Migrating to Azure File Shares from Windows Server

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Migrating to Azure File Shares from Windows Server

You are in the process of migrating your company's workloads to Azure. As it stands now, your company wants to maintain a hybrid environment, so you are working on migrating your local file shares to Azure. To do this, in this hands-on lab, you will be creating an Azure file share, mounting the share to a Windows Server, and migrating data to the file share.

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Lab Info

Level

Intermediate

Last updated

Sep 19, 2025

Duration

45m

Challenge

Configure Azure Storage and File Share
- Create an Azure Storage account
- Create an Azure file share
Challenge

Mount the File Share
- Mount the file share to the virtual machine
Challenge

Migrate Files
- Create a new folder
- Add a file to the folder
- Migrate the contents of the folder to the file share using the robocopy <SourcePath> <Dest Path> command
  
  Example: robocopy C:\Users\cloud_user\Documents\awesomefolder Z:\
- Confirm the file has been migrated
  
  Note: You may notice a desktop.ini file in the folder once the files have been migrated. This is a hidden Windows OS file that is used to store configuration settings for the folder.

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