I realize I'm a little late to the party on this, but I thought your presentation was excellent and appreciate that it caters to learners new to this Azure feature. Your passion for technology comes out in the training, which I thought was great as well. Thank you for taking the time to share your knowledge and experience with the rest of us. I hope any personal troubles you may have been having are long behind you my friend.
Is there a way to enable instantaneous bi-directional sync, instead of having the Azure files sync back to On-Prem only once a day? This would be used in a scenario where some users are accessing the On-prem mapped network shares, while the other (mobile) users are accessing the same file shares via Azure.
Very nice and informative demo. Just quick question: I'm starting to migrate on premise file sharing server to the cloud. One option that I was considering before was just the Sharepoint. I know it's better for collaboration but that's basically what the users are doing(Creating documents for invoices, POs, etc) the challenging part would be the permission and the fact that it uses the user workstation to sync. Now let's say if I want to go this route, does the azure file sync would just work the same? My goal is to terminate the on premise file share server and be completely on the cloud. To my understanding the permission issue will be solved this way and it would be easier for users to access than syncing SharePoint. Thanks
Hey, very nice video. But please, correct me if im understanding this solution the right way. Azure File Sync, is a way to make your current local OnPrem server to sync all selected data to the cloud. With Cloud tiering, we can even decide how much of the current data that we want to keep locally or push to the cloud? But for what reason? What kinds of solutions does this provide me? What's the difference between this and Azure Backup?
@@jasonmatthewhillman9973 I tried using Azure AD DS to control the NTFS Permissions but my local system account is not able to write to the mounted file share on a Azure AD joined laptop. Any Ideas??
Hi thanks for the tutorial, I followed it and everything worked but the sync works from server to cloud but not the other way around, is there anything I missed??? Thanks!
Azure File Sync can be used in many ways but the most useful for many companies would be Tiering. Azure File Sync keeps ALL files on in the Azure Cloud and a subset of those files are ALSO kept on your local server. For example if you have 100TB of disk usage on prem today, you could use Azure File Sync to keep just (say) 1TB on prem for near instant response to your local requests. FTP Sync solutions are more of a backup solution than a Tiered solution.
thanks great walk through. question. basically to start syncing on prem server i would install azure file sync and configure similar to what you did with the VM? is that correct? also, your F:\ drive. was that a VHD that you created?
Hi Jeff; they still don't have file locking working... wow. It is then only good for archival items (i.e. read only, like a contract repository) or a single office that wants to have a smaller server (less disk) on-prem.
@@URTechDotCa I'm in shock that this service is offered by M$. I needed this solution to work for a global file servers setup and foolish thought it fit! sadly, I feel it's nothing more than another way of M$ getting your data into the cloud to make $$. With the costs of disks, today being so cheap your better off on-prem, with an Azure / AWS backup. Again let me thank you for the demo :)
Thanks for the point Eric. Thanks for the comment and sorry for the looooong time lag on the response; I have been in Hell in recent months with... lots of personal stuff. Thanks again.
I realize I'm a little late to the party on this, but I thought your presentation was excellent and appreciate that it caters to learners new to this Azure feature. Your passion for technology comes out in the training, which I thought was great as well. Thank you for taking the time to share your knowledge and experience with the rest of us. I hope any personal troubles you may have been having are long behind you my friend.
Brilliant, thank you from the UK.
Thanks Justin
This was a fantastic demo, thank you.
thank you! good break from reading docs :)
Great job on the explanation. Thank You...
amazing. thank you!
Is there a way to enable instantaneous bi-directional sync, instead of having the Azure files sync back to On-Prem only once a day? This would be used in a scenario where some users are accessing the On-prem mapped network shares, while the other (mobile) users are accessing the same file shares via Azure.
Very nice and informative demo. Just quick question: I'm starting to migrate on premise file sharing server to the cloud. One option that I was considering before was just the Sharepoint. I know it's better for collaboration but that's basically what the users are doing(Creating documents for invoices, POs, etc) the challenging part would be the permission and the fact that it uses the user workstation to sync. Now let's say if I want to go this route, does the azure file sync would just work the same? My goal is to terminate the on premise file share server and be completely on the cloud. To my understanding the permission issue will be solved this way and it would be easier for users to access than syncing SharePoint. Thanks
Thank you so much!
Spot on, thank you
Hey, very nice video. But please, correct me if im understanding this solution the right way.
Azure File Sync, is a way to make your current local OnPrem server to sync all selected data to the cloud.
With Cloud tiering, we can even decide how much of the current data that we want to keep locally or push to the cloud? But for what reason? What kinds of solutions does this provide me? What's the difference between this and Azure Backup?
Hi, is there a way to sync windows 10 professional and not server?
Good Job Sir
Thank you for the video.Will the existing security of folders stay as it is?
Need access control from the Azure ADDS - how would you do it???
would love to see a video about this^
You should now be able to accomplish this with Azure Files.
@@jasonmatthewhillman9973 I tried using Azure AD DS to control the NTFS Permissions but my local system account is not able to write to the mounted file share on a Azure AD joined laptop. Any Ideas??
Hi thanks for the tutorial, I followed it and everything worked but the sync works from server to cloud but not the other way around, is there anything I missed???
Thanks!
Nice demo!! Btw What tool r u using to record this video?
snagit camtasia from the looks of it
Hi, is it possible to make this file share available for users who is connected by VPN. Let's say to have URL which will be available in internet?
Does this feature support bidirectional sync as well ?
Yes, it can easily be setup for Bidirectional syncing.
Whats the difference between setting up Azure File Sync with FTP Sync (SmartFTP) ?
Azure File Sync can be used in many ways but the most useful for many companies would be Tiering. Azure File Sync keeps ALL files on in the Azure Cloud and a subset of those files are ALSO kept on your local server. For example if you have 100TB of disk usage on prem today, you could use Azure File Sync to keep just (say) 1TB on prem for near instant response to your local requests. FTP Sync solutions are more of a backup solution than a Tiered solution.
thanks great walk through. question. basically to start syncing on prem server i would install azure file sync and configure similar to what you did with the VM? is that correct? also, your F:\ drive. was that a VHD that you created?
Hi Mona; Yes, my F: drive is a VHD and the syncing will be automatic once it is setup :)
@@URTechDotCa TY! I'll give it a whirl. Appreciate your videos! Super helpful.
How to connect file share on Ubuntu VM
Hi Pri; I have not tried with Ubuntu so I can't provide details beyond the obvious stuff. Sorry
2021 and global file locking does not work!! It's just about useless! ............Good DEMO but why would anyone bother...
Hi Jeff; they still don't have file locking working... wow. It is then only good for archival items (i.e. read only, like a contract repository) or a single office that wants to have a smaller server (less disk) on-prem.
@@URTechDotCa I'm in shock that this service is offered by M$. I needed this solution to work for a global file servers setup and foolish thought it fit! sadly, I feel it's nothing more than another way of M$ getting your data into the cloud to make $$. With the costs of disks, today being so cheap your better off on-prem, with an Azure / AWS backup. Again let me thank you for the demo :)
Nice demo, but skip putting so much effort in the names for the sa etc. Wast of time in the video
Thanks for the point Eric.
Thanks for the comment and sorry for the looooong time lag on the response; I have been in Hell in recent months with... lots of personal stuff. Thanks again.