Microsoft Entra Domain Services documentation

Learn how to use Microsoft Entra Domain Services to provide Kerberos or NTLM authentication to applications or join Azure VMs to a managed domain.

About Microsoft Entra Domain Services

Overview

• What is Microsoft Entra Domain Services?
• Compare identity solutions

Concept

• How does synchronization work?
• FAQs

Get started

Deploy

• Create a managed domain

Tutorial

• Domain-join a Windows Server VM
• Install management tools

Configure

Tutorial

• Configure secure LDAP

How-To Guide

• Enable password hash synchronization
• Create an organizational unit (OU)
• Configure Kerberos Constrained Delegation
• Secure managed domain

Manage

How-To Guide

• Administer group policy
• Manage DNS
• Check health status
• Configure email notifications
• Enable security audits
• Restore group policy from backup

Domain-join VMs

Tutorial

• Windows Server

How-To Guide

• Ubuntu Server
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux
• SUSE Linux Enterprise

Troubleshoot

How-To Guide

• Common issues
• Common alert messages
• Network security group issues
• Secure LDAP issues