Closing open files in Azure File Share

Question

Hello,

Is there a way to list files that are open by a user, on a particular azure file share?

We have open files that cannot be adjusted as it believes they're already open.

Kind regards

Answer 1

Thanks for posting your question in the Microsoft Q&A forum.

May this thread help you:

https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/answers/questions/527764/how-to-view-open-files-on-azure-file-share

You can check this script

for account in $(az storage account list --query '[].{Name:name}' --output tsv); do
    echo $account $(az storage share list --account-name $account --output tsv | awk '{print $2}')
done

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Answer 2

Hello Tom Wrigglesworth,

Greetings! Welcome to Microsoft Q&A Platform.

I understand that you would like to know about the open files in file share by a particular user. You can list open files on an Azure File Share using the PowerShell command Get-AzStorageFileHandle. This command allows you to list file handles of a file share, a file directory, or a specific file. Here’s a basic example of how you can use it:

# Connect to your Azure account
Connect-AzAccount

# Get the storage account context
$context = (Get-AzStorageAccount -ResourceGroupName "YourResourceGroupName" -Name "YourStorageAccountName").Context

# List open file handles in the file share
Get-AzStorageFileHandle -Context $context -ShareName "YourFileShareName" -Recursive
You can use the PowerShell command 

Using Windows tools: Handles.exe You can use Handle.exe on a Windows client to check if there are open handles on the client against the Azure File.

Example: handle <StorageAccountName>.file.core.windows.net

The script can however be worked further to list open handles and close a single handle etc.

For more details: https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/rest/api/storageservices/force-close-handles.

Similar ask thread for reference - https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/answers/questions/1047102/azure-files-open-files.

Hope this answer helps! Please let us know if you have any further queries. I’m happy to assist you further.

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