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Can someone help me with this scenario;
We are planning to move from on premise AD to Azure AD.
All colleagues have an Office 365 E3 account and will have added their Office 365 account to their device for Single Sign On and device registration.
What are the next steps and what happens to the user profile?
Disconnect from AD?
How can I get the logon screen after starting the device to log on as an Office 365 user?
Are the user profiles lost?
Is everybody still a member of the local administrators group as they where when AD joined?
Is the way to go WIndows ICD?
I know a lot of questions, but I hope someone can help me or guide me to a good resource.
Thanks a lot in advance!
Hello Richard,
Congratulations on your planned move to the cloud. Your post raises a good number of related questions.
First, it sounds as if you created cloud-only accounts and did not synchronize user and group objects from the on premises AD using Azure AD Connect. Is that correct?
In addition to Office 365 have you licensed (or do you plan to) EM+S, which includes Azure AD Premium and Intune? In a cloud-only scenario, Intune is the management point for your devices and the mechanism to deploy device policies.
What Operating System(s) are you running? And approximately how many devices are you managing: a few dozen, or a few thousand?
Without a more detailed understanding of your environment and goals, I hesitate to make any firm recommendations. May I suggest you read through a number of topics and post back to this forum?:
Azure AD Join for domain joined machines: https://cloudblogs.microsoft.com/enterprisemobility/2016/02/17/azure-ad-domain-join-windows-10/
Azure AD Connect: https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/active-directory/connect/active-directory-aadconnect
AutoPilot for Windows 10: https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/deployment/windows-10-auto-pilot
Intune: https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/intune/
Michael
