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AAD join Server 2025
Hi, Brent here from the Windows Server team. Can I ask you to elaborate a bit more on how you would use Entra ID device join on Windows Servers? When is it most painful to be missing this capability? Servers in the cloud, Servers at the edge, in your datacenter? Would you use this with traditional AD or no? Would this be most convenient for configuring and deploying, or troubleshooting, or other tasks? You mention accessing corporate resources from the Server, would to know more about this. Thanks!
Microsoftworkalotdave Thank you for the feedback. This makes sense. How many user accounts do you typically have to manage for Servers at the edge today? Have you tried Entra ID pass-through and/or AD federation services?
Brentfor Sorry for the delay. We have around 10 admins that administer edge boxes. We don't have a local domain and do not want to setup a Active Directory instance on azure just for this. If we provision boxes from azure they have AAD join / authentication built-in so it already exists but its not available to just download and use.
- I agree with workalotdave here. Especially when you need end users to be able to access resources on that on-prem box.
I was able to add a work account on the default admin of my 2025 test system, and then log into the system with my Entra ID user. Granted almost all of my compliance and configuration policies failed to run. (note: that same user cannot access a share from another AAD Joined system)- BrentforWhich build were you using?
