Mastering Office 365 Administration

How AD integration affects the new user creation process

As we mentioned before, leveraging tools such as AD Connect or AD FS will change the way you migrate into Office 365 and how you will bring new employees into the organization. Going into great detail would be well beyond the scope of this chapter, but here's an overview of what you can expect.

When you use Essentials Experience, you can choose to create your Office 365 accounts separately, or you can trigger their creation when you create an AD user. If you need to, you can associate an existing account in Office 365 with an account in AD. Passwords are synced from AD to Office 365 provided that the user doesn't change their password in Office 365 manually. This scenario is ideal in ...