We’re in the process of setting up our CMS 12 environment and migrating content from CMS 11. In CMS 11, we handled blob storage by copying the blobs directly via the CMS 11 paasportal mirgration tool.

According to Optimizely support, for CMS 12 we should add services.AddCmsCloudPlatformSupport in our Startup.cs file. They explained that we don’t need to include the EPiServerAzureBlobs connection string in appsettings.json, since environment variables are supposed to handle that automatically. However, when we omit the connection string, none of our blobs appear.

The question I’m trying to resolve is whether there’s a way to configure a default setup that works consistently across environments. We don’t have direct access to their blob storage, and support has confirmed they won’t provide it. The documentation they shared only gives us a temporary link that seems to expire after about six hours. What we need is a stable, non-expiring configuration.

Any guidance or suggestions would be greatly appreciated.