Connect Azure VM and On Prem Server to Azure Active Directory Domain Services

Question

Hopefully, I won't make the question very long but a little background is needed. Currently, in our office, we have 5 work stations and 2 windows server 2016. One is a domain controller and the other one with 3 hyper-v running SQL, IIS, and TFS. We also have a production server with another vendor.

Recently, we decided we will move everything to Azure. For the domain controller, we want to use AAD DS. My question is I'm having difficulties adding an azure VM to the domain controller, and as we want to keep our IIS and SQL in our office to keep the cost down that's why we will use one server in the office on running IIS and SQL. The production server will be an Azure VM and also the domain controller. That's we want to keep everything under one umbrella that 1 Azure VM, 5 Work stations, 1 On-prem Server. Azure VM will have a 1TB disk and our workstations will map those drive as everything under a single domain.

Is it possible? If it is, how can I achieve that? Small guidelines will be appreciated.

Regards eshayat

Answer 1

Azure Active Directory Domain Services (Azure AD DS) provides managed domain services such as domain join, group policy, LDAP, and Kerberos / NTLM authentication that is fully compatible with Windows Server Active Directory.

I followed the following two guidelines, and got a success:

1. Create Azure AD DS
2. Join a Windows VM to domain

So, may I know if you have changed your password as required? :

Enable user accounts for Azure AD DS

I changed my password. After that, I tried to join a VM to the domain, and I was asked to provide my admin credential. I used the new credential, and successfully joined to the domain.