Deep dive setting up a Lenovo cloud repository in an Azure file share
This article has moved to https://blog.lenovocdrt.com/#/2020/ur_az_fs In a previous post , I walked through a few steps on how to host an Update Retriever repository in an Azure blob storage. This involved downloading the updates to a local machine, copying them to the blob, and configuring Thin Installer on the client to pull these updates down. Another option is the Lenovo cloud repository feature in Update Retriever. By choosing this option, only the package XML's will be downloaded to the repository while the full content will be hosted by Lenovo. If you're moving your on-prem repository to the cloud, this option will most definitely cut down storage costs as these XML's are only a couple of Kilobytes in size. A few things to note before exploring this route: System Update (version 5.07.0046 and later) is supported Commercial Vantage is supported Thin Installer is NOT supported Azure Storage Account You'll need to create a new storage acco