Azure Storage Emulator fail to start

Question

I'm trying to run Azure Function locally using Visual Studio and doing timed trigger, and I have set this in local.settings.json

"AzureWebJobsStorage": "UseDevelopmentStorage=true",

But when I run it, it has an error "Invalid storage account 'devstoreaccount1'.

I try to start the emulator (admin, turned off firewall), it has this error. Default install, no modifications.

C:\Windows\system32>cd C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft SDKs\Azure\Storage Emulator

C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft SDKs\Azure\Storage Emulator>AzureStorageEmulator.exe init
Windows Azure Storage Emulator 5.2.0.0 command line tool
Found SQL Instance (localdb)\MSSQLLocalDB.
Creating database AzureStorageEmulatorDb52 on SQL instance '(localdb)\MSSQLLocalDB'.

Granting database access to user Robin-PC\Robin.
Database access for user Robin-PC\Robin was granted.

Initialization successful. The storage emulator is now ready for use.
The storage emulator was successfully initialized and is ready to use.

C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft SDKs\Azure\Storage Emulator>AzureStorageEmulator.exe start
Windows Azure Storage Emulator 5.2.0.0 command line tool

Unhandled Exception: System.TimeoutException: Unable to open wait handle.
   at Microsoft.WindowsAzure.Storage.Emulator.Controller.EmulatorProcessController.InternalWaitForStorageEmulator(Int32 timeoutInMilliseconds)
   at Microsoft.WindowsAzure.Storage.Emulator.Controller.EmulatorProcessController.EnsureRunning(Int32 timeoutInMilliseconds)
   at Microsoft.WindowsAzure.Storage.Emulator.Commands.StartCommand.RunCommand()
   at Microsoft.WindowsAzure.Storage.Emulator.Program.Main(String[] args)

C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft SDKs\Azure\Storage Emulator>

Just had this same issue and this command helped me: `netsh http add iplisten 127.0.0.1` for ref https://github.com/Azure/azure-storage-net/issues/370 — Ariel Popovsky, Jun 16 '22 at 18:18

score 5 · Answer 1 · answered Aug 31 '17 at 12:50

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After many tries, I managed to find out why. The default 10000 port is taken by a background process. I followed this instruction to find out which process and killed it, then it will work.

https://stackoverflow.com/a/43787993/283598

answered Aug 31 '17 at 12:50

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Same reason for me. Thanks – Anjani Dec 27 '22 at 10:31

score 0 · Answer 2 · answered Nov 25 '22 at 18:26

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In my case I had spun up the newer Azurite storage emulator, which used the same port number.

Terminating that storage emulator allowed me to start the (deprecated) Windows Azure Storage emulator.

answered Nov 25 '22 at 18:26

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Sarath Baiju · Answer 3 · 2021-05-26T06:20:09.157

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I have this same issue, how i solved that issue is given below

open command prombt as admin and change directory to C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft SDKs\Azure\Storage Emulator
Run command "AzureStorageEmulator.exe start -inprocess "

This worked for me

edited May 26 '21 at 06:20

answered Feb 02 '21 at 08:44

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Azure Storage Emulator fail to start

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