This is an excellent article, thanks for your contribution."
Richard Mueller: "Important information with good explanation. Needs a See Also section."
Philippe Levesque: "Good article ! I like how it's explained versus Windows Server. An image with the DHCP's process could be a good addition for reference. (DHCP OFFER, DHCP ACK, etc..)"
Mr X
How to force a DHCP database cleanup for expired leases in a specific scope
GO: "I'm actually thinking that nobody can defaut you Mr.X"
Philippe Levesque: "Good article ! I would add that changing the lease time to be shorted could help too."
JM: "A very good article, however you might consider adding this content as a section in your article about expired IP addresses in DHCP"
Richard Mueller: "More good information. Should be linked to the other DHCP article."
GL: "This is OK but a better solution for a highly utilized DHCP scope would be to shorten the lease time and/or configure a superscope."
Hicham KADIRI
Windows Server Core 2012 R2 - Initial configuration
GL: "This is good required information. I would really like to see information added about how to add a server role. You might consider providing PowerShell alternatives to the netsh and other commands."
JM: "This is a great to-the-point article on how to configure a Core install of Windows Server, nice work."
Richard Mueller: "A great collection of useful tools. Some could use images, more detail, or examples. The example sections could be added to the Table of Contents."
GO: "Well, our new french MVP! Well written Hicham! Do not forget to pray attention for the layout! It's capital for readers and judges!"
Philippe Levesque: "I like the article, a good resumé of the command you need to do to configure a server."
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here.
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Microsoft Azure Technical Guru - June 2014
Mr X
Configuration of WATM (Windows Azure Traffic Manager) for Web Portals hosted
on Azure VMs
JH: "Two simple words: Love it! The detailed explanation on how Traffic Manager works is awesome."
Ed Price: "Wow! Incredibly well written, with beautiful diagrams and a great use of images and tables! Great topic!"
GO: "This is a great article! Thanks Mr.X"
Mr X
How to use Windows Azure as Traffic Manager for Web portals
hosted in multiple on-premise datacenters
JH: "Very detailed! Great explanation at the beginning followed by a good step-by-step guide."
Ed Price: "A much needed article! Great job on the formatting and images!"
GO: "Thanks again, MR.X"
Mr X
How to connect Orchestrator to Windows Azure
GO: "I really enjoyed reading this article, clever and well written. Lovely done!"
JH: "Great article! I especially love the amount of pictures provided in the article."
Ed Price: "Good procedural article! Great use of images!"
Also worth a mention were the other entries this month:
Configure a custom domain name for a web site - Windows Azure (Godaddy) by
Saad Mahmood
Ed Price: "Great details!"
GO: "Well written.. Thanks for your help and article for the community"
JH: "A very relevant topic. Would love to see more articles related to other hosting providers."
Azure storage block blob upload from Android by
Isham Mohamed
JH: "Good explanation of block blobs. Unfortunately the biggest part is a code snippet provided by Microsoft. It would be great to have a real-world implementation a reader can use directly."
Ed Price: "Good topic and commenting in the code! But a lot of this article is from other sources."
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In SOLUTION MANAGER, the thresholds for log attrib are not taken in account
Im using a SAP SOLUTION MANAGER to monitor any satellites systems.
In this case, I have a problem with the monitoring of BDoc messages for a satellite.
Im declaring some threshold for BDocs in error status and anothers thresholds for BDocs in waiting for response in SOLMAN.
Unfortunately, the thresholds are not taken in account.
Here, you should find the threshold in the setup monitoring:
green to yellow: 10
yellow to green: 11
red to yellow: 9
yellow to green: 8
When I have only 2 errors in the satellite system and 1 entrie in Waiting status ,I have 2 red alerts in SOLMAN. It is not correct because my thresholds in SOLMAN are greater than this values.
unfortunately thresholds are only considered for performance attributes
(see legend in the monitoring setup). For all other MTE types in CCMS
the tresholds are not considered. The BDoc MTEs that I have used
in my example is a log attribute.
Please, someone could you help me to solve this problem or indicate me how to correct this problem with another tips?
best regards
cesarioSorry, but what you say is not a good idea, since it would mean changing a standard object. But what I posted is ok, using a redefinition of the method GET_DQUERY_VALUEHELPS works perfectly well for the need.
