Hello and thank you for reading.
We have Office 365 users and licenses and have recently moved into Azure. We want to connect these together.
I have created a domain controller but am unsure on how to add our existing domain in.
I have tried Azure AD Connect but it asks for 'AD Domain Services administrator', which we do not have. We have no on-premise AD at all, we want to start fresh in the cloud.
Any info would be greatly appreciated.
Thank you
If you have Office 365 license then you will have Azure Active directory services by default.
If you don't have any on-premises domain then there is no need for Azure AD connect.
Azure AD connect is used to sync the users from on-prem AD to Azure AD.
In order to add and register your existing domain in Azure , please follow this article (domain controller is not needed)
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My organisation use Active Directory on-premise (windows server 2012). We also use Office 365 E1.
Logins are different. We add accounts independly.
Now we are however are thinking about using Ad Connect, but we have some concerns.
Will we lose any data on Teams after integration?
Will our users be able to access data previously attached to theirs Azure Active Directory account?
How can we match AAD users with on-premise AD. It uses aliases?
Following MS documents should give a head start for your requirement.
How objects and credentials are synchronized in an Azure Active Directory Domain Services managed domain
Integrate on-premises AD with Azure
Integrate on-premises AD domains with Azure AD
Azure AD Connect: When you have an existing tenant
Microsoft 365 integration with on-premises environments
we have been using office 365 E3 for the past number of years. we would like to configure a windows 2019 essentials server locally for file storage and a few shared applications (ie quickbooks multi-user).
is there a process to pull the user information from azure active directory to the local server? any advice is greatly appreciated.
thank you!!
If my understanding is correct, you really want is to be able to grant admin rights to your Azure AD users and allow them to login to the server with their regular Azure AD credentials.
If yes, then most optimum way of doing is to have on prem AD and have you user synced up from Azure AD to local AD. Azure AD Connect comes pretty handy in this scenario.
You can also take a look at Azure AD DS, Azure Active Directory Domain Services (Azure AD DS) provides managed domain services such as domain join, group policy, lightweight directory access protocol (LDAP), and Kerberos / NTLM authentication that is fully compatible with Windows Server Active Directory. You use these domain services without the need to deploy, manage, and patch domain controllers in the cloud. Azure AD DS integrates with your existing Azure AD tenant, which makes it possible for users to sign in using their existing credentials.
https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/active-directory-domain-services/overview
Check this link as well for additional reference:
https://serverfault.com/questions/808047/how-to-manage-on-premise-servers-using-azure-ad-credentials
Hope it helps.
I am not sure this is possible, but can Azure AD be trusted by a local on-premises domain?
I can see plenty of information on extending the local domain into Azure, but my requirement is more of less the reverse of this.
Ideally I would like the local domain to trust Azure AD, but as an alternative
could Azure AD DS be used to extend Azure AD into an Azure AD DS domain and then have a two way trust with the local domain?
I am not sure this is possible, but can Azure AD be trusted by a local
on-premises domain?
As I know, there is no way to make Azure AD be trusted by a local on-premise domain.
Azure AD is used for authentication for Internet-based services such as Office 365 and Azure, as well as much more, including Facebook and thousands of other services that are already federated with Azure AD (which mean they trust Azure AD without you having to do anything other than enable that application or service to be used by your users).
Your on-premises Active Directory can be synced to Azure AD by using Azure AD Connect (including password sync) and federation. This allows users on their corporate assets to log on with their AD account and when they access Internet services, such as Office 365, authentication with Azure AD just happens seamlessly via the federation, allowing access to all the different services that Azure AD is federated with.
Azure AD Domain Services provides managed domain services such as domain join, group policy, LDAP, Kerberos/NTLM authentication that are fully compatible with Windows Server Active Directory. You can consume these domain services without the need for you to deploy, manage, and patch domain controllers in the cloud. Azure AD Domain Services integrates with your existing Azure AD tenant, thus making it possible for users to log in using their corporate credentials.
How do I migrate an existing OU-structure from the old AD to the new Azure AD?
I have been trying to configure the Azure AD Connector Synchronization Tool for this but without success. Not sure what configuration it is supposed to have.
Anyone know? Thanks.
Do you mean the “old AD” is on-premise AD? In some ways, Windows Azure AD is an extension of the on-premise Active Directory, but not all features available in Azure AD. Azure AD does have a domain name, it does contain users and groups. It contains Service Principals, like on-premise AD, that represent applications. But there is no tree of domains, no trusts between domains or forests. Indeed there are no forests, no Group Policy, no OUs.
If you want to create OU, please try Azure AD Domain Services which supports to create custom Organizational Units and group policy in some limited way.
https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/documentation/articles/active-directory-ds-features/
Is it possible to create Users on an on-premise AD domain controller and use "Office 365 Exchange Online" as the Exchange server with out creating the users on Office 365? or does one has to have it on both for to work?
Here's an overview for setting up directory sync for on-premises AD and O365.
And here's the Technet article that seems to walk you through each step.