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Paul Bendall
Aug 23, 2021Iron Contributor
Onboard Azure Arc at scale during server build
 I think I've got a fairly good handle on Azure Arc having read many documents and a few blogs. I like what I see and the potential to deliver many of the benefits of cloud to our datacentres as we mo...
liorkamrat Microsoft
Microsoft
Aug 23, 2021Thank you Paul Bendall, a valid question.
Are you referring to something like a managed identity-based solution?
Lior
- Paul BendallAug 24, 2021Iron Contributorliorkamrat I guess two parts to my question: - How are organisations doing this today based on the technology that is currently available?
- Is this something that will be improved going forward?
 None of the described onboarding solutions in the Arc documents provided a non-interactive, elegant solution that I have so far discovered. I'm aware that once Arc is deployed then you can use Managed Identities but that is kind of chicken and egg. 
 I see the problem as how does Azure (probably more accurately Azure AD) authenticate a new on-prem device to register with Arc? My feeling is either us certificates issued by on-prem AD CS, or a type of hybrid join for servers whereby new servers are projected into Azure AD using Azure AD Connect.
 Paul