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Jacob John
Copper Contributor
Jun 01, 2020

Merging on prem domain with cloud domain to manage in Azure AD

Hi, We created a O365 tenant with a domain "abcd.edu" and assigned all our users credentials online (azure AD) because we were not ready to migrate the on-prem maiboxes which are on another domain a...
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Thijs Lecomte
Bronze Contributor
Jun 01, 2020
I would you advise you to setup Azure AD Connect and match all on-prem users to the cloud users. That way users have single sign-on access to the cloud.

Office 365 will disable the cloud mailbox and will continue utilizing the on-prem mailbox of all users until you have migrated them
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    Jacob John
    Copper Contributor
    Jun 02, 2020

    Thanks Thijs Lecomte . If I get you right, the steps would be to do a soft match first and use on-prem credentials in step 1. Then migrate the users to the cloud and stop using Azure AD connect? I am trying to be sure that soft matching does not prevent me from passing the source of authority back to Azure AD once my migration is over. 

    Jacob

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      Thijs Lecomte
      Bronze Contributor
      Jun 02, 2020
      Could you elaborate more on your end goal?
      Would you like all users to be in AAD and not in AD anymore?
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        jebujohn
        Copper Contributor
        Jun 08, 2020

        The covid situation here is quite bad and I got caught with my clinical responsibilities for the last week.

        Thijs Lecomte  we are hoping to manage all users on AAD once the migration is done. No role for AD after the migration. 

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