Microsoft Entra ID Governance
Architecture

Road To The Cloud Implement

In brief

The documentation now links to the Microsoft Entra Cloud Sync group provisioning tutorial instead of the configuration guide.

What Entra admins need to know

Use the updated tutorial link when following the documented process.

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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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