Will Active Directory Connect Delete Cloud Accounts?

Jordan Alway 6 Reputation points
2020-07-30T17:09:46.96+00:00

Hello,

My company is creating a virtual environment within the Azure cloud with two VMs running Active Directory. These are brand new VMs with no Users or Groups, or Computers created (other than the admin account).

We have been using Azure AD to authenticate user's access to applications and email so we already have a good number of users created.

My question is this:
Will the existing user accounts within Azure AD be disrupted when we use Active Directory Connect to synch these two environments? I'm concerned that the blank domain controllers will wipe our existing Azure AD profiles.

Any insight into this concern would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks,

Jordan
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  1. Vasil Michev 95,666 Reputation points MVP
    2020-07-30T17:24:33.3+00:00

    It will not delete any objects. However, it might "match" existing users objects with On-Prem ones as detailed here: https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/help/2641663/use-smtp-matching-to-match-on-premises-user-accounts-to-office-365

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  2. Jordan Alway 6 Reputation points
    2020-07-30T17:58:39.253+00:00

    Thank you michev for that information.

    Can anyone else weigh in on this concern? I simply want to be certain before moving forward. I don't want to disrupt a production environment.