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## Identity
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The administrator registering the server and creating the cloud endpoint must be a member of the management roles [Azure File Sync Administrator](/role-based-access-control/built-in-roles/storage#azure-file-sync-administrator), Owner or Contributor for the given Storage Sync Service. This can be configured under Access Control (IAM) in the Azure portal for the Storage Sync Service.
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Azure File Sync works with your standard AD-based identity without any special setup beyond setting up sync. When you're using Azure File Sync, the general expectation is that most accesses go through the Azure File Sync caching servers, rather than through the Azure file share. Since the server endpoints are located on Windows Server, and Windows Server has supported AD and Windows-style ACLs for a long time, nothing is needed beyond ensuring the Windows file servers registered with the Storage Sync Service are domain joined. Azure File Sync will store ACLs on the files in the Azure file share, and will replicate them to all server endpoints.
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Even though changes made directly to the Azure file share will take longer to sync to the server endpoints in the sync group, you might also want to ensure that you can enforce your AD permissions on your file share directly in the cloud as well. To do this, you must domain join your storage account to your on-premises AD, just like how your Windows file servers are domain joined. To learn more about domain joining your storage account to a customer-owned Active Directory, see [Overview of Azure Files identity-based authentication for SMB access](../files/storage-files-active-directory-overview.md?toc=/azure/storage/filesync/toc.json).

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