Episode 175 – File Shares for Clients in the Cloud with Azure Files

In Episode 175, Ben and Scott talk about using Azure Files as a remote file share in the cloud for client devices and the things you’ll want to think about to get everything up and running.

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Show Notes

* What is Azure Files?
* Enable on-premises Active Directory Domain Services authentication over SMB for Azure file shares

* Configure NTFS permissions over SMB


* Enable Azure Active Directory Domain Services authentication on Azure Files
* Use an Azure file share with Windows
* Mount Azure file share over SMB with macOS
* About Point-to-Site VPN
* What is Azure Active Directory Domain Services?
* How to write a lmhosts file for domain validation and other name resolution issues
* Name resolution for resources in Azure virtual networks
* Azure VPN Client
* Configure an Always On VPN user tunnel
* Azure Files networking considerations

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