Summary
One of the things we see quite often is the need to move profiles from one storage account to another.
A few reasons for this are:
- The original storage account was setup with Standard Storage instead of Premium Storage
- You're moving your AVD environment to a different region (see Move AVD to a new Azure Region – Nerdio Help Center (getnerdio.com))
- You want to move some of your users to a different file share for performance reasons
- Wanting to quickly copy someone's profile to a test host pool/storage account without making them setup their profile again or possibly mess-up their production settings
Regardless of the reason (and I'm sure there are more), the steps below cover one of the easiest ways to accomplish getting profiles moved.
Prerequisites
- Download/Install the latest version of Azure Storage Explorer
- Azure Resource Manager (ARM) and Data Layer permissions to the Storage Account(s)(see Azure Storage Explorer troubleshooting guide - Azure | Microsoft Learn for more info)
- Access to create Azure Files storage accounts in NMM
Instructions
- Create a new Azure Files Share in NMM with Premium Storage
see Create a new Azure Files Share in NMM - Once the Storage Account/File Share are created, open Azure Storage Explorer
- Choose Account Management and click Sign in with Azure...
- Sign-in with credentials with the appropriate permissions in the customer's Azure Tenant
- Expand the Subscription/Storage Account/File Share for the first file share
- Right-click on the first file share and choose Open New Tab
- Repeat steps 5 & 6 for the second file share
- On the first FileShare Tab, select one (or more) profile folders, and choose Copy
- Switch to the Second Tab and choose Paste
That's it!
Once the copy is finished, you are able to Edit or Create an Existing FSLogix Profile and test it out.
If everything works, you can copy any remaining profiles using the same steps (5-9).
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