Check Storage Account Name Availability

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08/03/2016

The Check Storage Account Name Availability operation checks to see if the specified storage account name is available, or if it has already been taken.

Request

The Check Storage Account Name Availability request may be specified as follows. Replace <subscription-id> with your subscription ID and <storage-account-name> with the name of that you want to use for the storage account.

Method	Request URI
GET	https://management.core.windows.net/<subscription-id>/services/storageservices/operations/isavailable/<storage-account-name>

URI Parameters

None.

Request Headers

The following table describes the request headers.

Request Header	Description
x-ms-version	Required. Specifies the version of the operation to use for this request. This header should be set to 2012-03-01 or higher.

Request Body

None.

Response

The response includes an HTTP status code, a set of response headers, and a response body.

Status Code

A successful operation returns status code 200 (OK).

Response Headers

The response for this operation includes the following headers. The response may also include additional standard HTTP headers.

Response Header	Description
x-ms-request-id	A value that uniquely identifies a request made against the management service.

Response Body

The format of the response body is as follows:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<AvailabilityResponse xmlns=”https://schemas.microsoft.com/windowsazure”>
  <Result>name-availability</Result>
  <Reason>reason-for-denial</Reason>
</AvailabilityResponse>

The following table describes the elements in the response body.

Element name	Description
Result	Specifies a boolean value that indicates whether the name is available for you to use. If true, the name is available. If false, the name has already been taken and cannot be used.
Reason	Specifies the reason that a storage account name could not be used. The value will be true if the name can be used. The Reason element is only returned using version 2013-03-01 or higher.

Result

Specifies a boolean value that indicates whether the name is available for you to use. If true, the name is available. If false, the name has already been taken and cannot be used.

Reason

Specifies the reason that a storage account name could not be used. The value will be true if the name can be used.

The Reason element is only returned using version 2013-03-01 or higher.

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