Helo all,
I am trying to setup Azure AD connect for an Enterprise. They have local active directory on "internal.theirdomain.com", with local server DNS being setup for that too.
However in their Azure AD they have some accounts already under "theirdomain.com". This active directory has 3 domains associated with it: theirdomain.com, internal.theirdomain.com and theridomain.onmicrosoft.com where the first one is the primary.
I installed the Azure AD connect and set it up on the local server handling internal.theirdomain.com and after sync this happens:
local accounts go to Azure with ".internal.theirdomain.com", but accounts in the cloud are not downloaded.
Also, upon assigning a license to the accounts uploaded their email address is sent from "#theirdomain.onmicrosoft.com" while emails sent from their cloud accounts is sent from "#theirdomain.com". Do you happen to have any ideas on how to fix these:
have cloud accounts synced to local AD
have default email domain be "theirdomain.com" for all accounts
The one problem I can see for now is that "internal.theirdomain.com" is not resolvable from internet. I am adding that into their internet DNS but was wondering if you have any other tips.
Thanks a lot
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I have mounted an azure file share on an azure VM using access keys ,the VM is not doman joined with the azure active directory instance.Please let me know if below scenario's will work out:-
If i apply acl's on the folders and sub folders will the acl's be
enforced in the mounted drive on the VM?
Will AZURE RBAC apply if someone tries to upload a file from the VM?
Note:- The Azure VM is on a VNET which has access to azure active directory.
Any information/answer/suggestion on the above questions would be greatly appreciated.
ACLs can exist for domain or non-domain accounts. Having a machine that is not domain joined, can obviously not set domain ACLs. So in that case local-server ACLs is all you can hope to get.
If another server mounts the share, and there is not another local user account + SID mapping, then there is no way these ACLs have any meaning on the second machine. But they will be enforced.
So that one will work albeit questionable in terms of usefulness.
RBAC is really a management plane construct. Meant to govern who can manage which Azure resource --> not access which data planes. Now in the case of AD / AAD DS support for Azure file shares, the team has decided to "stretch" the meaning of RBAC to govern share-level ACLs via Kerberos (where normal RBAC is OAuth only!)
Enough of the backend: What this basically means, is that there can be no support for local server accounts.
THese accounts only exist on a local server, not in AAD and certainly not DIRSYNC'ed from on-prem AD into AAD. So that means RBAC cannot work for local accounts, only for domain accounts.
I'm unclear what your scenario is.
A user coming into the server with some sort of local user credential?
Then creating/copying a file into a mounted Azure file share to that VM? --> That can work because there is no RBAC and since this is all happening through that single server that has that local user account, ACLs for these local accounts work natively.
A user coming into the server with a domain cred? --> will not work as the server isn't domain joined.
A user coming in with a local-server account and then using the Azure file share not via SMB mount but by going to the Azur file share directly: Cannot work because it's not a domain account and non-dimain accounts cannot work against Azure file shares. You'd use the srtorage access key to mount the file share to the VM, then you have access and leave auth. to the server with the set of local accounts.
Before you enable Azure AD over SMB for Azure file shares, make sure you have completed the following prerequisites:
Select or create an Azure AD tenant.
You can use a new or existing tenant for Azure AD authentication over SMB. The tenant and the file share that you want to access must be associated with the same subscription.
To create a new Azure AD tenant, you can Add an Azure AD tenant and an Azure AD subscription. If you have an existing Azure AD tenant but want to create a new tenant for use with Azure file shares, see Create an Azure Active Directory tenant.
Enable Azure AD Domain Services on the Azure AD tenant.
To support authentication with Azure AD credentials, you must enable Azure AD Domain Services for your Azure AD tenant. If you aren't the administrator of the Azure AD tenant, contact the administrator and follow the step-by-step guidance to Enable Azure Active Directory Domain Services using the Azure portal.
It typically takes about 15 minutes for an Azure AD DS deployment to complete. Verify that the health status of Azure AD DS shows Running, with password hash synchronization enabled, before proceeding to the next step.
Domain-join an Azure VM with Azure AD DS.
To access a file share by using Azure AD credentials from a VM, your VM must be domain-joined to Azure AD DS. For more information about how to domain-join a VM, see Join a Windows Server virtual machine to a managed domain.
Note:Azure AD DS authentication over SMB with Azure file shares is supported only on Azure VMs running on OS versions above Windows 7 or Windows Server 2008 R2.
