WS2012 R2

In part one of this article series, Aidan Finn shows how to design and manage SMB Multichannel in SMB 3.0, which is a data protocol that is available in Windows Server 2012 R2.

Aidan explain’s how you can back up folders & files that have been synchronized and/or tiered to the cloud with Azure File Sync.

Aidan explains how you can easily synchronize folders between multiple file servers via Azure File Sync.

In this post, Aidan explains what tiering is in Azure File Sync, how to enable it, and how the policy-based system works.

Aidan shows you how to restore files that were synchronized to the cloud, using Azure File Sync, and backups up using Azure Backup.

In this post, Aidan will show you how to deploy Azure File Sync to synchronize files from a file server to Azure, which you can then use to enable tiering of hot/cold files, inter-site replication, cloud-based backup. and disaster recovery.

This post will detail the system requirements and considerations for planning an Azure File Sync deployment.

This post will discuss what the general availability of Azure File Sync will mean to customers that are continuing to use on-premises file servers.

I have known about Azure File Sync for quite a while under NDA and have been itching to start talking about it. It’s a killer service that an incredible number of businesses could benefit from.