Objective :
Syncing On Premise AD objects to Office 365 through AD connect. In this pictorial representation, I have shown that how an on premise AD objects ( test users & their credentials ) are synced with Office 365 accounts. This will be useful for small companies having user credentials maintained at onpremise DC and allows them to use the same credentials for their Office 365 accounts.
Requirements :
- An Office 365 subscription with a valid administrative account
- An On Premise AD with test users
- Azure AD connect package ( Domain controller satisfies all the prerequisites to install AZure AD connect
- Preparing Office 365 subscription for directory synchronisation setup
Procedure :
Here, I configured an on-premise Domain controller for the domain vembu.in on Windows 2012 R2. Created 4 test users test1@vembu.in, test2@vembu.in, test3@vembu.in on the Domain controler.
Installing Azure AD connect package on vembu.in DC:
Download Azure Active Directory connect from the below url : https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=47594
1.Install the package
2. Select Express settings
3. Provide your administrative Office 365 account details
4. Provide your On-premise DC administrative details, here VEMBUIN is the NetBIOS name provided in DC configuration.
5. Configuring AD connect on DC.
6. Completed AD connect configuration
Next step is preparing our Office 365 subscription to sync with On – Premise AD. Login to any domain user on your system, open your Office 365 subscription with Administrator account here my id gopal@vembu.in is the administrative account for Office365 subscription.
Goto Office 365 Admin Center — > Users —> Active users, on More column select “Directory synchronisation” and follow the onscreen questions.
This will download Microsoft Office 365 Support Assistant 3.5 and install
After installation,
Open Azure AD Connect icon on the DC, and rerun the task ( this is for new additional users added in the on-premise AD ). I added four users, and after sync, can see all test users in added users in Office 365 Admin Center. Here test4 user added directly in Office 365 account and other 3 users are created in on-premise AD and synced to Office 365 and hence sync type shows Synced with Active Directory. Added Office 365 E3 subscription to user test1 and
Test2. For test3 user license is not assigned and hence shows “Unlicensed”.
Conclusion :
This How-to will be helpful for large deployment of On-premise AD users to use Office 365 account with same credentials, and will act as SSO (same sign on).
