Azure File Share and On-Premises Active Directory

This tutorial goes over the steps required to create an Azure File Share and connect it to an existing on-premises Active Directory. 😉

You can also connect your Azure File Share to Azure Active Directory as well. 😎

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References:
Get an Azure Account:

Azure Storage Account Review

Azure Storage Account Redundancy

Azure Routing vs Internet Routing

Comparison between Azure Storage Tiers

Connecting Azure Storage Account to On-Prem AD

Mount Azure File Share locally

[liriasawsomeimovies]

How do Microsoft get it so horrendously wrong and send people (me at least) into a downward spiral of deep confusion ..and then you find this ! WOW simply excellent !! really really (& really again) appreciate this proper detailed lead by example video ...

[myolds_david]

Wow, this is by far the best explanation on the subject. Thank you and keep up the good work.

[rahulsingh-iqgd]

That’s what I was looking for a long time .. tired of Microsoft documents that always bounce of my head I really appreciate your work bro .. again thank you.

[maksimkovalenko]

Thanks a lot ! Great video with really simple describing of all actions

[seeingyou]

Simplest explanation i've seen regarding this topic. Thank you for the great work!

[joeblow]

This is by far this best video for this process I have watched. You went into some detail that others skipped - thank you so much, this helped me get past some of the road blocks I was running into.

[joyan]

Great video. Exactly what I was looking for. Thanks!

[jeebsnabil]

Thank you kindly, this was really helpful and saved me a lot of frustration - particularly when joining the storage account to on premises Active Directory. I don't understand why this published script has commands that don't work but your guide got me through it successfully.

[pro]

This is exactly what i trying to get my IT folks to do for me ...

[TiteufMela]

Hello,

Thank you for this amazing videos.
Question : what are the prerequisites needed to migrate azure files precisely, what are privilieges needed in the Local AD and what are privileges needed in Azure in order to create a resource group, storage account, fileshare, ...?

Thank you

[camundson]

Thank you so much for making sense out of Microsoft babble!!!!

[aeekhout]

Hi, excellent video, thank you, which system operative do you use in the video?

[aizat]

Good video. I have a couple of questions. Can the access permission be applied to the each folder inside the storage account instead of applying the permission for the whole storage account? Secondly, if the permission is applied at storage account level to a user, and the role is contributor, I suppose the user would be able to modify the storage account? I will be testing these scenarios. Just asking here first, if you happen to know the answers :)

[stephanerobert]

Did you know if a MFP device can scan with SMB on a Windows Logged has AZURE? Azure seems overwritten all policies and local account created for SMB doesnt work anymore when a user is joint a AZURE account. Did you have a procedure how to configure a MFP device?

[mahavirsaroj]

what did you mentioned under the domain in the script.. You grayed out most of the line in powershell script

[Tonyluo]

Thanks a lot for the video. I followed along and did add the file shares into AD. But I can't find a way to map it through Group Policy Object. Is it possible? We are trying to do it because every department shall be able to see their own folders (from the azure file share) as mapped drives based on the Drive Mapping GPO.

[milkminer]

Hey man. I love how you were thorough and detailed with this. I will be using this video to implement a project for a customer. Couple of question though...
Does the identites need to synced to azure ad for this to work?
Where do you perform the task of the unzipping the azure hybrid module, and running the commands? Is that sopposed to be on the domain controller?

[HARPzC]

Hi there. Just set this up today and it's worked, thanks so much. However I've come across a stumbling block. At 22.41 in the video, I tried adding my account to give full control but get “Failed to Enumerate Objects in the Container” Error

Can you advise? All role assignments have been added and I've done exactly what you've done In your video. Thanks 🙂

[phil]

This video helped me already alot, thanks! One question: When connecting I am prompted to enter username/password. If I do so, it's working. But it should work without any authentication. Any idea why is that? Thanks!

[HoundDogZA]

The PC you're on has to be domain joined and also signed into the relevant AD account, correct? i.e. you can't just use any PC and map a drive "using different credentials"?