Setting up Azure Blob Storage

  • 27/03/2026
  • 3 minutes to read

Continia Document Output 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.

Prerequisites

Before configuring Azure Blob Storage as your document storage type, you need to set up an Azure Blob Storage account and container. For more information, see Create an Azure storage account and Authorize access to data in Azure Storage (Microsoft articles).

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 Azure Blob Storage for Document Output

  1. Search (Search) for and select Document Output Setup.

  2. On the General FastTab, click the dropdown by the Document Storage Type field and select Azure Blob Storage.

  3. If your current document storage type is database and you already have documents stored, you're asked if you want to migrate to Azure Blob Storage or switch to it without migrating.

  4. In the Set up Azure Blob Storage Account dialog box, configure the setting based on the values from when you set up the storage account and container.

    • Authentication Type - select one of the options below and enter the corresponding credentials.

      • Storage Key - enter your storage account key.
      • Shared Access Signature - enter your shared access signature.
      • Service Principal (Microsoft Entra ID) - enter your tenant ID, client ID, and secret.

      Note

      Microsoft recommends the service principal (Microsoft Entra ID) authentication type. For more information, see Authorize access to data in Azure Storage (Microsoft article).

    • Storage Account Name - e.g.: mystorageaccount.

    • Blob Container Name - this must match the name of the container in the Azure portal.

    • Use Private Endpoint - an advanced option, normally required only by large companies.

  5. Click Update.

To configure Azure Blob Storage for Document Output

  1. Search (Search) for and select Document Output Setup.
  2. On the General FastTab, click the value of the Status field under the Azure Blob Storage section.
  3. Follow steps 3-5 in the procedure described above.