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Link existing Office 365 with new on premise AD

Hi all,

I have prio question regarding a setup which is ongoing;
Thanks for contribution.

Situation:
- Customer has an existing Office365 environment, currently only email services are in use
- E-Mail should stay in the cloud @Office365
- There's now an existing on premise AD with users for a Citrix infrastructure, already built and ready for use
- Customer still want's to be able to login to cloud to change the password, same as on the local on premise Citrix environment
(password sync and write back, both)
- So there are 2 "domains", one on premise, one in the cloud

Goal:
- User should use the on premise logins with outlook / exchange from the cloud
- Link the environemnts via Sync the on premise to the cloud, or migrate to a single environment

Way forward:
I'm looking forward to sync the on premise ad to the cloud with AzureAD connect.
Am I right, that i would have 2 ADS afterwards? How can I combine that scenario?
There are around 20 users - so can be handled manually if required.

Is there annother approach required?
- E.g. Sync on premise via azuread connect and migrate the mailboxes to the new synced environment

Thanks for clarification and hints,

Regards Teggra

teggra

ASKER

Hi all

Anyone an idea?
Maybe i missed something or mixed anything up.

Thanks
Teggra

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Vasil Michev (MVP)

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teggra

ASKER

Hi Vasil,
Thanks for your reply.

Sorry for confusing.
- Mailboxes are ONLY in the cloud. no exchange on premise.
- Customer has on premise citrix and access the cloud mailbox

I will study both methods but tend to softmatch because looks simpler to implement.
This looks very easy to implement.
- Match the Email adresses from office365 locally on the on premise AD user
- Configure AzureAD Sync
- Start Sync

I will check the situation in more detail and update this post.

Many thanks
regards
Teggra

teggra

ASKER

Hi Vasil,

Just to keep you updated;
The e-mail adresses have been applied on all on premise ad accounts.
For tomorrow I planned to connect AzureAD but at the beginning only with 1 test OU with 1 test user.
(sync only OU xy)
I assume that should be ok and not a problem to migrate afterwards the rest of the users.

Keep you updated.
regards, Teggra

teggra

ASKER

Hi Vasil,

thanks for your clarification - that helped me a lot regarding hard link or soft link.

regards
Albert