Microsoft recommendation is to use AAD Join for Windows 10 workstations wherever possible. Suitable for servers that are lifted and shifted or Azure VMs deployed in Azure. AAD DS Join is full domain join and requires devices to be within the VNet. Organization owned device joined to an on-premises AD DS are Hybrid Azure AD joined.ĪAD DS ‘domain join’ is similar to AD domain join and is for corporate owned devices (workstations, servers) that exist within the same network and are managed using Group Policy. Organization owned device not joined to on-premises AD DS are Azure AD joined,. Personal devices are Azure AD registered,. It’s suitable for client devices (workstations, mobile devices). AAD join is more internet friendly and allows devices to be joined over the internet and managed using MDM. AAD joinĭevices - Windows, Apple (iOS, MAC), Android - can be joined to Azure AD with or without a hybrid deployment that includes an on-premises AD DS environment. Joining device to AAD provides ‘mobile device management’ (MDM) in combination with Intune whereas AAD DS join is similar to traditional AD domain join. AAD DS requires AAD to be present i.e. 
AAD DS service is ‘domain service’ in Cloud and is meant to provide same service as on-premises AD with domain joins, group policy and has a hierarchical structure with OUs.
It is not a ‘domain service like traditional AD’. AAD is the directory that sits behind M365/O365 workloads and provide identity and security services.It’s important to understand that AAD and AAD DS are two separate services. It provides subset of fully compatible traditional AD DS features such as domain join, group policy, DNS service, LDAP, and Kerberos / NTLM authentication. Introduction to Azure Active Directory Domain Services (AAD DS)Īzure Active Directory Domain Services (AAD DS) is Microsoft’s ‘managed domain’ service in Cloud.
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