migrating on premise Active Directory to the Cloud.

Question

I have a Physical Server HP Proliant Ml350 Gen 10 with Windows server 2016 as an Primary Domain Controller and 30 workstations joined to it locally. I want to move to Azure and decommission the old server and do not touch the Windows user profile. what is the best way to achieve this? If I need to replicate the AD to the clous what is the best way to connect the physical server to the VM using site to site VPN? I have a Sonicwall TZ370 as the router generating the DHCP.

I appreciate your help.

Jamshid

Answer 1

@Jamshid Javidi ,

Welcome to the Microsoft Q&A Platform. Thank you for reaching out & I hope you are doing well.

I am afraid I did not understand your exact requirement here.

Do you want to know

• The best practices for connecting Azure VMs (Virtual Network) to OnPrem

or

• Questions related to Active Directory

If it's #1,

• Yes, you can consider using VPN Gateway to establish a Site to Site Tunnel
• See : Validated VPN devices and device configuration guides
  • I can see Sonicwall TZ Series being supported.

More details on VPN Gateway :

• Azure VPN Gateway - About
• About gateway SKUs - This is regarding performance, bandwidth and Throuhput
• Create a VPN gateway using the Azure portal
• Create a site-to-site VPN connection - Once done, All resources in Azure VNET can connect to OnPrem resources and vice versa

Cheers,

Kapil