So What is Azure Active Directory Domain Services Good For?
You’d think Microsoft would extend your on-premise Active Directory up in Azure, so rather than hosting a virtual machine in Azure as a Global Catalog / Domain Controller in Microsoft’s cloud, that Microsoft would provide an extension of your on-premise AD to their cloud as a service. But NO, that is NOT what Azure AD Domain Services provides.
What You’d Think Azure AD Domain Services Is
I’ve had a couple orgs ask me about Microsoft’s Azure Active Directory Domain Services this past week, figured it would be good to get an article out on it… So for orgs that have been using Microsoft’s Active Directory on-premise for years, Azure AD Domain Services is NOT an simple extension of your Active Directory, and in fact, of the hundreds of orgs we’ve implemented Active Directory for over the years, we have NOT onboarded “any” of them to Azure AD Domain Services.