MicrosoftIn the comments of a previous blog post, it was stated that Microsoft is working on allowing Cloud-Only (Entra ID) authentication to SMB shares in Azure Files. Is that still on the roadmap and is that tied in any way to your timelines for releasing SMB support for this new top-level File Share resource? Can you speak to any timelines? Are we any closer today than we were two years ago in those comments? This is the last dependency preventing us from completely decommissioning AD in our environment.
MicrosoftHi __trj,
Your comment yesterday was very timely... please see this blog post that just went live today: Cloud Native Identity with Azure Files: Entra-only Secure Access for the Modern Enterprise.
To answer your Microsoft.FileShares specific question: no, cloud native identities for Azure AD are not related to the file share centric management model at all. Cloud native identities are going to preview on the classic file share model (file shares in storage accounts). We do intend to support them on Microsoft.FileShares when we add support for SMB in the future, however, we are focused on getting to GA for NFS file shares first. I don't have an ETA to share at the moment for SMB, but it's the next thing we're working on after we go to GA for NFS.
Thanks,
Will Gries
Product Manager, Azure Files
