How to test Hybrid joining current on-prem devices to Azure

Question

My company wants to hybrid join some current on-prem devices to Azure to test to ensure that flipping the switch on AAD Connect wont cause any issues. Is there a way to do this? Are there any issues with converting the whole forest to hybrid if no devices or users have been targeted within Azure groups?

I can not find good documentation for this.

Answer 1

@Justin Lee, Thanks for posting in Q&A. It seems you want to do Hybrid Azure AD join for the devices in your domain.

Based as I know, before we do Hybrid Azure AD join, we can enable password hash to sync the device and user password to Azure AD. As a test, you can choose one OU just with the test device and test user in to sync to Azure AD. Here is a link with more details:

https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/active-directory/hybrid/how-to-connect-password-hash-synchronization#enable-password-hash-synchronization

After that, configure Hybrid Azure AD using the steps in the following link. In this link, there are two options. One is for managed domain and the other is for federation domain. If there's no federation domain in your environment, you can choose the steps under managed domain.

https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/active-directory/devices/howto-hybrid-azure-ad-join

You can verify the hybrid Azure AD join using the steps in the following link:

https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/active-directory/devices/howto-hybrid-join-verify

Then you can test if anything is affected on the test device. If everything is working, you can enable the password hash for all the devices in the domain to make them Hybrid Azure AD join.

If you want know more about Azure AD connect or Hybrid Azure AD join, you can contact Azure Active Directory support to get more help.

Hope the above information can help.

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