Microsoft Entra ID Governance
Architecture

Road To The Cloud Implement

In brief

The guidance now links to a different Microsoft Entra Cloud Sync article for provisioning groups to Active Directory Domain Services.

What Entra admins need to know

Administrators using this guidance will be directed to the updated configuration instructions; no action is required.

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Groups

A cloud-first approach for groups involves creating new groups in the cloud. If you need them on-premises, provision groups to Active Directory Domain Services (AD DS) by using Microsoft Entra Cloud Syncprovision groups to Active Directory Domain Services (AD DS) by using Microsoft Entra Cloud Sync. Convert the Group Source of Authority (SOA) of existing on-premises groups to manage them from Microsoft Entra.

These links provide more information about groups:

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