Hybrid Active Directory & Entra ID

Status

Planned

Goal

Build an internal identity lab, then connect it to Microsoft Entra ID to understand how on-premises and cloud identity meet.

• Windows domain services
• users and groups
• DNS and Group Policy
• authentication flows
• identity synchronization
• join and registration states
• identity lifecycle and access policy

Notes to document later

• domain design
• VM sizing
• DNS considerations
• joining systems to the domain
• Entra Connect or Cloud Sync
• hybrid identity failure modes
• licensing boundaries for conditional access
• admin and security lessons learned