Join on prem computers to azure ad

Question

Hi all,

We have computers that are joined to local AD and we would like to join them even in azure AD. What we need to do?

Second question: Is there an option to mass add computers to azure ad without manually login to each one with user creds. Keep in mind that all computers must be joined to local domain as well.

Answer 1

@KakTak-8938, Thank you for reaching out. Yes you can keep the machines (Windows 10) in both states that is joined to local AD as well as joined to Azure AD. This type of setup is referred to as Hybrid AAD join scenario. In this case your machine remains joined to the on-prem AD as well as to Azure AD and here the machine join to azure AD happens in machine's context and not in user's context. Hence after your machines get joined to Azure AD, your cloud users can simply login using their upn and experience a whole new SSO experience.

You can refer to the following articles below for a proper deployment:

1. Plan the hybrid AAD join implementation: https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/active-directory/devices/hybrid-azuread-join-plan
2. Controlled validation of Hybrid AAD join: https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/active-directory/devices/hybrid-azuread-join-control
3. Configure Hybrid AAD join for managed domains: https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/active-directory/devices/hybrid-azuread-join-managed-domains
4. Configure Hybrid AAD join for federated domains: https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/active-directory/devices/hybrid-azuread-join-federated-domains
5. First Run Experience with Hybrid AAD joined machines: https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/active-directory/devices/azuread-joined-devices-frx

Hope this helps.

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Answer 2

@soumi-MSFT would be the devices wipe out or clean in this method?