Azure Files

Microsoft’s managed file shares in the cloud, reachable over SMB and REST.

Not yet tested live

What Mountit does with it

Mount
Read and write, in Finder
Offline cache
Metadata cache, read-ahead and write-back — the same volume stack as every other service
Encryption layer
Available on this connection: client-side, rclone-compatible crypt over the data before it leaves your Mac
Editions
Both. Either edition mounts it through File Provider, so it appears in Finder — and, on Standard, in the Files app on iPad and Vision Pro

The engineering ledger does not list Azure Files among the services run against a real server, so this page does not claim it was. That is read out of docs/BACKEND-COVERAGE.md in the app repository when this site is built — the build fails rather than let this page claim more than the ledger does.

The conformance record

No lane yet. No server has been stood up to run the corpus against this service, so there is no record to publish. That is the honest answer, not a pending one. Every service’s standing, side by side.

Azure Files questions

Can Mountit mount Azure Files?

Yes — Azure Files is one of the 38 services selectable in the app. It mounts read-write, with the same cache, read-ahead and write-back as every other service.

What we will not do is claim it works before it does: this page carries the ledger’s evidence level for Azure Files, and it changes the day the evidence does.

Which edition do I need?

Either — this service is in both editions. The difference is the surrounding app, not the protocol: Mountit Pro is the unsandboxed build with the block protocols; Standard is the Mac App Store build, and on iPad and Vision Pro every service appears in the Files app. Both mount this service through File Provider.