Migrate from Hybrid Azure AD Join to Azure AD Join

Question

Hello,

We have currently set up AAD connect.

PCs are Hybrid Azure AD Joined and Corporate Intune Joined as well. We would like to decommission on prem DC and move completely to cloud.

From my understanding the only way to do it is to reset the PCs (or remove them from on prem DC) and join Azure AD. And since users are synced from on prem, I need to convert them to cloud users as well.

I have the following question:
If I reset the PC, I will have to remove it from Intune (or use autopilot) as well and join it again to Azure AD. Do I have to convert the synced users to cloud users before or after the Azure Join?

If there are other ways to migrate the PC from hybrid AD join to Azure AD join without having to reset/remove from on prem AD and rejoin again I would be very grateful if someone has some insights.

Thank you for your time.

Answer 1

@Georgi Krushovski Thanks for posting in our Q&A.

Based on my understanding, Azure AD connect have synced the targert OU which includes local users to Azure AD when you deployed Hybrid Azure AD. You can use the user which is listed in Azure AD portal to do Azure AD join.

Based on my research, I find someone has shared some information about migrating from Hybrid Azure AD Join to Azure AD Join. Please refer to the following link:

https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/answers/questions/500067/migration-from-hybrid-to-aad

Honestly, I haven't tried it and just a reference.

Hope it will give you some ideas.

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