June 2017
Beginner to intermediate
742 pages
18h 29m
English
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Azure AD Connect deployment topology
Azure AD Connect uses two different topologies to support on-premises AD deployments. However, there are certain limitations and unsupported configurations that we need to know about:
- Single AD forest-single Azure AD: This is the most commonly used deployment topology. When a user has a single AD forest, it can be synced to one Azure AD tenant. Even if it is has multiple domains, it still can be used with one AD tenant. The Azure AD Connect express setup only supports this topology. However, at any given time, only one Azure AD connect server can sync data to the Azure AD tenant. For high availability, staging server support is available, which will be explained later in this section.
- Multiple AD forest-single ...