How To Setup Azure File Sync From Nothing in 20 Minutes Flat

In case you don’t already know, Azure Storage lets you create a real UNC share on to an Azure cloud disk, kind of like what many people thought One Drive For Business was going to do. You can also use Azure File Sync to take old files from your existing file shares and put them in the cloud so staff can seamlessly retrieve them without ever knowing those old files were in the cloud.

[johnk.]

I'm coming to this in 2024, A really well put together tutorial !.

Thanks for putting in the time to create this video.

Everything works as presented and made getting this up and running much more stress free than I had anticipated.

Much appreciated.

[jasonmatthewhillman]

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.

[polonia]

thank you! good break from reading docs :)

[chris_wall]

This was a fantastic demo, thank you.

[kristijangasparac]

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.

[elastiboy]

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

[maddychess]

Thank you for the video.Will the existing security of folders stay as it is?

[musicinsane]

Nice demo!! Btw What tool r u using to record this video?

[mike]

Great job on the explanation. Thank You...

[zamarinen]

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?

[Mo-dgxi]

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?

[MrJosealconchel]

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!

[jwaconditionmonitoring]

Hi, is there a way to sync windows 10 professional and not server?

[german-engineering]

Need access control from the Azure ADDS - how would you do it???

[vorkpalur]

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?

[Ferruccio_Guicciardi]

Whats the difference between setting up Azure File Sync with FTP Sync (SmartFTP) ?

[RishabhGupta]

Does this feature support bidirectional sync as well ?

[prim]

How to connect file share on Ubuntu VM

[muos]

2021 and global file locking does not work!! It's just about useless! DEMO but why would anyone bother...

[MegaDraadloos]

Nice demo, but skip putting so much effort in the names for the sa etc. Wast of time in the video