Good news, more PaaS for DaaS! While we are all participants in the digital transformation, leveraging platform (PaaS) services is always something to first take into consideration over Infrastructure Services (IaaS). Azure File is a platform service as part of your Azure storage account and is now supported for ADDS in public preview. “Our industry does not respect tradition. What it respects is innovation.” ― Satya Nadella In traditional virtual desktop infrastructure (VDI) deployments scenarios, it was/is still most likely that you build your own SMB file infrastructure to storage your roaming profiles and user-specific data on. This creates extra management and maintenance overhead, increases costs, and requires physical hardware expansions during upgrade to burst (CapEx) – non-flexible. The Azure files (Storage-as-a) service on Azure is scalable on-demand, you just create your storage account, create a file share, setup the designated NTFS/ACLs and you are ready to use it – all based on the OpEx billing model. If you want more storage? Just expand the quota and you have more. Your billing model adjusts automatically. How this works in conjunction with Azure Virtual Desktop with FSLogix Profile Container and MSIX app attach is something you’ll learn in this article. Happy learning/reading! When you’re done with this article – the following section should show up at the properties of your storage account. Table of Contents Click on the title to jump to that spot in this article: Migrate to FSLogix Profile Container Private endpoints Pre-requirements for Azure Files How to configure Azure Files for Active Directory (AD) Load Azure Hybrid Storage … Continue reading Learn here how to configure Azure Files with Active Directory (AD) authentication for Azure Virtual Desktop – FSLogix Profile Container and MSIX app attach