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Two different domains in one Office 365 tenant
Hi,
There can be only one Azure AD Connect instance for a single Azure tenant. This means, you have to use one AAD Connect instance for both companies, if you want to go single tenant.
Azure AD Connect supports connecting multiple forests to a single Azure AD tenant. A server that runs Azure AD Connect does not have to be joined to any domain locally, however, it must be able to access domain controllers in both forests.
In some cases, you can choose to place the Azure AD Connect server in a (DMZ), especially if you do not have a direct network connection to all forests that you would like to include in the synchronization.
If you need more information, you probable should tell what is your goal and how both companies must work together.
Hi Dominik and thanks for prompt reply.
As of now, the main goal is that both company can collaborate with each other in Office 365, but keep internal system seperate.
Not sure if its better they merge on-premise environment or go for the trust and use single AD connect.
thanks!
You are welcome.
From my perspective, if they want to manage their own on-premise Active Directory, use one AAD Connect instance and go to a single Azure tenant.
You can merge it later if you want, this is no problem. Depending of the AAD Connect server placement (domain joined, locally or DMZ) you need no trust relationship.
Make sure both admins from both companies have a good design decision what to sync, merge and which attributes are needed. Then this will be no problem.
Thanks Dominik,
Currently we do not have full overview of their environment and not sure which workload they want to migrate to Office 365.
My guess is that they have AADC joined to domain at CompanyA.
Will they need to create a trust between them for this setup to work?
Thanks!
- No forest trust necessary.
Make sure AADC is reachable from every forest.Thanks Dominik,
what about ADFS with single sign-on, it does not need trust between them either?
You mean they can freely collaborate in O365 without having any trust between their on-premise environment?
Trying to read up some documentations, but this scenario seems to be a bit vague