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Configure Azure File Sync. Well, if you're coming from the

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previous module, and I hope you are,

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you know what a server endpoint is. A server endpoint is going to be one or more

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physical or virtual file servers in your local environment.

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And when you join or register a server to your

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storage service and join a sync group,

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you provide a local path to the file share. No Universal Naming

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Convention paths nor are Network Attached Storage devices

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supported. It needs to be a local internal path.

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I had mentioned that you can sync individual file

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shares, which is the preferred way to go.

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You can add volumes to your sync group, but that doesn't support the

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tiering, so you wouldn't get the benefit of heatmap that AFS has as one

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of its native features. Within its sync group,

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you're limited to one registered server per endpoint.

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So in all likelihood, although you may very well have just

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one storage service in your environment,

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you're likely in a common scenario to have a registered server with multiple

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file shares, each share syncing to a separate sync group.

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And lastly, there is a PowerShell module.

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The nouns start with storage sync that allow you to

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configure and customize the service.

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One PowerShell cmdlet you may want to be aware of is

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New‑StorageSyncNetworkLimit. This helps your AFS implementation

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be a better citizen in your local data centers.

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In other words, you can throttle the amount of bandwidth that AFS uses on a given registered server.