Azure AD connect Cloud sync for AVD

Stefanos Armenoglou 21

Hello All,

Can we use the new azure ad connect cloud sync instead of the classic azure ad connect to an azure virtual desktop installation?

I need to sync multiple disconnected forests to an azure ad tenant and implement an azure virtual desktop for different companies.

As far as I know the new cloud sync is my only solution for this kind of identity sync but I do not know If I can use it also to build the azure virtual desktop.

Thank you,

Stefanos Armenoglou

Givary-MSFT 28,486 Reputation points Microsoft Employee

2022-02-07T08:41:45.837+00:00

Hi @Stefanos Armenoglou Thank you for reaching out to us.

Yes we can use Azure ad connect cloud sync to sync disconnected forests. Reference: https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/active-directory/cloud-sync/what-is-cloud-sync

Your query related to Azure Virtual Desktop is not quite clear, what I understood is " whether users synced using Azure AD connect Cloud sync" to Azure AD can login to Azure Virtual desktop using the same credentials or not which are synced to Azure AD --- correct me if i am wrong here.

Using the same credentials which are being used in on On-Premise AD, users can login to AVD if they have been synced to Azure AD using Azure AD connect cloud sync ( supports Password Hash Sync Only for now) . Refer to this article https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/virtual-desktop/authentication which refers to the authentication types supported by AVD, one of the authentication AVD supports is Hybrid Authentication.

Let me know if you have any questions.
Stefanos Armenoglou 21 Reputation points

2022-02-07T14:56:20.917+00:00

Hello,

Thank you for your answer.

I need to know if azure ad connect cloud sync supports also avd and not only the classic azure ad connect.
My question is not about if the credentials are the same, I am sure they are.
My question is for hybrid identities, all microsoft links, included yours, say about classic azure ad connect and not azure ad connect cloud sync.
Because azure ad connect cloud sync does not support hybrid configurations.
So the problem is not about the password hash sync.

Thank you,
Stefanos Armenoglou
Givary-MSFT 28,486 Reputation points Microsoft Employee

2022-02-07T17:08:02.443+00:00

@Stefanos Armenoglou

Refer to this article https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/active-directory/cloud-sync/what-is-cloud-sync?toc=https%3A%2F%2Flearn.microsoft.com%2Fen-us%2Fazure%2Factive-directory%2Fcloud-sync%2Ftoc.json&bc=https%3A%2F%2Flearn.microsoft.com%2Fen-us%2Fazure%2Fbread%2Ftoc.json - Section Comparison between Azure AD Connect and cloud sync talks about differences between Azure AD connect vs Azure AD connect Cloud sync different types of identities which are supported by Azure AD Connect cloud sync.

Let me know if this answers your question.
Givary-MSFT 28,486 Reputation points Microsoft Employee

2022-02-10T15:24:31.37+00:00

@Stefanos Armenoglou

Reviewed the Azure Virtual Desktop ( AVD ) prerequisites for implementation, unfortunately Azure AD Connect Cloud Sync won’t help in implementing AVD as it has no support towards devices yet.

Let me know if you have any further questions for me on the same.
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