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Tim Hunter
Sep 16, 2019Iron Contributor
Active Directory
We currently have our Active Directory running on a Windows Server 2016 machine. It seems to be working out well for us. If I were to use Azure AD, does that run along side my AD on Server 2016 or wo...
rosaliod
Sep 17, 2019Brass Contributor
Hello Azure AD is not a replacement for AD. It's an identity management platform for Microsofts Azure cloud. You can configure a hybrid identity model by using AAD Connect to sync users from your on premises AD to Azure AD. This will allow your organization to take advantage of features like SSO to sign into the different workloads mentioned in your post with same username and password.
Here is a starting point
https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/active-directory/hybrid/whatis-hybrid-identity
Here is a starting point
https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/active-directory/hybrid/whatis-hybrid-identity