Identity—Entra ID
Entra ID user identities are used everywhere—from logging in to Microsoft 365 to logging in to Windows OS, and it’s no different in Windows 365. A user needs an identity to get and connect to a Cloud PC. A user identity can be created in one of two places: Entra ID or Active Directory (AD). If a user is created in AD, the identity must be synchronized to Entra ID before the user can be assigned a Cloud PC and login. You will be able to synchronize users with Entra ID Cloud Sync or Microsoft Entra Cloud Sync. We will not go into these two synchronization options in depth, but in general, if you need to synchronize devices from AD to Entra ID, you can’t use Microsoft Entra Cloud Sync as it does not support it. When a user exists in both AD and Entra ID, it is what we define as a hybrid user identity.
When a user is created in Entra ID, we define it as a cloud-only user. A cloud-only user does not have any integration into the traditional...
