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Migrating On Prem AD to Azure AD and doing away completely with On Prem AD
Why are you looking into setting up an Azure IaaS DC?
I know the migration will be much smoother from an on-prem DC, but I would really recommend going with AAD. Creating users in AAD and joining computers to AAD.
The question still remains what is the best way to migrate from On-Prem to ADD. I inherited an account with some uses in ADD and some in On-Prem AD. They all have email accounts O365, so they have an ADD account but manages On-Prem. I'm trying to get them all managed in ADD but haven't figured out how. For now it looks like backup the email and Onedrive data. Delete the account in both places. Then recreated the account in ADD and restore email and data.
Is there a better way?
- This describes the process pretty well: https://www.sikich.com/insight/office-365-convert-an-active-directory-synced-account-to-cloud-only/
Thijs Lecomte But my customer already has synced users in Azure AD from On Prem and they have i guess PTA enabled and using AD Connect.So all the authentication is taking place at On Prem. So now if i shut down the On Prem DC suddenly , how will the Azure synced users authentication take place, the users are not born in the cloud but synced to Azure AD
- You will have to recreate the user profiles of the users when you do an Azure AD Join.
For users, you have to convert them to cloud only accounts (http://www.blogabout.cloud/2019/08/871/) - Using Azure AD-
You have to stop the sync and Leave the Users in AAD, but then you have to prepare you environment by removing PCs from domain+ have them login using AAD + changing pc profiles.
You have to prep the environment and may not work well if you have a lot of GPOs and traditional shared drives.
Moe
