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Feb 06, 2024

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AAD join Server 2025

Hi, Wondering if Server 2025 can be AAD joined. this would help some businesses that have their laptops joined as well as would also like to have the option to join their Server for their line o...

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Brentfor
Sep 16, 2025
Hi Karl,

We are making incremental progress in that direction. Please take a look at this documentation for enabling Entra join and sign-in on Arc-enabled Windows Servers located anywhere. This has GA'd for WS2025.

Sign in to a Windows virtual machine in Azure by using Microsoft Entra ID - Microsoft Entra ID | Microsoft Learn

Note that the Arc-enabled Server cannot be joined to AD or HAADJ (or Entra Domain Services).

Thanks,
Brent

Brentfor

Microsoft

Feb 07, 2024

lpmuu

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!

stefana1890

Copper Contributor

Oct 26, 2024

Brentfor

I think most people want a hybrid solution for many types of applications. Such as NPS/RADIUS, Terminal server, MFA hybrid, file synchronization to SharePoint

Brentfor
Microsoft
Oct 28, 2024
stefana1890

Thank you for the feedback!