How to View Open Files on Azure File Share

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How to View Open Files on Azure File Share

Big Fatwow 26

Is it possible to view open files and open sessions on an Azure File Share like you can with a traditional server file share?

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deherman-MSFT 38,021 Microsoft Employee Moderator

@Big Fatwow
You can use the PowerShell command Get-AzStorageFileHandle to lists file handles of a file share, a file directory or a file.

Hope this helps. Let me know if you need assistance or have further questions.

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Christian Clark 1 Reputation point

2021-11-19T21:48:28.273+00:00

Good afternoon,

I am trying to run this command and am receiving the following error Get-AzStorageFileHandle: Could not get the storage context

Could you possibly tell me what I am missing?

Simon 21

Using Get-AzStorageFileHandle to list all the file handles works well, for example in this case a user has a file \Data1\test.txt open, but we can only see the folder path, and not the Filename.

Is there a way to find the actual FileName from the FileId?

PS C:\test> Get-AzStorageFileHandle -Context $Context -ShareName "files" -Recursive  
  
HandleId    Path  ClientIp       ClientPort OpenTime             LastReconnectTime FileId               ParentId SessionId            
--------    ----  --------       ---------- --------             ----------------- ------               -------- ---------            
12345678901 Data1 11.12.13.14    63333      2022-11-11 11:35:25Z                   12345678901234567890 0        9876543219876543211

Simon 21

Actually I see now that file locks are shown in the Path output, if there is a lock (e.g. from Excel), rather than just using Notepad as I did in the previous test, so all good!

HandleId    Path  	    ClientIp       ClientPort OpenTime             LastReconnectTime FileId               ParentId SessionId            
--------    ----  	    --------       ---------- --------             ----------------- ------               -------- ---------            
12345678901 Data1/data.xlsx 11.12.13.14    63333      2022-11-11 11:35:25Z                   12345678901234567890 0        9876543219876543211

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