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The original was posted on /r/sysadmin by /u/gahd95 on 2023-10-07 20:55:44.

Hi,

So i have been asked to plan for our AAD to be our primary AD. Currently we sync our on-premise AD to AAD wuth Azure Connect 2.0.

I do like the idea of having just AAD and getting rid of our on-prem AD. Most likely not getting completely rid of it due to our server infrastructure not being completely ready to fully move to the cloud and a few other thing.

However, what i am trying to figure out is:

• How do we keep our file servers available for the users? Most of them work in Sharepoint, but we do have some users that rely in the on-prem fileshare and Azure fileshare would be much too expensive for this kind of data.
• Same for print servers. Microsoft Universal Print is not supported for all of our printers. We are working towards a printserverless solution, but we are not quite there yet
• All the different integrations and services we have depending on on-prem AD.

Should be just forget it and keep our on-prem AD as our primary for a few more years and try to move services, integrations and dependencies to the cloud?