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Azure Unblogged - Replace your file server with a serverless Azure file share!

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thomasmaurer
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Feb 26, 2020
You can already extend your on-premises file servers into Azure using Azure File Sync, but now you can completely decommission those old on-premises file servers and replace them with serverless Azur...
Updated May 11, 2021
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dkirby
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May 08, 2020

I am prototyping a solution for remote users using Azure Guest accounts to access Azure Storage File shares. The prototype has hit a wall with the P2S VPN. The VPN indicates it is connected but the Test-netconnection fails and I can not ping any IPs on the azure side. In your ignite presentation there was a mention of adding an entry to the host file for the IP of the nic of the Private endpoint. Still no luck. The VPN was created using the Scripts located at:  https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/storage/files/storage-files-configure-p2s-vpn-windows

 

On another note the Script for the P2S to complete the Client setup fails when you are running it on the machine you are updating. There is contention on the copy step. That being said the process still created the VPN option and connects. 

 

One last item to note. for those running the client side script I had to turn off IPv6 to get the New-PSSession cmdlet to complete successfully.

 

Thanks in advance for your assistance