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brew install --cask microsoft-azure-storage-explorer

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overview

Package summary

Explorer for Azure Storage

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Commands and aliases

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history

Project history and usage

Microsoft Azure Storage Explorer is a free cross-platform desktop client for browsing, transferring, and administering data in Azure Storage.

Project history

Microsoft announced a substantially revised Azure Storage Explorer preview with Azure SDK 2.8 in 2015. The preview emphasized standalone, cross-platform storage inspection, uploads and downloads, metadata, and shared-access-signature workflows.

Microsoft continued broadening the client as Azure Storage evolved, including deeper Data Lake Storage support and AzCopy integration for high-throughput transfers.

Adoption history

Microsoft positioned the preview as a free standalone tool for developers building and diagnosing Azure Storage applications, initially offering Windows and macOS builds. It subsequently became a cross-platform management client integrated with Microsoft Entra authentication and multiple Azure Storage services.

Its scope expanded beyond the preview's blob-centered workflows to queues, tables, file shares, Data Lake Storage, managed disks, AzCopy-powered transfers, access-control management, and local Azurite development.

How it is used

Sign in with a Microsoft Entra account to browse permitted subscriptions, or attach an individual resource using a SAS, connection string, account name and key, or supported local-emulator connection.

Use the explorer interface to upload, download, copy, inspect, and manage blobs, file shares, queues, tables, disks, and Data Lake Storage resources. Microsoft recommends Entra authentication where possible.

Why package nerds care

Storage Explorer packages many Azure data-plane operations into one desktop client, making it useful when a graphical inspection or transfer workflow is faster than composing Azure CLI, PowerShell, SDK, or portal operations.

Timeline

2015: Microsoft announced the revised cross-platform Storage Explorer preview.
2018: Storage Explorer support was added to the broader Azure Data Lake Storage Gen2 preview.
2019: AzCopy integration entered public preview as the application's high-throughput transfer engine.

Related projects

AzCopy, used as a high-performance transfer engine.
Azurite, the local Azure Storage emulator.
Azure CLI, Azure PowerShell, and the Azure portal, which provide alternative storage-management interfaces.

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Configuration files

Config paths the tool may read or write during local use.

Linux: ~/.config/StorageExplorer
macOS: ~/Library/Application Support/StorageExplorer
Windows: C:\Users\<username>\AppData\StorageExplorer

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page generated2026-11-04

manager version1.47.0

manager updated

local dataok

upstreamnot checked

latest detectednot detected

https://github.com/microsoft/AzureStorageExplorer

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install metadata

Package metadata

Package key	cask:microsoft-azure-storage-explorer
Version	1.47.0
Package manager	Homebrew Cask
Package manager page	https://formulae.brew.sh/cask/microsoft-azure-storage-explorer
Homepage	https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/features/storage-explorer/
Repository	https://github.com/microsoft/AzureStorageExplorer
Upstream docs	https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/features/storage-explorer/
Source archive	https://github.com/microsoft/AzureStorageExplorer/releases/download/v1.47.0/StorageExplorer-darwin-arm64.zip
SHA-256	0cb7ea66a0740c1e3aee79e3229dcd566b151c91777edd95e17c33db39ecd1f1
Bottle	not recorded
Homebrew post-install	not defined
Service	none declared

registry facts

Source database details

Source Database	Homebrew cask API
Tap	homebrew/cask
Full Token	microsoft-azure-storage-explorer
Names	Microsoft Azure Storage Explorer
Depends On	Macos >=: 12
Artifacts	App 1 Target 1 Zap 1
Deprecated	no
Disabled	no

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combined/microsoft-azure-storage-explorer.yml

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