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FAQs

What are the limitations of GCP managed AD? ›

Managed AD limitations include: Managed AD cannot become part of an existing AD domain, whether on-premise or in GCP. Domain Controllers for Managed AD cannot be deployed on-premise or as GCE instances in a customer project–they run only in the Google-managed project in Google Cloud.

Active Directory Domain Services supports four types of trusts: External (Domain), Forest, Realm, and Shortcut. Out of those four types of trusts, AWS Managed Microsoft AD supports the External (Domain) and Forest trust types.

Azure Active Directory is a cloud-based, identity access management service that has been built for the web.

Transitive and non-transitive trusts

Transitivity determines whether a trust can be extended outside of the two domains with which it was formed. A transitive trust can be used to extend trust relationships with other domains. A non-transitive trust can be used to deny trust relationships with other domains.

Two-Way Trust: Two domains trust each other. Users in either domain can access resources in the other. One-Way Trust: One domain trusts another, but not vice versa. Users in the trusted domain can access resources in the trusting domain, but not the other way around.

What are the 5 FSMO roles in Active Directory? ›

While trust relationships can be set up between AD domains and forests to allow sharing of network resources, ADFS provides secure sharing of identity information between federated business partners.

Active Directory treats users as resources, so user management and authentication are tied to domains. In contrast, Google Cloud doesn't manage users in an organization, except for service accounts. Instead, Google Cloud relies on Cloud Identity or Google Workspace to manage users.

Managed Service for Microsoft® Active Directory (AD) is a highly available, hardened Google Cloud service running actual Microsoft AD that enables you to manage your cloud or on-premises AD-dependent workloads, automate AD server maintenance and security configuration, and extend your on-premises AD domain to the cloud ...

There is no real way to replace Active Directory with Azure AD outside of fully cloud-based operations, as Azure AD can be largely dependent on Active Directory. Active Directory creates the foundation of an organization's domain that allows Azure AD to authenticate users in the cloud effectively.

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Windows systems (including Active Directory) have a restriction on computer names (sAMAccountName), limiting them to a maximum of 15 characters. However, in UNIX environments, machine names can often exceed this 15-character limit. To accommodate this difference, AD Bridge offers a solution.

A domain controller can create “a little bit less” than 2.15 billion objects during its lifetime. Users, groups, and computer accounts (security principals) can be members of a maximum of approximately 1,015 groups. You can apply a limit of 999 Group Policy Objects (GPOs) to a user account or a computer account.