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AzCopy copy transfer fails with 403 This request is not authorized to perform this operation using this permission

Azcopy is a great command-line tool for automating Azure storage, it is a simple yet powerful command line interface that allows you to copy files to and from Azure storage and between Azure storage accounts. I was doing POC of the latest version of azcopy.exe, (There 2 different flavors available for azcopy.exe on Microsoft site, old and new (completely different parameters for both)). I am using azcopy.exe for windows version, To start working first Login to Azure cloud account with below command with tenant id. 

azcopy login --tenant-id xxxxx-xxxxxx-uid-xxxxx-xxxxxx

You can find Tenant ID on Microsoft Azure Active Directory overview page.

Next I tested copying a single file for testing, for this I need my Storage Accounts blob container URL, which I found under properties of storage account blob.

I tested below oneliner azcopy command to copy single file from local windows computer to Azure cloud storage accounts blob.

azcopy copy 'C:\Temp\t.txt' 'https://newstorage.blob.core.windows.net/firstfolder'

While executing command I was receiving error  ServiceCode= AuthorizationPermissionMismatch with Response status: 403 This request is not authorized to perfom this operation using this permission (Authorization: REDACTED) and Number of transfer failed with the file count. I checked the logs, log file is located at locally on computer at location C:\users\useraccount\.azcopy\xxx-xxxx-xx-xxx.log, It was showing similar errors in the log file.

INFO: Scanning...
INFO: Authenticating to destination using Azure AD
INFO: Any empty folders will not be processed, because source and/or destination doesn't have full folder support

Job 9073c5d6-790b-bf40-50ec-36b43b69b309 has started
Log file is located at: C:\Users\vKunal.DESKTOP-V5HF8MT\.azcopy\9073c5d6-790b-bf40-50ec-36b43b69b309.log

INFO: Authentication failed, it is either not correct, or expired, or does not have the correct permission -> github.com/Azure/azure-storage-blob-go/azblob.newStorageError, /home/vsts/go/pkg/mod/github.com/!azure/[email protected]/azblob/zc_storage_error.go:42
===== RESPONSE ERROR (ServiceCode=AuthorizationPermissionMismatch) =====
Description=This request is not authorized to perform this operation using this permission.
RequestId:11498e67-d01e-005a-2659-418619000000
Time:2020-06-13T08:08:14.6932561Z, Details:
   PUT https://newsxxxxxxxx.blob.core.windows.net/firstfolder/t.txt?timeout=901
   Authorization: REDACTED
   Content-Length: [9734]
   User-Agent: [AzCopy/10.4.3 Azure-Storage/0.7 (go1.13; Windows_NT)]
   X-Ms-Blob-Cache-Control: []
   X-Ms-Blob-Content-Disposition: []
   X-Ms-Blob-Content-Encoding: []
   X-Ms-Blob-Content-Language: []
   X-Ms-Blob-Content-Md5: []
   X-Ms-Blob-Content-Type: [text/plain; charset=utf-8]
   X-Ms-Blob-Type: [BlockBlob]
   X-Ms-Client-Request-Id: [af8e1ba1-e4aa-49d9-6e18-bab25306bc01]
   X-Ms-Version: [2019-02-02]
   --------------------------------------------------------------------------------
   RESPONSE Status: 403 This request is not authorized to perform this operation using this permission.
   Content-Length: [279]
   Content-Type: [application/xml]
   Date: [Sat, 13 Jun 2020 08:08:14 GMT]
   Server: [Windows-Azure-Blob/1.0 Microsoft-HTTPAPI/2.0]
   X-Ms-Client-Request-Id: [af8e1ba1-e4aa-49d9-6e18-bab25306bc01]
   X-Ms-Error-Code: [AuthorizationPermissionMismatch]
   X-Ms-Request-Id: [11498e67-d01e-005a-2659-418619000000]
   X-Ms-Version: [2019-02-02]



100.0 %, 0 Done, 1 Failed, 0 Pending, 0 Skipped, 1 Total, 2-sec Throughput (Mb/s): 0.0389


Job 9073c5d6-790b-bf40-50ec-36b43b69b309 summary
Elapsed Time (Minutes): 0.0667
Number of File Transfers: 1
Number of Folder Property Transfers: 0
Total Number of Transfers: 1
Number of Transfers Completed: 0
Number of Transfers Failed: 1
Number of Transfers Skipped: 0
TotalBytesTransferred: 0
Final Job Status: Cancelled

However I have owner permissions on the Azure subscription. As mentioned the error it says permission issues, You can quickly check what kind of permissions you have on storage accounts under Access control (IAM), the minimum permission you require is as shows on the Roles tab. (Storage Blob Data Contributor, Storage Account Contributor and Storage Blob Data Owner), they are BuiltinRole provided by Microsoft Azure.

As I am owner on the Azure subscription and have adequate permissions on the storage account, I tested below command to get list of files surprisingly it was working fine but not the azcopy copy command.

azcopy list 'https://newstorage.blob.core.windows.net/firstfolder'

Just to verify next I checked help with below command. While reading help I found that I am using correct command, but it caught in my mind that all the examples given are for linux path.

azcopy copy

To correct it further I replaced backward slashes with forward slashes on local file path for windows as per linux file path style notation. With this it worked fine and file transfer completed successfully.

azcopy copy 'C:/Temp/t.txt' 'https://newstorage.blob.core.windows.net/firstfolder'

I verified the uploaded file with list command, This looks good.

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