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Microsoft has launched the final preview release of Azure File Sync, a service that I, and many of my customers, have been anticipating.
Azure File Sync (AFS) is a new service that is designed to integrate on-premises file servers with Azure in several ways:
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In short, AFS solves lots of problems that we have with file servers today and it can do it non-disruptively. You install an agent, don’t have to migrate data onto an appliance, and no one will notice.
AFS has been in preview for quite a while with the agent being updated by Windows Update, which I really like! The latest update, Refresh 2, was made available on May 22nd. This update brought a number of improvements:
The best news was that Refresh 2 is the final preview update. That means that sometime in the coming months, Microsoft will finally make AFS generally available.
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