| Best Practices | L35-L50 | Best practices for Azure Files and Azure File Sync: DR/failover planning, server/drive replacement and recovery, safe deprovisioning, and performance tuning for SMB/NFS and VDI/FSLogix workloads. |
| Decision Making | L51-L71 | Guidance on planning Azure Files deployments, choosing tiers, redundancy, billing/cost models, and selecting/migrating to Azure Files or Azure File Sync from Windows/Linux and other storage. |
| Limits & Quotas | L72-L79 | Scalability, performance, and quota limits for Azure Files and File Sync, including tiers, API throttling behavior, and FAQs on supported sizes, IOPS, and throughput. |
| Security | L80-L108 | Securing Azure Files: identity/Kerberos/AD auth, NTFS/share permissions, encryption (TLS, CMK), network/perimeter, Linux/macOS clients, and on‑prem integration (firewalls, proxies, forests). |
| Configuration | L109-L136 | Configuring Azure Files and Azure File Sync: networking, VPN and endpoints, performance and redundancy, cloud tiering, DFS integration, monitoring/metrics, and backup/soft delete settings. |
| Integrations & Coding Patterns | L137-L159 | Patterns and code to build RAG apps over Azure Files using Haystack, LangChain, LlamaIndex, and vector DBs (Pinecone/Qdrant/Weaviate), plus .NET/Java/Python integration and auth. |
| Deployment | L160-L171 | Guides for migrating and syncing data to Azure Files/Azure File Sync from NAS, Linux, GlusterFS, SMB/NFS shares, and moving File Sync resources safely across scopes. |