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MicrosoftUpdates to auto sign in with on-prem Active Directory accounts
Hi Avi
Are you able to clarify a couple of points for me?
We have on-premise AD, Azure AD Connect syncing users to Office 365, with all services cloud-hosted. I thought I might be able to get automatic sign-in to each user's Office 365 identity in the same way Office apps do but from reading your post it sounds like this isn't possible (yet?)
1. (I hope this doesn't sound facetious.) What is the benefit of having the user sign into Edge with the on-premise AD account, if not to sync with the associated AzureAD/Office365 identity? Does it just improve authentication with on-premise services?
2. If we hybrid-join our domain PCs, will users that login in the standard way (DOMAIN\Username) then be signed in with their AzureAD/Office365 identity automatically? Or do they then need to start logging in using their e-mail address or similar?
Cheers!
Chris
Avi Vaidsheffieldc Chris, great questions. As of now we don't have a way to get auto sign in with the O365 account without hybrid joining. Some thoughts on your questions below:
- The benefits are having a specified work profile, this helps with windows information protection features. It will also come into play in the future when we enable on-premise sync and if we create preferred SSO with the signed in account
- Yes. If you hybrid join your domain PC, users can log into windows as DOMAIN\Username and then be signed into Edge with their AAD (O365) accounts automatically.
sheffieldc Hi Sheffieldc! Forgive me for resurrecting this old thread, but did you ever find a way to have users automatically sign into their Azure AD accounts, in edge, while their PC is on-premise domain joined?
Thanks very much!
