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 Microsoft Entra Connect (formerly Azure AD Connect) deployment

Microsoft Entra Connect (formerly Azure AD Connect) deployment

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Microsoft Entra Connect (formerly Azure AD Connect) deployment

- [Instructor] Let's start with AD Connect. I chose to start here because I want to walk you through everything in a logical order that you typically have to follow when you're rolling out Azure AD in your environment. And there's a fairly good chance you'll probably start with the AD Connect Deployment. I say that because AD Connect integrates Windows Server Active Directory on-premises with Azure Active Directory. It serves as a bridge that connects the two environments to give you a hybrid identity infrastructure. So this tool needs to be installed and configured before your users can repopulate it in the Cloud. And although AD Connect is an Azure AD component, it is installed on-premises on a member's server preferably on one that's part of the domain. The primary responsibility of this tool is to synchronize user objects, group objects, and computer objects from on-premises to Azure AD. This is required so that when users…

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