Create a connection

1In Administrator, select Connections.
2Click New Connection.
3In the Connection Details section, enter the following connection details:

Connection property	Description
Connection Name	Name of the connection. Each connection name must be unique within the organization. Connection names can contain alphanumeric characters, spaces, and the following special characters: _ . + -, Maximum length is 255 characters.
Description	Description of the connection. Maximum length is 4000 characters.

4Select the Microsoft Azure Blob Storage V3 connection type.
5Enter the following connection details:

Property	Description
Use Secret Vault	Stores sensitive credentials for this connection in the secrets manager that is configured for your organization. This property appears only if secrets manager is set up for your organization. When you enable the secret vault in the connection, you can select which credentials that the Secure Agent retrieves from the secrets manager. If you don't enable this option, the credentials are stored in the repository or on a local Secure Agent, depending on how your organization is configured. Note: If you’re using this connection to apply data access policies through pushdown or proxy services, you cannot use the Secret Vault configuration option. For information about how to configure and use a secrets manager, see Secrets manager configuration.
Runtime Environment	The name of the runtime environment where you want to run tasks.
Account Name	Microsoft Azure Blob Storage account name.

6In the Connection section, select the authentication method.
You can use the following authentication methods to connect to Microsoft Azure Blob Storage:
• - Shared Key authentication
• - Shared Access Signature authentication
7Click Test Connection.
8Click Save.

Shared Key authentication

Shared Access Signature authentication