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dammyfaruq1994
Jun 11, 2020Copper Contributor
Best Identity Strategy for Deploying Windows Virtual Desktop
Hello Team, We are looking at deploying Windows Virtual Desktop, We have a local Active directory and we used AD Connect to synchronize our users identities to Azure. Now, we are looking at the best ...
dammyfaruq1994
Jun 11, 2020Copper Contributor
Thanks so much for your response.
I'm aware that we can deploy ADDS in azure, spin up a VM in azure and promote it to a DC for administrative use.
But which other way do you think we can use to connect our local AD with Azure so as to deploy WVD.
Thank you in advance.
CMurphyUSA
Jun 12, 2020Brass Contributor
Some form of ipsec tunnel from azure to your on-prem resources will do the trick to join them to your local domain via your on-prem DCs.
https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/vpn-gateway/vpn-gateway-howto-site-to-site-resource-manager-portal
Once you have that in place you can eventually place DCs in Azure for possibly lower latency and better performance.
- dammyfaruq1994Jun 13, 2020Copper ContributorHi Murphy
Thanks so much for this