How do I Remove Items from My Azure Blob Storage Account? (4234381)

A prerequisite to removing items is that Azure PowerShell must be installed and configured. For instructions on how to do this, please see the following link: https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/documentation/articles/powershell-install-configure/.

To remove blob storage containers or queue containers from your Azure blob storage account, do the following:

1.Ensure there are no active migration actions running that use the Azure storage where the items are stored.

2.Open Azure PowerShell.

3.Connect to Azure using the New-AzureStorageContext Cmdlet. Your account name and account key are required parameters. Note that these are different from your Client ID and Application Secret.        $context = New-AzureStorageContext -StorageAccountName $accountName -StorageAccountKey $accountKey

4.Get the items using either the Get-AzureStorageContainer or the Get-AzureStorageQueue Cmdlet. A sample call is shown below:

5.Remove the items using either the Remove-AzureStorageContainer or the Remove-AzureStorageQueue Cmdlet, depending on the item type retrieved in the previous step. A sample call is shown below:

6.All items of the specified type are now removed from your Azure blob storage account.

NOTE: In the majority of cases, these items are automatically removed after successful or canceled migrations. Typically, items will only accumulate when the import logs associated with the successful migration of a batch fail to download.