SMB support for Azure Active Directory

Question

Hi All,

Trying to find SMB support against Azure Active Directory.

As SMB protocol(indirectly from clients) is mostly NTLM and kerberos driven for authentication and Azure Active Directory doesn't support neither of NTLM and Kerberos, anyone aware of any way to support SMB file access against pure Azure Active Directory.

As Microsoft supports, only documented way for SMB file access support is using either on-prem Active Directrory or Azure Active Directory Domain Services managed domain. No way to directly integrate SMB based file access for Azure Active Directory.

Do anyone aware of any way to achieve SMB file access against Azure Active Directory natively - without Azure Active Directory Domain Services?

As of today, if there is no way to achieve SMB support for Azure Active Directory, is Microsoft planning to support SMB against Azure Active Directory in future?

Can someone from Microsoft share their SMB roadmap support against Azure Active Directory?

Thanks,
Lokesh

Answer 1

Any response, please?

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Answer 2

@Lokesh Babu Firstly, apologies for the delay in responding here and any inconvenience this issue may have caused.

Native support for AAD cloud domain joined clients is on the road map. We will have more clarity on the timeline very soon. For ever Azure update please keep a track on this link: https://azure.microsoft.com/en-in/updates/

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Answer 3

Thank you for the response and glad to know that Microsoft has plans to support domain join to Azure AD Domains. Does the plan also include support for joining on-prem devices to an Azure AD Domain?

Thanks,
Lokesh

Answer 4

Sorry for too many posts.
By "Native support for AAD cloud domain joined clients is on the road map", does it also include support for kerberos as an authentication protocol for SMB file access? Or does Microsoft have plans to extend Windows devices to support SMB with authentication protocols supported by Azure AD?

Thanks,
Lokesh

Answer 5

Any response, please?