microsoft / microsoft/DurableFunctionsMonitor
`Server failed to authenticate the request.` when connecting to Azure storage
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Description
I'm hitting the following error when attempting to use my identity to acces a task hub:
[2025-07-31T09:30:12.080Z] Executing 'DfmGetOrchestrationsFunction' (Reason='This function was programmatically called via the host APIs.', Id=986c8755-ea41-436c-913e-485f86fa7639)
[2025-07-31T09:30:12.276Z] DFM failed
[2025-07-31T09:30:12.276Z] DurableTask.AzureStorage: Server failed to authenticate the request. Make sure the value of Authorization header is formed correctly including the signature. Microsoft.WindowsAzure.Storage: Server failed to authenticate the request. Make sure the value of Authorization header is formed correctly including the signature.
[2025-07-31T09:30:12.277Z] Executed 'DfmGetOrchestrationsFunction' (Succeeded, Id=986c8755-ea41-436c-913e-485f86fa7639, Duration=197ms)
With the following setting:
"durableFunctionsMonitor.taskHubsDiscoveryMode": "Do not use Storage keys"
As a test, on the same environment, i installed the Azure Storage Explorer (standalone) https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/products/storage/storage-explorer. Accessing the storage account (and the content of tables/blobs/queues) with identity works just fine there.
In the same environment with a personal account (pointing to a personal tenant), using the monitor via VS Code, works just fine.
I think Microsoft.WindowsAzure.Storage (which is marked as legacy btw) isn't supported in my work tenant.
Any way around this? Or to debug further?
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Start by reproducing the authentication failure with durableFunctionsMonitor.taskHubsDiscoveryMode set to "Do not use Storage keys" in the reported work-tenant environment. Compare this with the successful Storage Explorer and personal-tenant cases, then trace the DurableFunctionsMonitor storage access path. Done means documenting a confirmed cause and an actionable workaround or fix.
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- azure
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- cloud
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- Bug
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