Forum Discussion
Merge/move 2 AD's and 1 Office 365 tenant to new AD
- Jan 23, 2019
Hi,
This is based purely on what you have outlined above and it's a personal opinion - others will have their own.
1.) Cut AAD Connect on Location two so the AD and 365 tenant is separate.
2.) Set all 365 users UPN to @company.com, mail addresses remain the same
3.) Build new Forest corp.company.com
4.) Consolidate the AD's into the new forest
5.) In AD all users to have a UPN Suffix of @company.com, or UPN of @company.com
6.) Install Member Server/Azure AD Connect
7.) Ensure the AD objects have the right mail address
8.) Soft match the users from new Forest to 365
That's a general overview. It's probably best to take a step back and disentangle what's there first even if it means having cloud users and separate credentials for a period of time.
Hope that helps
Best, Chris
Oh yes, I like this idea. I knew I would probably have to take a step or two backwards, but I never considered disconnecting O365.
So basically to super simplify it,
- disconnect the sync,
- create new forest
- join domains to new forest
- reconnect to original tenant
What if before reconnecting to O365 I wanting to merge old AD's to forest domain? Would you recommend ADMT?
Thanks,
Remo
- Remo PistorJan 23, 2019Copper ContributorAD's are not overly complicated or large. Probably less than 500 objects.
- Jan 23, 2019Alright! I’ll think you do good : )
Adam