Hello,

I’m in the early planning / testing phase of preparing to migrate our staff from on-prem DC’s & Exchange 2013 to MS365 and Exchange Online.

Looking to have a hybrid AD solution in the end so authentication can occur on premise using our DC’s, and when off-net they can use AzureAD. I believe the AzureAD Sync Tool will assist with 2-way synchronization so account records are kept up to date.

We have around 100 staff, that will be migrated, and we’ll be setting up a domain alias because our on-prem domain was a “.local” domain.

Has anyone gone through this sort of process before, if so what was your experience like?

Were there any gotcha’s or major issues that you came across?

After completing your migration, was there something you wish you knew at the beginning that would have saved you time?

Thanks in advance for any feedback.

  • @w2tpmf
    1•2 years ago

    I hate running in hybrid. I can’t wait to shutdown our local DCs and go entirely Azure AD.

    Managing users, groups, devices, policies… Is all so much easier directly in Azure/365 admin tools.

    You can manage a lot right from the Admin app on your phone.

    You don’t have to join new PCs to the network. You can ship a new laptop directly to a user and they log to it at setup using their 365 login and it joins your cloud domain. It’s a PITA to get PC joined to the domain to join the cloud/hybrid and it doesn’t offer as much control over the device.

    I also love that you can join Android devices to your domain the same way! Manage users, apps, wifi connections, remote wipe/lock. GPS tracking. Remote reboot or play lost alarm sound. It’s slick.