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Azure AD - ADFS accounts without synchronization
Hello guys, Couple of simple (I hope) questions: - is it possible to authenticate users through on-premise ADFS server in Azure without actually importing users to the Azure AD? Or the user always ...
Hi, you will need Azure AD Connect in order for this to work and have the users visible in Azure AD. Check out - https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/active-directory/hybrid/how-to-connect-fed-whatis
The AADC server does not have to be on the same server as AD FS though.
PeterRising so if I got that right - I may install and run Azure AD Connect on different machine and use it only for account synchronization, correct? This sounds promising.
About user synchronization - I was kind of hoping it won't be needed to import all these users (it's around 5k in this particular case) to AAD, I'm worried a bit about that (it could be a nightmare in terms of management).
Thanks for quick answer!
Regards
Tomasz