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dinesh singh
Oct 13, 2018Copper Contributor
Multi-Forest AAD Connect (Office 365) to New Azure AD tenant-Office 365 Tenant
Hello Experts,
Looking for your expertise on following scenario :
We have two on-premise Active Directory Forest with separate Azure Tenant (Office 365)
1. Forest A.Com -->AD Connect-->Azure AD (O365 Tenant A)
2. Forest B.Com-->AD Connect-->Azure AD (O365 Tenant B)
Now, we want to consolidate both Azure AD (O365 Tenant A and Tenant B) to a single tenant called "Tenant C", but on-premises AD DS will be remain same.
As, we can go "Multiple forests, separate topologies" scenario on below post:
But, same time we have to migrate the mailboxes from Tenant A and Tenant B to Tenant C,
Here are the steps what we are planning:
- We can do initial sync Forest A -->AAD Sync --> Azure AD Tenant C ( for creating the users in Tenant C) "The UPNs of the users in the on-premises Active Directory instance must also use separate namespaces"
- Use the 3rd party tool to move mailboxes from Tenant A to Tenant C (to map the UPN) -Stage-Sync (95%)
- Same process for Forest B and Tenant B.
- Configure AAD Connect (multi-forest A & B) to Azure AD Tenant C and start sync (over night/weekend) with matching the namespace.
- Cutover the mailbox migration to Tenant C
- Remove the Azure AD Tenant A and Tenant B from AAD Connect
Your expertise will highly appreciate to correct me on this.
Thank you!
- I believe it looks ok as long as you keep the namespaces separate! You’re not doing any domain migrations?
- dinesh singhCopper Contributor
Yes, we are not doing any domain migration.