become the Azure AD cloud user to the internal AD

[Stefan Kießig]

Hello,

we have cloud only users in Azure AD. Now we like to create an internal AD. Is it possible to become the Azure AD cloud user to the internal AD?

The other way around I can use AD Connect.

Regards

Stefan

[#2]

There is no such way currently available with adconnect!
If it’s lot of users you could export users to a csv and Use PowerShell to add these users to your ad! And make sure you can match these with the cloud accounts when you sync them

[#3]

Yes. You scan setup the local AD and as long as the account login names match you can sync them using adconnect after the fact.

See https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/active-directory/hybrid/how-to-connect-install-existing-tenan...

[#4 · Accepted solution]

I was reading it as syncing users to on-premises AD! That’s not possible but as @Chris wrote, creating them I AD - and then merging them with the cloud users is indeed possible! :)

[#5]

Thanks for all your answer. How I can merge the users (onpremise and azure AD)?

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@adam deltinger wrote:
I was reading it as syncing users to on-premises AD! That’s not possible but as @Chris wrote, creating them I AD - and then merging them with the cloud users is indeed possible! :)

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[#6]

@Chris Webb

Another link for AdConnect:

https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/office365/enterprise/set-up-directory-synchronization

[#7]

Yes. When you run azure ad connect, you have an option to choose from a bunch of user properties to match on premises user to an existing azure ad user. It's easiest if they have same SMTP account.
Details here: https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/active-directory/hybrid/how-to-connect-install-existing-tenan...