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Copper Contributor

Oct 24, 2020

On-prem AD account creation in a Hybrid Enivornment

We are having Hybrid environment our AD server will be sync using Azure connector to Azure AD, and we have OUs for each branch, Is their any way we can Connect on-prem AD server to create a user so ...

Identity Management

Thijs Lecomte

Bronze Contributor

Oct 25, 2020

Not sure what the question is here?

You can specify filter settings with AAD Connect. Every user will be sync'ed to AAD.
You need to create the user in AD first before it syncs to AAD

Syed Rabbani
Copper Contributor
Oct 27, 2020
Thijs Lecomte is there any connector for AD server like SQL we have in powerapps?
actually i am using powerapp for creating new user accounts, when creating users it directly added in to my Azure, instead i wanted the account to be create in on-prem AD server, then the dir sync will propagate the user in the Azure. hope this is clear for you. or API is a must..
- Thijs Lecomte
  Bronze Contributor
  Oct 29, 2020
  Syed Rabbani
  I think for your case, you need to look into Azure Automation and Hybrid Workers
  https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/automation/automation-hybrid-runbook-worker
- Arpit720
  Copper Contributor
  Oct 27, 2020
  Syed Rabbani I am not sure about PowerApps. However, you can use PowerShell script to create user on premises and then sync to Azure AD. Look at below examples for more info
  https://gallery.technet.microsoft.com/office/Onboarding-New-Users-in-an-706f5efd#content
  https://www.itpromentor.com/bulk-hybrid-user/