Merge pull request #215431 from khdownie/kendownie102122

adding cloud sync

Author: prmerger-automator[bot]

articles/storage/files/storage-files-active-directory-overview.md

@@ -92,10 +92,10 @@ This section summarizes the supported Azure file shares authentication scenarios
 Identity-based authentication for Azure Files offers several benefits over using Shared Key authentication:
 
 -   **Extend the traditional identity-based file share access experience to the cloud with on-premises AD DS and Azure AD DS**  
-    If you plan to lift and shift your application to the cloud, replacing traditional file servers with Azure file shares, then you may want your application to authenticate with either on-premises AD DS or Azure AD DS credentials to access file data. Azure Files supports using both on-premises AD DS or Azure AD DS credentials to access Azure file shares over SMB from either on-premises AD DS or Azure AD DS domain-joined VMs.
+    If you plan to lift and shift your application to the cloud, replacing traditional file servers with Azure file shares, then you may want your application to authenticate with either on-premises AD DS or Azure AD DS credentials to access file data. Azure Files supports using either on-premises AD DS or Azure AD DS credentials to access Azure file shares over SMB from either on-premises AD DS or Azure AD DS domain-joined VMs.
 
 -   **Enforce granular access control on Azure file shares**  
-    You can grant permissions to a specific identity at the share, directory, or file level. For example, suppose that you have several teams using a single Azure file share for project collaboration. You can grant all teams access to non-sensitive directories, while limiting access to directories containing sensitive financial data to your Finance team only. 
+    You can grant permissions to a specific identity at the share, directory, or file level. For example, suppose that you have several teams using a single Azure file share for project collaboration. You can grant all teams access to non-sensitive directories, while limiting access to directories containing sensitive financial data to your finance team only. 
 
 -   **Back up Windows ACLs (also known as NTFS permissions) along with your data**  
     You can use Azure file shares to back up your existing on-premises file shares. Azure Files preserves your ACLs along with your data when you back up a file share to Azure file shares over SMB.
@@ -110,19 +110,19 @@ Before you can enable identity-based authentication on Azure file shares, you mu
 
 For on-premises AD DS authentication, you must set up your AD domain controllers and domain join your machines or VMs. You can host your domain controllers on Azure VMs or on-premises. Either way, your domain joined clients must have line of sight to the domain service, so they must be within the corporate network or virtual network (VNET) of your domain service.
 
-The following diagram depicts on-premises AD DS authentication to Azure file shares over SMB. The on-premises AD DS must be synced to Azure AD using Azure AD Connect sync. Only hybrid users that exist in both on-premises AD DS and Azure AD can be authenticated and authorized for Azure file share access. This is because the share level permission is configured against the identity represented in Azure AD where the directory/file level permission is enforced with that in AD DS. Make sure that you configure the permissions correctly against the same hybrid user.
+The following diagram depicts on-premises AD DS authentication to Azure file shares over SMB. The on-premises AD DS must be synced to Azure AD using Azure AD Connect sync or Azure AD Connect cloud sync. Only [hybrid user identities](../../active-directory/hybrid/whatis-hybrid-identity.md) that exist in both on-premises AD DS and Azure AD can be authenticated and authorized for Azure file share access. This is because the share-level permission is configured against the identity represented in Azure AD, whereas the directory/file-level permission is enforced with that in AD DS. Make sure that you configure the permissions correctly against the same hybrid user.
 
 :::image type="content" source="media/storage-files-active-directory-overview/Files-on-premises-AD-DS-Diagram.png" alt-text="Diagram that depicts on-premises AD DS authentication to Azure file shares over SMB.":::
 
 ### Azure AD DS
 
-For Azure AD DS authentication, you should enable Azure AD Domain Services and domain join the VMs you plan to access file data from. Your domain-joined VM must reside in the same virtual network (VNET) as your Azure AD DS. 
+For Azure AD DS authentication, you should enable Azure AD DS and domain-join the VMs you plan to access file data from. Your domain-joined VM must reside in the same virtual network (VNET) as your Azure AD DS. 
 
 The following diagram represents the workflow for Azure AD DS authentication to Azure file shares over SMB. It follows a similar pattern to on-premises AD DS authentication to Azure file shares. There are two major differences:
 
-- First, you don't need to create the identity in Azure AD DS to represent the storage account. This is performed by the enablement process in the background.
+1. You don't need to create the identity in Azure AD DS to represent the storage account. This is performed by the enablement process in the background.
 
