As a CTO, one of my tasks is to foresee the expansion of our IT infrastructure, which is mostly hosted in Azure. In the past few months I have been working on a whole new Azure environment that streamlines our virtual machines (VMs), offloads most of our workloads to manage services and users the latest and greatest when possible. One of the products I was looking forward to was Azure Active Directory Domain Services (AADDS), which provides two domain controllers for our Azure environment as a managed service. Not only this means we don’t have to worry about deploying domain controller VMs, but also a tighter integration with our Azure Active Directory.
After two weeks of researching on the subject and speaking with Azure support, I decided to take the leap—hoping the leap was based on empirical research more than faith. Boy, was I wrong wronged.