Select or create an Azure file share.
Select a new or existing file share that's associated with the same subscription as your Azure AD tenant. For information about creating a new file share, see Create a file share in Azure Files. For optimal performance, we recommend that your file share be in the same region as the VM from which you plan to access the share.
Verify Azure Files connectivity by mounting Azure file shares using your storage account key.
To verify that your VM and file share are properly configured, try mounting the file share using your storage account key. For more information, see Mount an Azure file share and access the share in Windows.
I am trying to setup my Windows Server to host user Roaming Profiles and Data but am having trouble.
I am using Azure AD Domain Services and have a powerful VM running Windows Server 2016 with AD that lists all the users synced from Azure AD.
When I try to view the profiles and add users home directories with: \[ServerName]\UserHomes$%Username%, the folders are created correctly but I get an access denied message.
I am using the Global Admin account and believe that permissions are set up correctly on the UserHomes directory.
When I view an individual user, I am not able to add a home directory since this item is disabled.
Am I going about this the wrong way since we are using the Azure AD DS and not a single on premises server AD?
Appreciate any help or guidance!
You can deploy your on-premises environment on the cloud. After deploying AD DS you will be able to create the roaming profile for the on-premises users.
If it is cloud only environment you can use enterprise roaming to share your profile among your cloud joined devices. You cannot use Global admin to manage Home directory.
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've inherited a mess from the IT "professional" I replaced and have been unable to successfully lobby for resources to setup a proper domain. I have Windows 10 PC's that are configured as "organizational" PC's not Personal, which allows our users to sign-in with their office365 accounts.
However when they do this they are logged in via AzureAD\ Domain, I'm certain this is the reason they cannot access the shared drives my organization has been using. I would very much like to keep using this AzureAD setup but if I cannot access local network resources it won't work for me.
I've searched around but maybe I haven't been asking the right question to find a solution to my problem, or it's possible one doesn't exist which would be unfortunate.
Has anyone ran into this issue?
Is there a way to access non-AzureAD domain resources from an AzureAD\User Account?
You will need a DC (a virtual machine (VM) in the cloud or a physical server).
That DC has Azure Active Directory (AAD) Connect installed and configured on it. That creates an account in AD that synchronizes accounts and passwords with AAD.
When a computer joined to AAD logs in it sends the login request to AAD. AAD then validates that authentication request against the information synchronized from AD.
If you have workstations and laptops joined to AAD and they try to access a share on a server that is in a different domain than what AAD synchronizes with you are going to need to provide credentials that exist in the server which hosts the resources, you are trying to access.
There are a few right ways to do this as,
If the clients are in a single location and will always be in the same location as the DC then join them to the domain regularly. For clients that will be used in other locations join those computers to AAD and install AAD Connect in the DC.
If you want to move all the servers out of your office spin up a VM for your DC in Azure and deploy a cloud firewall in front of your VM. Create a Site-to-Site Virtual Private Network (VPN) between the cloud firewall and your office firewall. Now join computers that will always be in the office to the domain like normal, join computers that are going to be used remotely to AAD, and install AAD Connect on the DC.
Refer: Windows 10 AAD Azure ad domain joined & SMB share, where similar discussion has been done
My small company (about 100 users) is currently using Office 365. There have previously not been any domain controller. I am building an on premise domain controller and want to sync it with Azure Active Directory (Office 365). I used the sync service, with a small subset of users to no avail.
My main question: Can you sync FROM an Azure Active Directory to a new on premise Active Directory? My understanding is that it's the opposite - the on premise Active Directory is the "master" if you will. Is there a way to set it up the opposite? As in, Office 365 being the "master" or "seed" for an on premise?
At present, the Azure AD connect support the Password writeback, Group writeback and Device writeback.
You can refer the options features of Azure AD Connect from here.
At this point in time, synchronizing users FROM Azure AD to on-premises AD is NOT possible.
As Fei Xue pointed out, there are certain things (such as user passwords, groups and devices) that can be synchronized back to on-prem AD, but not users.
Depending on what you are trying to achieve, Azure Active Directory DS might be worth exploring as it allows you to create a VNet in Azure which has a AD-like support (LDAP, Active Directory domain join, NTLM, and Kerberos authentication).
More info on Azure AD DS: https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/services/active-directory-ds/