Regards,
Xavier -
Can't install windows azure storage sdk on windows phone 8
From Visual studio 2013 ultimate, I opened Nuget package manager console and typed following command for my windows phone 8 solution:
install-package windowsazure.storage
And I got the following error:
install-package : Could not install package 'Microsoft.WindowsAzure.ConfigurationManager 1.8.0.0'. You are trying to install this package into a project that targets 'WindowsPhone,Version=v8.0', but the package does not contain any assembly references or
content files that
are compatible with that framework. For more information, contact the package author.
At line:1 char:1
I get the same problem using UI version of package manager as well.
Did something change with the newer version of windows azure storage?The package you are trying to install does not include the Windows Phone library. Please use the following command instead:
Install-Package WindowsAzure.Storage-Preview -Pre
Thanks for this. It worked for me. Can I just add, for those that don't know how to run this command. You go to tools > Library package manager > package manager console then paste in the command and hit enter.
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Cannot install Windows Azure Storage Emulator - 3.0 Error: No available SQL Instance was found
When trying to install Windows Azure SDK for .NET (VS 2013) - 2.3 from Web Platform Installer 4.6, the install fails because Windows Azure Storage Emulator - 3.0 (Dependency) does not install successfully.
Possibly relevant lines from the install log are:
CAQuietExec: Entering CAQuietExec in C:\WINDOWS\Installer\MSI1223.tmp, version 3.6.3303.0
CAQuietExec: "C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft SDKs\Windows Azure\Storage Emulator\WAStorageEmulator.exe" init -forcecreate -autodetect
CAQuietExec: Windows Azure Storage Emulator 3.0.0.0 command line tool
CAQuietExec: Error: No available SQL Instance was found.
CAQuietExec: Error 0xfffffff6: Command line returned an error.
CAQuietExec: Error 0xfffffff6: CAQuietExec Failed
CustomAction RunInitialize returned actual error code 1603 (note this may not be 100% accurate if translation happened inside sandbox)
Action ended 11:50:13: InstallFinalize. Return value 3.
Action ended 11:50:13: INSTALL. Return value 3.
In terms of SQL Instance, SQL LocalDB is installed and working properly. SQL Server 2012 is also installed and working properly.Hi,
It is a SDK version issue. I suggest you could remove all azure sdk form your PC and use WPI to install the latest version again.
If you have any questions, please let me know.
Regards,
Will
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How to specify the storage access key for a ResourceFile?
The azure batch tutorial shows how to put program file into a public container in a storage account and let azure batch to download them to TVMs and run.
In real world scenario, if I don't want to use a public container or a shared access signature and want the azure batch to use a access key to access the container where my task program file is located, is it possible? How to do it?I see that you are conversant with the issues here but for other readers let me provide a quick review:
The properties of a task (ICloudTask/CloudTask) include a collection of ResourceFile instances. ResourceFile instances
map blobs in Azure Storage to local files in the Container/VM/Guest-OS. Azure Batch copies the files from storage into the VM before the task runs and it uses the SAS (and other data) in the ResourceFile to do so.
The ICloudTask/CloudTask.FilesToStage collection exposes the object model's mechanism for customizable file staging.
The collection accepts instances of IFileStagingProvider which ultimately are invoked to create/augment the ResourceFile collection on the task.
A default implementation is provided: FileToStage.
An instance of FileToStage maps a file local to the client library to a file ultimately in the VM (indirecting through
blob storage/SAS). When instances of FileToStage are added to the CloudTask.FilesToStage the following occurs on Commit()/AddTask:
A container is created in the given storage account. The name is constructed to avoid collisions.
The container is given a restricted SharedAccessBlobPolicy.
All of the local files specified are uploaded to that container
An SAS for each blob is created
(24hr expiry)
and a ResourceFile is constructed for each FileToStage
The ResourceFile for each FileToStage is added to the CloudTask.ResourceFiles collection.
FileToStage and the FilesToStage collection are intended to assist the customers that either want a shortcut around the issues of blob containers and SAS or want to control the file staging process via a custom implementation of IFileStagingProvider.
When using the default implementation FileToStage to stage local files, care should be taken to monitor the number of containers created and the storage cost implications.
Your concerns about SAS based methods are not directly addressed by the default implementation. I would only note that SAS values can be re-used across tasks and jobs so the existing implementation can be used to get local data into storage and usable
SAS values. However, you already have these sorts of features implemented it seems and as you point out, there is the problem of SAS expiry.
daryl
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