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AD DS Namespace: Can it be deleted safely?

After doing research on AD DS and setting it up in our test environment, I feel that AD DS is what we are looking for. Other options considered were the extension of on-prem AD DC into Azure Cloud by creating an instance of DC in Azure cloud and connectivity to internal DC over VPN.

My question is that once I configure AD DS, would there be any impact on any applications, services or identities if I decide to delete the AD DS namespace later? Is it something that is not reversible or cannot be deleted once AD DS is configured?

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vipulsparsh-MSFT answered

@RameezAli-3372 Thanks for reaching out.

There will not be any impact to your corresponding AAD tenant if you wish to delete your Azure AD Domain Services.
Although this deletion will be permanent and cannot be reversed.

Things which will get deleted are :

1) Domain controllers for the managed domain are de-provisioned and removed from the virtual network.
2) Data on the managed domain is deleted permanently. This data includes custom OUs, GPOs, custom DNS records, service principals, GMSAs, etc. that you created.
3) Machines joined to the managed domain lose their trust relationship with the domain and need to be unjoined from the domain.
4) You can't sign in to these machines using corporate AD credentials. Instead, you must use the local administrator credentials for the machine.

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