I was looking at setting up our company in Office 365, setting azure active directory and linking all of this to our domain. The idea being to have a single login likebob@mydomain.com that we can use locally on our windows workstations, and to access office 365, sharepoint online etc through a single login - and be able to access the associated email account.
Ideally this would link the local users PC to the cloud based data and applications and allow syncing to onedrive.
I setup Azure AD first using MyDomain.onmicrosoft.com and put a couple of accounts on it. I then went to setup Office 365 for the company and discovered that the name MyDomain.onmicrosoft.com was not available - and it did not give me the option to link it to my Azure AD - which I assume was actually consuming the name, making it unavailable to me onmicrosoft.com.
So with this in mind I created the Office 365 as MyDomainLtd.onmicrosoft.com.
I then wanted to try linking the two - but this looks a little tricky. Whenever I try to do anything with Azure along the lines of trying to sync it with Office 365 it asks me to download and install some syncing software on the Domain Controller on our network... which we don't have. So that is where I am a bit stuck.
I should mention that I have got so far as to having Office365 verify our domain ownership - which then recommended the AD integration.
So - in a nutshell;
- I want to setup Azure Active Directory - without an existing on premise Domain Controller
- I want to sync this to Office365 so that both of them are using user accounts like;bob@MyDomain.com
- Users to have a single logon and matching email address like bob@MyDomain.com
Thanks on advance for any help with this.