-- Second, all users that exist in Azure AD can be authenticated and authorized. The user can be cloud only or hybrid. The sync from Azure AD to Azure AD DS is managed by the platform without requiring any user configuration. However, the client must be domain joined to Azure AD DS, it cannot be Azure AD joined or registered. 
+2. All users that exist in Azure AD can be authenticated and authorized. The user can be cloud-only or hybrid. The sync from Azure AD to Azure AD DS is managed by the platform without requiring any user configuration. However, the client must be domain-joined to Azure AD DS. It can't be Azure AD joined or registered. 
 
 :::image type="content" source="media/storage-files-active-directory-overview/Files-Azure-AD-DS-Diagram.png" alt-text="Diagram":::
 

articles/storage/files/storage-files-identity-ad-ds-assign-permissions.md

@@ -51,17 +51,17 @@ The following table lists the share-level permissions and how they align with th
 
 ## Share-level permissions for specific Azure AD users or groups
 
-If you intend to use a specific Azure AD user or group to access Azure file share resources, that identity must be a [hybrid identity](../../active-directory/hybrid/whatis-hybrid-identity.md) that exists in both on-premises AD DS and Azure AD. For example, say you have a user in your AD that is [email protected] and you have synced to Azure AD as [email protected] using Azure AD Connect sync. For this user to access Azure Files, you must assign the share-level permissions to [email protected]. The same concept applies to groups or service principals.
+If you intend to use a specific Azure AD user or group to access Azure file share resources, that identity must be a [hybrid identity](../../active-directory/hybrid/whatis-hybrid-identity.md) that exists in both on-premises AD DS and Azure AD. For example, say you have a user in your AD that is [email protected] and you have synced to Azure AD as [email protected] using Azure AD Connect sync or Azure AD Connect cloud sync. For this user to access Azure Files, you must assign the share-level permissions to [email protected]. The same concept applies to groups and service principals.
 
 > [!IMPORTANT]
 > **Assign permissions by explicitly declaring actions and data actions as opposed to using a wildcard (\*) character.** If a custom role definition for a data action contains a wildcard character, all identities assigned to that role are granted access for all possible data actions. This means that all such identities will also be granted any new data action added to the platform. The additional access and permissions granted through new actions or data actions may be unwanted behavior for customers using wildcard. To mitigate any unintended future impact, we highly recommend declaring actions and data actions explicitly as opposed to using the wildcard.
 
 In order for share-level permissions to work, you must:
 
-- Sync the users **and** the groups from your local AD to Azure AD using Azure AD Connect sync
-- Add AD synced groups to RBAC role so they can access your storage account
+- Sync the users **and** the groups from your local AD to Azure AD using either the on-premises [Azure AD Connect sync](../../active-directory/hybrid/whatis-azure-ad-connect.md) application or [Azure AD Connect cloud sync](../../active-directory/cloud-sync/what-is-cloud-sync.md), a lightweight agent that can be installed from the Azure Active Directory Admin Center.
+- Add AD synced groups to RBAC role so they can access your storage account.
 
-Share-level permissions must be assigned to the Azure AD identity representing the same user or group in your AD DS to support AD DS authentication to your Azure file share. Authentication and authorization against identities that only exist in Azure AD, such as Azure Managed Identities (MSIs), are not supported with AD DS authentication.
+Share-level permissions must be assigned to the Azure AD identity representing the same user or group in your AD DS to support AD DS authentication to your Azure file share. Authentication and authorization against identities that only exist in Azure AD, such as Azure Managed Identities (MSIs), aren't supported with AD DS authentication.
 
 > [!TIP]
 > Optional: Customers who want to migrate SMB server share-level permissions to RBAC permissions can use the `Move-OnPremSharePermissionsToAzureFileShare` PowerShell cmdlet to migrate directory and file-level permissions from on-premises to Azure. This cmdlet evaluates the groups of a particular on-premises file share, then writes the appropriate users and groups to the Azure file share using the three RBAC roles. You provide the information for the on-premises share and the Azure file share when invoking the cmdlet.

articles/storage/files/storage-files-identity-auth-active-directory-enable.md

@@ -50,7 +50,7 @@ To help you set up identity-based authentication for some common use cases, we p
 
 Before you enable AD DS authentication for Azure file shares, make sure you've completed the following prerequisites: 
 
-- Select or create your [AD DS environment](/windows-server/identity/ad-ds/get-started/virtual-dc/active-directory-domain-services-overview) and [sync it to Azure AD](../../active-directory/hybrid/how-to-connect-install-roadmap.md) with Azure AD Connect. 
+- Select or create your [AD DS environment](/windows-server/identity/ad-ds/get-started/virtual-dc/active-directory-domain-services-overview) and [sync it to Azure AD](../../active-directory/hybrid/how-to-connect-install-roadmap.md) using either the on-premises [Azure AD Connect sync](../../active-directory/hybrid/whatis-azure-ad-connect.md) application or [Azure AD Connect cloud sync](../../active-directory/cloud-sync/what-is-cloud-sync.md), a lightweight agent that can be installed from the Azure Active Directory Admin Center.
 
