Azure AD Only joined PC accessing an on-prem file server with no on-prem AD

Question

We are currently a hybrid AD environment aiming to go entirely cloud based by eliminating local AD and joining machines to Azure only. However we have a couple of departments that still have on-prem file servers. These file servers are fairly large in capacity and migrating to Azure Files is not in the budget.

Is there a way that we can have Azure AD only joined PCs authenticate against an on-prem file server once our on-prem AD has been removed?

Or is there a way that an on-prem file server could be joined to Azure AD?

Answer 1

Hi, if You using intune you can try use policy to map network drive for users

https://uga.teamdynamix.com/TDClient/3159/KB/KB/ArticleDet?ID=160890

But they will still require to use On prem AD username and Password

As fas as i know, you cant join server as Entra ID Joined, only create VM in Azure and login in with Entra ID credentials. But still on prem server file share may have permission AD users, not m365.

So theres 2 way only:

Hybrid joined computers (for better GPO disk MAP and same credentials)

Entra Joined PC with Intune and disk map and maybe you will find a way little automate username and password input on mapped disk