Create a new microsoft account at microsoft.com

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Create a new microsoft account at microsoft.com

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1. Fill out the azure portal form

Fill out the azure portal form

*make sure you verify the phone number

2. Provide payment verification:

Provide payment verification:

3. Setting up your account - this might take a while

Setting up your account - this might take a while

Setup a new account

1. Go to azure portal:

https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/get-started/azure-portal

Go to azure portal

2. Create a resource:

Create a resource

3. Search for “Storage account” and press “create”.

Search for “Storage account” and press “create”

4. Create a new Resource group to hold the blob in it (or choose from one of your exsisting groups):

Create new Resource group

5. Type lower case account name, select the region you want the storage to be in, and Redundancy mode.

(We need the account name to be saved in Voicenter Cpanel Recording Azure configurations).

6. Click next.

7. Select whether to limit access to this container from specific IP addresses or from anywhere.

Here is the simple default you can leave as is at first, and come back for hardening later.

8. Click “next: Encryption”

9. Click .

10. Click

11. Click click Create .

12. Wait for the confirmation of deployment to appear:

13. Go to Storage account:

Go to Storage account

14. If Container not showing yet - click click Refesh .

15. Go into the new Storage account created:

Go into the new Storage account created

16. go to Storage account -> Resource sharing

Configure our Cpanel domains (or simply allow all domains using "*" as shown below) as allowed domain to reference to the files in the bucket (Allowed cross origins):

cors azure settings

17. Go to Containers and Create a container:

Create a container

(We need the Container name to be saved in Voicenter Cpanel Recording Azure configurations).

18. Add CORS policy to the Storage account:

cors in azure storage account

19. Go to “access keys” of this new dedicated storage account.

20. Copy the Key1 value.

(We need the Key 1 value to be saved in Voicenter Cpanel Recording Azure configurations).

Copy the Key1 value.

21. Creating the recording profile in Voicenter:
Go to Voicenter cpanel at https://cpanel.voicenter.com API -> Recordings -> + Add organizational call recording profile

22. select Microsoft as your storage provider, and fill out the required values to paste directly to our secured Cpanel portal. Here are the 4 following values:

Account (storage) name
Container name
The URL of the account storage (usually: https://{|your-account-name|}.blob.core.windows.net )
The "Key 1" value of this storage account.

Click Next and mark calls to be encrypted, and the account/s you want it to affect.
Any account you setup will overwrite all it subaccounts with this profile - so if you dont need to split storage accounts - you only ned to create the recording profile once - to the top account.

23. Once saved - make a call - and confirm its shown in the new container, and playable from Cpanel call history page - after a few moments.