Chapter 10. Deploy Active Directory in the cloud

Enterprise environments are increasingly a mixture of on-premises and cloud services, mixed and intermingled to provide the geo-redundancy, flexibility, disaster recovery, and mobility that are expected in the modern world. This means that on-premises domain administrators are increasingly looking to the cloud, and specifically to Microsoft Azure, as a solution to meet the needs of the enterprise.

In this chapter, we’ll connect our internal domain—msmvps.ca this time—to our Azure account, where we’ll deploy a new virtual network (VNet), create a point-to-site virtual private network (VPN), and deploy a new virtual machine in Azure. We’ll create a new Active Directory site and Active Directory subnet ...

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