To sync on-premises VMs and Azure VMs AD records, you can use Azure AD Connect. Azure AD Connect is a tool provided by Microsoft that helps you to synchronize your on-premises Active Directory with Azure Active Directory. Here are the steps to synchronize on-premises VMs and Azure VMs AD records:
Install and configure Azure AD Connect on your on-premises server.
Enable the synchronization of your on-premises Active Directory with Azure Active Directory. During the configuration process, you'll need to specify the synchronization options and select the on-premises domains to synchronize.
Once the synchronization is set up, verify that the on-premises AD users and groups are correctly synchronized with Azure AD. You can do this by checking the Azure AD portal or by running PowerShell scripts to query Azure AD.
To synchronize the AD records of your Azure VMs with the on-premises AD, you can join your Azure VMs to your on-premises AD domain. To do this, you can use the Azure VM Custom Script Extension to run a script on your Azure VMs that joins them to your on-premises AD domain.
Here's an example PowerShell script that you can use to join an Azure VM to your on-premises AD domain:
$domainName = "yourdomain.com"
$username = "admin"
$password = ConvertTo-SecureString "P@ssw0rd" -AsPlainText -Force
$credential = New-Object System.Management.Automation.PSCredential ($username, $password)
Add-Computer -DomainName $domainName -Credential $credential -Restart
Make sure to replace the variables with the appropriate values for your environment.
Once the Azure VMs are joined to your on-premises AD domain, the AD records of the VMs will automatically be synchronized with Azure AD as part of the regular synchronization process.
Note that you may need to configure additional settings, such as network connectivity and security, to allow the Azure VMs to join your on-premises AD domain. Additionally, you'll need to ensure that the necessary ports are open between your on-premises environment and Azure for synchronization to occur.
