How to Join Azure VM to Azure AD Domain

In this tips and trcks session we will see how to join an Azure VM to the domain.

When we are working in Azure, we ususally add a custom domain name to Azure Active Directory in order to have either a hybrid connectivity with on-premises active directory or even for a complete management of corporate resources on Azure.

Once the custom domain has been added, we synchronize the on premises users, groups, and other resources with Azure AD in order to allow users to be able to access resources on Azure as per their access level. Also, after adding your custom domain name to Azure Active Directory (Azure AD), you need to add your Azure virtual machine to the custom domain name in order for it to be accessible from the domain/corporate account having relevant access. In this video, you will learn how to do it using the Azure AD Domain Services.

In this session, our objective is to join the Azure VM to the Azure Active Directory Domain.

[murphyjoanna]

Awesome training video, nice and simple!!!

[nonsense]

This is perfect training video for beginners especially for those people who are not fully network exposed.

[warningforyou]

Very good explanation. Easily understandable. Good work.

[jagadishkumar]

Hi .. it was a pleasant and Extrordinary session that you have been given... Thank you sooo much.. i am looking forward for your more Azure and citrix sessions

[atlan]

I'm learning about Azure and you help me a lot with your video's. Thank you very much!

[ahweikun]

great tutorial. on the topic and detailed

[mitchsimmons]

Thank you for a perfect training session.

[andryt]

Thanks Neeraj. This tutorial is really helpful

[Nivek]

Thank you very much Neeraj.. Great explanation..

[gauravraw]

Thanks for the video! Just a couple of follow-up questions if you don't mind:

1. Will this computer object now be synced to on-prem ad from azure ad?
2. If it does sync with on-prem ad, will the GPOs applied on-prem take effect on this vm in azure?
3. Lastly, If we had our azure vnet (where the vm is residing) already connected to our on-prem datacenter where we already have ad domain services running, we could have updated the dns settings on this vm with the on-prem dns servers and would not have needed to deploy azure ad domain services, correct? I am sure that will have some latency but if a company had something like an express route, then it could work, am I right with this statement?

Thank you again!!

[PrashantThakre]

You are just amazing .. a true life saver...

[mahender]

thanks, can you make video how to configure mail box for this custom domain, can we configure office exchange in azure

[techiegz]

Great video but missing details on the use of the DNS IP address highlighted at the 9:40th minute and that's where I'm stuck in trying to join DevTest Lab VMs to AAD DS created in AVD with my custom domain.

[ameerthoughts]

thanks for the video, could you make a video about a client joining with Domain,

[shivaskrishnan]

Hello Neeraj nice video as you posted I have a quick question can we join this domain to the client machine ? Is it possible or only can we enable through VM ?

[alisanchez]

in specific when i update the DNS, after that i loose the access to de VM

[dellefortaleza]

Regarding the adding of accounts? Will it be the same local ADDS, like on user and group then add the users? or will I be adding using IAM and giving them the RBAC role of VM Administrator or VM user.

[eashwerdev]

can you make a video on joining a linux vm(centos) to ADDS

[marcinbielicki]

I have a different message when adding a VM to Azure AD: => "This device joined to Azure AD. To join an Acticve Directory you must first go to settings and choose to disconect your device from your work or school." When I created the VM, I saw this machine as added to Azure AD in my Azure AD, but in the windows settings it is still in WORKSGROUP. My VM has "Windows Server 2022 Datacenter Azure Edition"

[stickmansfootball]

Awesome video!! Are you able to access resources/files that are on prem from this server in Azure?