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Local Network Share with Azure AD Users
Thanks for the reply.
After an entire day of fiddling and messing around with ImmutableIDs and whatnot, I have managed to pull user accounts down from AAD to our on-prem AD! 🙂
The issue is user laptops are connected to AAD not on-prem AD, so if the user changes their password, they wont connect/authenticate with the on-prem file shares.
We can't justify $8/ser/mo, so I guess i'm going to have to ask users nicely for their passwords haha.
andrewvinci it seems you are now using AAD as primary user repo and authentication engine, therefore, it might be easier to either ask for the passwords, or move the file shares to the cloud that would be the best solution but not the cheapest one 🙂
Regards,
Charbel Hanna
Charbelhanna Hello Charbel,
Thanks for the reply. Actually moving files to the cloud is technically and functionally impossible for us.
I have asked for some help on this, but i don't think there is a solution. https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/t5/sharepoint/sharing-a-shortcut-and-hyperlink-in-file-explorer/m-p/1570970#M43668
The issue is a lot of our core files need sharable location paths. A simple example is a folder path for an excel macro. There is no way we can get a path for User A that is the same as User B. Unfortunately this is preventing our move to cloud folders.
I have just resorted to asking users for passwords. It just looks incredibly unprofessional and people are wondering why Microsoft has such a half baked solution. I tell them it costs $10/user/mo to sync passwords, and now they just think Microsoft is stingy haha.