Hi, thanks for this video, could you better specify the sync frequency both on cloud and server endpoints? There’s so many contradictory documentation about that! If you also have some useful documentation link it would be really great!
that is a great question. so when you copy a file a share say in New York, the file starts to synchronize with Azure Files as soon as the file close handle is received on the local share. when the file is fully copied to Azure FIles the metadata will show up in London but the file contents will not be sync'd until someone tries to access the file in London. if a file is copied directly to the Azure Files share, the synchronization timer is much longer, it happens only one or two time per day. this is the reason some customers decide to add a Windows VM to the cloud and use the Azure Sync Agent on that too, at that point all sync'd shares are updated as soon as the file is copied. i hope this helps
Typically you would sync one share at a time in your DFS and if you need to create something similar to a DFS in Azure please watch a video I created about DFS. I hope this helps and thanks for watching
I have implemented Azure File Share successfully , and use DFS-N to publish the share with ABE (access based enumeration) enabled . However users still see Folders they don't have NTFS permission to . . Can you let me know what am I doing wrong here?
Hi @agentcode, for what I can see ABE is not supported on Azure Files Shares, the only way you could make this work is if you use DFS-N to point to Shares on different servers and then keep the folders synchronized either by using azure file sync for DFS-R i hope this helps.
I have a doubt regarding ACLs for the fileshare. please clarify. 1.case 1:-If I have a fileshare on onprem(location:-Hyd) with access level set to a group. If I change or modify ACL here,will the ACL of the fileshare updated(location:-delhi) with cloudendpoint in azure. 2.case-2:-What if I have all permissions on cloud endpoint and only reader permission defined to that fileshare on on-prem(or vice-versa).Will I be able to edit file on on-prem and on cloud endpoint?According to the features of the fileshare,since I have all permissions defined on the cloudendpoint,will that ACL replicated back to the on-prem and giving me full access to the file share on the on-prem? is this possible?
@freddydubon4619 I am getting sync issue between two az file shares, do you know any mechanism to sync one az file share to another without script as script miss or skip backups
I am not sure what you mean to Sync Server Files to a wider user, so if you could elaborate a bit more. as far as AZCopy, Azcopy was created to be used primarily with Blob Storage and you would have to use an link to copy to. if you have an Azure File Share mounted on your server as a Drive you are better off using tools like Robocopy into the share, with switches like /mt /z from a command line robocopy source folder destination folder /mt /z. hope that helps
@@freddydubon4619 Hi Freddy thanks for reply. I am migrating our on prem to cloud but we using cloud as just backup storage . So I just want to move files from network drives to cloud and then share them using file share to our prem win file share server. From there other users of the department would be accessing these files. I was hoping to accomplish this using az file share and azcopy
@@uditpatel2004 yes you should be able to do this without a problem. just mount (map a drive) the Azure File share on the server and copy files to it using Robocopy and then other users can access those files once they mount (map a drive) to the azure file share. this is a very good way to migrate to cloud. DM me on twitter if you have any other questions. @freddydubon
Thank you for this, this cleared up some issues I was having. The demo was the best I have seen, clear and concise.
I am glad it helped you! thanks for watching
Awesome, nice, short and clean explanation.
thanks for watching!
You deserve all the credit.. Simple and cool, well understood. big thumbs up..
thank you! and thank for watching
Your video was straightforward and extremely helpful. Excellent job-I really appreciated it!
I hardly leave comments, but you deserve one. Well explained and simplified.
Thank you Devim, Glad it was helpful.
Well explained and very easy to understand. Thank you Freddy for taking a time to record that video.
thank you and thanks for watching!
Thanks so much ! This cleared up a bunch of ambiguity I had in my mind about file sync !! Well done !
Glad it helped! and thanks for watching
Good breakdown. Thank you.
Glad it was helpful!
Thank you... very clear explanation
Thank you Ricardo for the comment.
Appreciate the tutorial. Thanks!
thank you! and thanks for watching! Slava Ukarini
Good explanation . Please make more such videos
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Well explained
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Hi, thanks for this video, could you better specify the sync frequency both on cloud and server endpoints? There’s so many contradictory documentation about that! If you also have some useful documentation link it would be really great!
that is a great question. so when you copy a file a share say in New York, the file starts to synchronize with Azure Files as soon as the file close handle is received on the local share. when the file is fully copied to Azure FIles the metadata will show up in London but the file contents will not be sync'd until someone tries to access the file in London. if a file is copied directly to the Azure Files share, the synchronization timer is much longer, it happens only one or two time per day. this is the reason some customers decide to add a Windows VM to the cloud and use the Azure Sync Agent on that too, at that point all sync'd shares are updated as soon as the file is copied. i hope this helps
Its easy to understand the Azure file sync. Means its replaced the DFS server concept in future?
Hi sir well explanations thank you so much... i have one questions if i have mulyiple DFS server in that time how to configure this?
Typically you would sync one share at a time in your DFS and if you need to create something similar to a DFS in Azure please watch a video I created about DFS. I hope this helps and thanks for watching
i have multiple folder in server how can i move separately to file share
I have implemented Azure File Share successfully , and use DFS-N to publish the share with ABE (access based enumeration) enabled . However users still see Folders they don't have NTFS permission to . . Can you let me know what am I doing wrong here?
Hi @agentcode, for what I can see ABE is not supported on Azure Files Shares, the only way you could make this work is if you use DFS-N to point to Shares on different servers and then keep the folders synchronized either by using azure file sync for DFS-R i hope this helps.
Is there any way to sync data to blob container by using powershell but without using azcopy?
Hi Circuit, yes there is a way. let me create a video explaining how to do that.
I have a doubt regarding ACLs for the fileshare. please clarify.
1.case 1:-If I have a fileshare on onprem(location:-Hyd) with access level set to a group. If I change or modify ACL here,will the ACL of the fileshare updated(location:-delhi) with cloudendpoint in azure.
2.case-2:-What if I have all permissions on cloud endpoint and only reader permission defined to that fileshare on on-prem(or vice-versa).Will I be able to edit file on on-prem and on cloud endpoint?According to the features of the fileshare,since I have all permissions defined on the cloudendpoint,will that ACL replicated back to the on-prem and giving me full access to the file share on the on-prem? is this possible?
thank you for the question, it is a very important question and I will follow up with a video to explain this, i will have that video out shortly.
@freddydubon4619 I am getting sync issue between two az file shares, do you know any mechanism to sync one az file share to another without script as script miss or skip backups
are you trying to sync two Azure File Shares without using an Azure File Sync agent? or can you elaborate a bit more on your use case pls? thanks
How can we share the synced server files to wider user?
. Also is it possible using azcopy to achieve the same.!
I am not sure what you mean to Sync Server Files to a wider user, so if you could elaborate a bit more. as far as AZCopy, Azcopy was created to be used primarily with Blob Storage and you would have to use an link to copy to. if you have an Azure File Share mounted on your server as a Drive you are better off using tools like Robocopy into the share, with switches like /mt /z from a command line robocopy source folder destination folder /mt /z. hope that helps
@@freddydubon4619 Hi Freddy thanks for reply. I am migrating our on prem to cloud but we using cloud as just backup storage . So I just want to move files from network drives to cloud and then share them using file share to our prem win file share server. From there other users of the department would be accessing these files. I was hoping to accomplish this using az file share and azcopy
@@uditpatel2004 yes you should be able to do this without a problem. just mount (map a drive) the Azure File share on the server and copy files to it using Robocopy and then other users can access those files once they mount (map a drive) to the azure file share. this is a very good way to migrate to cloud. DM me on twitter if you have any other questions. @freddydubon