Moving data to the "Cloud"

Well it's an SMB file system designed to be shared storage for VMs running in Azure. It's not designed to be accessed via Azure Virtual Network and browsed from on-premise over the Internet. The OP was talking about running SMB over the internet.
 
Well it's an SMB file system designed to be shared storage for VMs running in Azure. It's not designed to be accessed via Azure Virtual Network and browsed from on-premise over the Internet. The OP was talking about running SMB over the internet.

However, the guides I posted explain exactly that, SMB from on premise. The Azure Portal even gives you the "net use" command to use. Maybe in its first inception it was designed for what you explain however it appears it has come a long way now and is used for exactly this purpose.

Drawback is that it doesn't have AD integration yet so can't process ACL's but this feature is coming. For the moment it uses its own token method of security.
 
Unless you're using Azure ExpressRoute I still wouldn't use it as a replacement for an on-premise file server, and even that would depend on the types of files involved. SMB performs horrifically once any sort of latency is involved.

If you need a set of files available on-prem and to cloud hosted applications then use DFSR.
 
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