[email protected]

Windows stand-alone file shares are a not recommended solution for a Azure Virtual Desktop user profile, and I don’t see any reason to use this option as we have much better options available for user profile storage. Anyway, if you are using a stand-alone file share, then you should know that it does not allow the replication feature, and you have to use robocopy/PowerShell to copy files to the file share in another region as well as manage the file share DNS names so that you don’t have to change the FSLogix user profile registry every time.

––  Azure File Share storage: File share storage is the most often used solution for the FSLogix user profile because it’s Azure native and easy to integrate with other services like Azure AD, ADDS, and a private endpoint with a virtual network. There are two options in Azure storage: premium and standard storage.

Standard storage: This comes with replication and a failover option to another region, but this is not recommended for a production workload because it can impact AVD performance due to limited IOPS on the standard storage. Premium storage provides more IOPS compared to standard storage, but if you are using a standard storage