     You can enable the feature on a new or existing on-premises AD DS environment. Identities used for access must be synced to Azure AD or use a default share-level permission. The Azure AD tenant and the file share that you're accessing must be associated with the same subscription.
 
@@ -74,7 +74,7 @@ Azure Files authentication with AD DS is available in [all Azure Public, China a
 
 If you plan to enable any networking configurations on your file share, we recommend you read the [networking considerations](./storage-files-networking-overview.md) article and complete the related configuration before enabling AD DS authentication.
 
-Enabling AD DS authentication for your Azure file shares allows you to authenticate to your Azure file shares with your on-premises AD DS credentials. Further, it allows you to better manage your permissions to allow granular access control. Doing this requires synching identities from on-premises AD DS to Azure AD with AD Connect. You assign share-level permissions to hybrid identities synced to Azure AD while managing file/directory level access using Windows ACLs.
+Enabling AD DS authentication for your Azure file shares allows you to authenticate to your Azure file shares with your on-premises AD DS credentials. Further, it allows you to better manage your permissions to allow granular access control. Doing this requires synching identities from on-premises AD DS to Azure AD using either the on-premises [Azure AD Connect sync](../../active-directory/hybrid/whatis-azure-ad-connect.md) application or [Azure AD Connect cloud sync](../../active-directory/cloud-sync/what-is-cloud-sync.md), a lightweight agent that can be installed from the Azure Active Directory Admin Center. You assign share-level permissions to hybrid identities synced to Azure AD while managing file/directory-level access using Windows ACLs.
 
 Follow these steps to set up Azure Files for AD DS authentication: 
 

articles/storage/files/storage-files-identity-auth-azure-active-directory-enable.md

@@ -43,7 +43,7 @@ The Azure AD Kerberos functionality for hybrid identities is only available on t
 
 To learn how to create and configure a Windows VM and log in by using Azure AD-based authentication, see [Log in to a Windows virtual machine in Azure by using Azure AD](../../active-directory/devices/howto-vm-sign-in-azure-ad-windows.md).
 
-This feature doesn't currently support user accounts that you create and manage solely in Azure AD. User accounts must be [hybrid user identities](../../active-directory/hybrid/whatis-hybrid-identity.md), which means you'll also need AD DS and Azure AD Connect. You must create these accounts in Active Directory and sync them to Azure AD. To assign Azure Role-Based Access Control (RBAC) permissions for the Azure file share to a user group, you must create the group in Active Directory and sync it to Azure AD.
+This feature doesn't currently support user accounts that you create and manage solely in Azure AD. User accounts must be [hybrid user identities](../../active-directory/hybrid/whatis-hybrid-identity.md), which means you'll also need AD DS and either [Azure AD Connect](../../active-directory/hybrid/whatis-azure-ad-connect.md) or [Azure AD Connect cloud sync](../../active-directory/cloud-sync/what-is-cloud-sync.md). You must create these accounts in Active Directory and sync them to Azure AD. To assign Azure Role-Based Access Control (RBAC) permissions for the Azure file share to a user group, you must create the group in Active Directory and sync it to Azure AD.
 
 You must disable multi-factor authentication (MFA) on the Azure AD app representing the storage account.
 

articles/storage/files/storage-troubleshoot-windows-file-connection-problems.md

@@ -59,7 +59,7 @@ Validate that permissions are configured correctly:
 
 - **Active Directory Domain Services (AD DS)** see [Assign share-level permissions to an identity](./storage-files-identity-ad-ds-assign-permissions.md).
 
-    Share-level permission assignments are supported for groups and users that have been synced from Active Directory Domain Services (AD DS) to Azure Active Directory (Azure AD) using Azure AD Connect.  Confirm that groups and users being assigned share-level permissions are not unsupported "cloud-only" groups.
+    Share-level permission assignments are supported for groups and users that have been synced from AD DS to Azure Active Directory (Azure AD) using Azure AD Connect sync or Azure AD Connect cloud sync. Confirm that groups and users being assigned share-level permissions are not unsupported "cloud-only" groups.
 - **Azure Active Directory Domain Services (Azure AD DS)** see [Assign share-level permissions to an identity](./storage-files-identity-auth-active-directory-domain-service-enable.md?tabs=azure-portal#assign-share-level-permissions-to-an-identity).
 
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