PSCreateDirADLSGen2.ps1

#The below PowerShell script helps you to create a directory in ADLS Gen 2 storage account with REST API using Azure AD Authentication

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#Note : User should have sufficient permissions to create the directory in the storage account
#Users can make use of SAS token as well instead of authorizing using Bearer token (which is used in below script)

$storage ="https://your storage account.dfs.core.windows.net/"
$filepath = "filesystem name" 
$directoryname = "directory name" #Example : in case of folder "test1" and in case of subfolder "test1/test2"
$resourcetype = "directory"

# Acquire auth token
$token = Get-AzureADToken -UserName 'email id of the user who is creating directory' -TenantID 'tenant id or directory id of the user' -ResourceURI 'https://storage.azure.com/'

$URI = $storage + $filepath + "/" + $directoryname +  "?resource=" + $resourcetype 
    
#The call for creating directory in filesystem
$Method = "PUT"
$version = "2019-12-12"
$headers = @{'x-ms-version' = $version
             'If-None-Match' = '*'
             'Authorization' = $token
            }


#Invocation of the API
$res = Invoke-RestMethod -Uri $URI -Method $Method -Headers $headers