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Dishan Francis
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Dishan Francis is an IT professional with over 15 years of experience. He was a six-time Microsoft MVP in enterprise mobility before he joined Microsoft UK as a security consultant. He has maintained the RebelAdmin technology blog over the years, with lots of useful articles that focus on on-premises Active Directory services and Azure Active Directory. He has also written for other Microsoft-managed blogs such as canitpro and ITopsTalk. When it comes to managing innovative identity infrastructure solutions to improve system stability, efficiency, and security, his level of knowledge and experience places him among the very best in the field.
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Creating a Global Administrator account for Azure AD Connect

During the Azure AD Connect configuration, we require an account that has Global Administrator privileges (in Azure). It is recommended to use a separate account for this.

In order to create a user account, perform the following steps:

  1. Click on Azure Active Directory in the Azure portal.
  2. Click on All users | + New user:

    Figure 18.25: Create new user

  3. Then, type the account name and username in the relevant fields. After that, click on Directory role and make sure that you select Global Administrator.
  4. After creating the user, log in to the Azure portal using the new account details and make sure that the account is in a working state before using it for AD sync.
  5. Also, make sure that this account is a member of the AAD DC Administrators group. This will provide administrative privileges to the managed domain.

The next step of the configuration is to set up Azure...

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Dishan Francis

Dishan Francis is an IT professional with over 15 years of experience. He was a six-time Microsoft MVP in enterprise mobility before he joined Microsoft UK as a security consultant. He has maintained the RebelAdmin technology blog over the years, with lots of useful articles that focus on on-premises Active Directory services and Azure Active Directory. He has also written for other Microsoft-managed blogs such as canitpro and ITopsTalk. When it comes to managing innovative identity infrastructure solutions to improve system stability, efficiency, and security, his level of knowledge and experience places him among the very best in the field.
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