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Azure, Office 365 and on premise Active directory sync

Hi All,

Hopefully an easy question.

We have a populated Office 365 enterprise tenant and a brand new internal domain that is going to be put in production shortly.

The outgoing network has a very messy AD which is why we are going fresh rather migrating.

My question is, with Windows Azure can I populate my new Active Directory by syncing from Office 365?

Many thanks

Vasil Michev (MVP)

What you can do is spin one DC in Azure, promote it as a DC for your domain, wait for AD replication and then if you want to, remove the on-prem DCs. It is a supported scenario and you can find a lot more information here:

http://technet.microsoft.com/library/dn509539.aspx

http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/windowsazure/jj156090.aspx

PurpleJelly

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Thanks, will take a read and feedback.

Appreciate your input!

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Jeffrey Kane - TechSoEasy

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PurpleJelly

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Hi Jeff,

Thanks for the comment.

From that link, none of the options (as far as I can tell) indicate that all user accounts on the Office 365 tenant can be synchronised to the local on premise Active Directory. It only shows that I can sync from AD to Office 365.

Jeffrey Kane - TechSoEasy

Sorry, you are right. I have been working a lot lately with Server 2012 Essentials which does a 2-way sync.

There are ways to get existing Office365 users into your AD though. This blog post shows one of them: http://blogs.4ward.it/how-to-map-onprem-active-directory-users-to-existing-office365-users/

How many users do you have overall?

Jeff