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Changing computer domains when using Azure AD Sync
- Dec 05, 2018Considering the only thing that really matters to azureAD sync is the users, there should be no affect since you have the domains in the now same tenant. The biggest thing would be if you have any kind of security groups with devices in them you'll need to look that over, but from a 365 perspective, it shouldn't matter, the device is just moving over.
Of course. So company B and company A were completely separate. Both have their own AD domains and both had their own Office 365 tenants with all their domains and users. Both were using Azure AD sync to sync users for passwords, etc. When Company A purchased Company B, we used Bit Titan Migration to copy all the users from B into A's 365 tenant. Now company B's 365 tenant is no longer used and the licenses were removed. All the domains, mailboxes etc now exist in Company A's tenant. There is a two way trust between the two domains so when the sync runs from the company A server it can see all the users in the B domain and still sync the passwords.
Administration now wants to take all the computers that are on the B domain and move them to the A domain in the local AD. So all the mailboxes live in one 365 tenant yet are being synced from two separate domains.
- Ryan AshDec 05, 2018Copper Contributor
That is what i was assuming but wanted to ask. I will check out the groups as you recommended but thank you fro the assistance with this. I plan do so some testing but wanted to have an idea going into it as to what the steps may be.
- Dec 05, 2018Don't forget too when you switch domains, you'll have to redo profiles. There are tools that can reassign sid's to profiles so you can use your existing profile by joining a new domain. Profwiz being one, but I'm sure there are others if you don't have anything for that because you will need to handle the profile during a domain change or setup from scratch which is not fun :).