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Do I need AD if i am going to use azure AD and O365?
we have a somewhat unique situation (from upper management). We will have a small subset of staff who will be working with us but they are not part of our company. They will be a separate business but we will provide IT support. We will set up their public domain and get them O365 (which will includes SharePoint/One drive removing the need for any files servers). The only issue I have is authentication, the staff will be working remotely, would azure ad join make sense here? By default SharePoint/One drive already requires you to log in before you can do anything. I'm failing to see what Azure AD join will bring to the table.
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yes, we ruled out Local Active Directory but from what I understand Azure AD Join is separate from local active directory and provides sign in authentication. And allows access to cloud services so I am not sure if that means that once you authenticate with Azure AD join on a device you automatically get access to sharepoint/O365 and one drive without additional authentication.
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ahh I see, thanks.I still not sure what the point of Azure AD Join is for. I will separate help request for that.
If you want Group Policies and Local Management only then do you need ADDS locally