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Windows 365 Enterprise Setup

Anonymous
2021-08-09T21:37:17+00:00

I'm going to sign up for Windows 365 and have a few questions that will help me with my decisions.

Currently, we do have an Azure Subscription but do not have a VNET. We also use Azure Active Directory and do NOT have any on-prem network or domain controllers. So, we're 100% cloud based.

With that said, do I need Windows AD to use Windows 365? I'm just watching some of the videos and they kind of go real fast in that section but I do get the feeling that we may need Windows AD. Is that true? Or is that a requirement for the Enterprise version?

Creating a VNET is not a problem but I'm particularly concerned about needing a Windows AD because if I'm not mistaken, we'd have to spin up at least one VM for that and set it up as a domain controller. I guess we'd then have to worry about doing some type directory syncing between Windows AD and AAD. I really would like to avoid all of this.

I'd appreciate some pointers on this.

Thanks,

Sam

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  1. Anonymous
    2021-08-10T01:14:01+00:00

    Hi Sam,

    Hope all is well.

    Seems the local AD is required to provide a domain for those cloud PCs to join, then the end users can remote to them after passing the authentication.

    For the details, please refer to Windows 365 architecture

    Meanwhile, we'd like to recommend you check Windows 365 Enterprise documentation to get all information about how to set up Windows 365 Enterprise.

    Please do take care.

    Regards,

    Rudy

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