Following the guide found in the blog post below;
https://blogs.aws.amazon.com/security/post/Tx71TWXXJ3UI14/Enabling-Federation-to-AWS-using-Windows-Active-Directory-ADFS-and-SAML-2-0
This guide allowed us to set up federation using ADFS 3.0. The only thing to note which does not appear to be in the blog post, is that the Active Directory Security Groups that you create (starting AWS-) must be Global or Universal. This will not work if the group has been created as Domain Local.
If you have created the group at this level you can change this without needing to recreate the Security Group. Simply set the Group Scope to "Universal" as this will then allow the "Global" box to be selected again.
This will also accept nested groups when granting access so you do not need to add all users individually.
When attempting to upload files to a storage account in Azure, if you upload using the portal no Check-MD5 value appears to be generated. In order to have a value generated you need to use the AzCopy tool.
Once you have this installed, open a command prompt and run the tool (default installation location will be C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft SDKs\Azure\AzCopy\AzCopy.exe)
To upload a single file to a location, use the following command;
AzCopy /Source:A:\Folder\On\My\Computer /Dest:https://storageaccount.file.core.windows.net/filescontainer/folder /DestKey:Storage-Account-Access-Key /Pattern:FileName.ext
Replace the bold text with your parameters
/Source: needs to be the folder location only - do not include the file name or the command will fail. The file name is specified in /Pattern:
Update:
Alternatively, if you have several files to upload to a single location and so want to copy the entire contents of a folder, you can run the command below. This copies all content in a directory including structure;
AzCopy /Source:A:\Folder\On\My\Computer /Dest:https://storageaccount.file.core.windows.net/filescontainer/folder /DestKey:Storage-Account-Access-Key /S
