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Azure AD test tenant
Hello Community, I'm stating this discussion because I likely wanted your input regarding the best way to build a test tenant in Azure. We have a Prod tenant and for some feature testing or some wi...
- What I did is set up a parallel AD domain using our as-built documentation and then registered a new domain name used exclusively for this project. Then I created an Azure tenant with a pay-as-you-go subscription linked to a credit card. Then I used Azure AD Connect to connect the test domain with the test tenant. The AD DS domain is on a completely separate VLAN and the test tenant is completely separate from our production tenant.
What this does is keep the production environment completely separate from the test environment. I can try new things on the test domain and have a pretty good idea about how it's going to affect the production environment. The best part about this is that I can experiment with new services to deeply understand them before presenting them as potential projects. The idea is to be very thorough and build a deep understanding of a service before anyone else in the company (or our team) puts time into it.
RyanWike
Microsoft
MicrosoftHi, I know it's been a while since you first asked this question... We recently released a training module that provides guidance on test tenants in Azure AD: https://learn.microsoft.com/training/modules/create-azure-active-directory-test-environment/
It discusses when you should use a separated tenant or a production tenant, creating test users, and creating policies to match your production environment.
Hope that helps.
It discusses when you should use a separated tenant or a production tenant, creating test users, and creating policies to match your production environment.
Hope that helps.
