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I am trying to work my way through the tricky world of Azure and AD connect. In short I have a central sites with a domain, I have multiple smaller sites with just a few machines. I want to join those machines also to the domain. I was thinking rather than trying to join the machines over a VPN to the domain could I simply create a member server in azure which would allow for the smaller sites to connect directly? Is this even possible
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I am trying to work my way through the tricky world of Azure and AD connect. In short I have a central sites with a domain, I have multiple smaller sites with just a few machines. I want to join those machines also to the domain. I was thinking rather than trying to join the machines over a VPN to the domain could I simply create a member server in azure which would allow for the smaller sites to connect directly? Is this even possible

Joining machines to an azure hosted member server

Microsoft Azure is a cloud computing platform and infrastructure for building, deploying and managing applications and services through datacenters. It provides both platform-as-a-service (PaaS) and infrastructure-as-a-service (IaaS) services and supports many different programming languages, tools and frameworks, including both Microsoft-specific and third-party software and systems. Cloud Services is a PaaS environment and can be used to create scalable applications and services; there are specific software development kits (SDKs) provided by Microsoft for Python, Java, Node.js and .NET. Azure also has file and storage services, data management, analytics and DNS services.

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A virtual private network (VPN) is a network that uses a public telecommunication infrastructure, such as the Internet, to provide remote offices or travelling users access to a central organizational network securely. VPNs encapsulate data transfers using secure cryptographic methods and other security mechanisms to ensure that only authorized users can access the network and that the data cannot be intercepted.