The Azure File Sync agent v17, is being flighted to servers which are configured to automatically update and will be available soon via Microsoft Update. These are the improvements:
Sync upload performance improvements
Sync upload performance has improved (performance numbers to be posted in the near future). This improvement will mainly benefit file share migrations (initial upload) and high churn events on the server in which a large number of files need to be uploaded.
Expanded character support for file and directory names
Azure File Sync now supports an expanded list of characters. This expansion allows for users to create and sync SMB File shares with file and directory names on par with NTFS file system, for valid Unicode characters. For more information on unsupported characters, refer to the documentation here.
New cloud tiering low disk space mode metric
You can now configure an alert if a server is in low disk space mode. To learn more, see Monitor Azure File Sync.
Fixed an issue that caused the agent update to hang
Miscellaneous reliability and telemetry improvements for cloud tiering and sync
Notes
- This release is available for Windows Server 2012 R2, Windows Server 2016, Windows Server 2019 and Windows Server 2022 installations
- Windows Server 2012 R2 requires .NET Framework version 4.6.2 or higher
- The agent version for this release is 17.0.0.0
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Azure File Sync Agent v17 release: December 2023 (KB5023053)
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