Organizational unit in active directory is a container where you can place users, computers, groups and other organization units even. OU are helps to create logical structure of the AD. You can use it to assign group policies and manage the resources. This is common procedure in in-house domain environment, but what about the Azure managed domain? Can engineers use same method?
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In active directory environment, LDAP (Lightweight Directory Access Protocol) is responsible for read and write data from AD. By default LDAP traffic transmitted un-secure. You can make this secured transmit based on SSL. In security prospective even in more “local” network it’s important to make secure even though most of engineers not using it. But when you have hybrid or cloud…
In my previous post I have explain how to enable azure ad domain services. If you not read it yet you can find it here.
Once the domain service are enabled the next step to sync the credentials to the Azure AD domain services. Then users can use their logins to log in to the managed domain services. This post is to explain how we can do it in cloud-only environment as well as in hybrid setup.
Azure AD, Azure AD Domain Services, On-premises Active Directory, AD-sync .. All these terms are now start to appear on most of now a days infrastructure projects. Based on the questions I get from the blog also represent still engineers struggle how to implements Azure services with their needs and how to get best benefits out from it. So this article also a series of articles I was doing…
