Azure Files Deployment

Question

Smaller environment with on-prem AD that sync's to Office 365.

We've moved a lot of data to SharePoint Online but no one seems very happy with the performance and user experience. I'd also like to remove all on-prem servers (HV, AD & FS); move workstations to Azure AD.

Researching Azure files and thinking we should have an Azure Files sync server at the HQ office. It's a commercial construction firm where the accounting staff, marketing and other power users make extensive use of Blue Beam, Adobe products and others. The Accounting team likes to drag/drop files between their local PC and the file shares. We also have very deep file structures w/ long folder and file names. All-in under 2TB of data in play here.

First and foremost, is this a good use case for Azure Files?

I'm thinking for the guys with laptops that are out of the office a lot, we would just map their drives to File Sync Server on Windows Azure Edition. The Power users in the office we would map to the Azure Files Sync server instance in the office.

In this scenario, how frequently can updates be reflected in the cloud when files are changes on-prem or vice versa?

Any other sage advice is much appreciated.

Thanks!

Answer 1

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