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Great, thanks guys. I'm new to Azure as I havent done anything except sit through CBTNuggets AZ-900 videos and a few labs so any help and advice is very helpful. We have AD setup onsite and have all our servers inhouse. We have no intentions of moving to the cloud until we get our moneys worth from our current VMware system. We just want an automatic way creating and managing Office365 accounts. I am trying to find a solution that has no cost (or a cost I can predict) as we currently have no IT manager to plead our case and it is damn near impossible to get the schools bank card (I have to purchase apps personally for use by our SEN pupils) Azure AD DS and forest hours - I am quite possibly taking about AD DS. I essentially looked up Active Directory in the Azure cost calculator and it automatically has an input in Forest hours. I assumed that this was time spent updating Azure AD from our onsite AD When I look up AD Connect it says it is free and included in my Azure subscription (I dont have one). Am I correct in thinking I would not need a Azure server running (or even created)? We would just need Azure Connect running on our AD server and this linked to an Admin account on Office.com? I found this guide https://blog.bemopro.com/cybersecurity-blog/azure-ad-connect-step-by-step-instructions Thanks again - - - Updated - - - Great, thanks guys. I'm new to Azure as I havent done anything except sit through CBTNuggets AZ-900 videos and a few labs so any help and advice is very helpful. We have AD setup onsite and have all our servers inhouse. We have no intentions of moving to the cloud until we get our moneys worth from our current VMware system. We just want an automatic way creating and managing Office365 accounts. I am trying to find a solution that has no cost (or a cost I can predict) as we currently have no IT manager to plead our case and it is damn near impossible to get the schools bank card (I have to purchase apps personally for use by our SEN pupils) Azure AD DS and forest hours - I am quite possibly taking about AD DS. I essentially looked up Active Directory in the Azure cost calculator and it automatically has an input in Forest hours. I assumed that this was time spent updating Azure AD from our onsite AD When I look up AD Connect it says it is free and included in my Azure subscription (I dont have one). Am I correct in thinking I would not need a Azure server running (or even created)? We would just need Azure Connect running on our AD server and this linked to an Admin account on Office.com? I found this guide https://blog.bemopro.com/cybersecurity-blog/azure-ad-connect-step-by-step-instructions Thanks again

Hi guys, any help or guidance would be much appreciated Basically MS has given us Office 365 to give to staff and students so they can have Office at home for free (yayyy) but we currently have to spend a few minutes setting up each individual user (booo). We have over 2,000 students so basically I dont want to do this. Azure AD seems to be the answer and I want to create a test server in their free trial but used my free trial up studying for AZ900, so this will have to wait until I can get a new bank account Basically I wanted some advice on what server to build and ideas on costs. I assume the Azure AD free teir is the way to go with 0 Premium users How many User Forest hours do you think will be needed? Thanks in advance for any light you can shed on this

As DaveAshworth pointed out, you can get a free exam voucher for 'attending' a virtual training day. Its a horrendous watch, like listening to two sales guys in a pub but if you just click play/attend and carry on with your normal day, theyll send you the voucher. https://www.microsoft.com/en-gb/events/training-days/?irgwc=1&OCID=AID2000142_aff_7794_1243925&tduid=%28ir__oacffhfilskfqgznkk0sohz3wu2xuomtpk26g6je00%29%287794%29%281243925%29%28hL3Qp0zRBOc-B0tzMyrrUHNIN_r7OexS2w%29%28%29&irclickid=_oacffhfilskfqgznkk0sohz3wu2xuomtpk26g6je00#microsoft-azure?ranMID=46128&ranEAID=hL3Qp0zRBOc&ranSiteID=hL3Qp0zRBOc-B0tzMyrrUHNIN_r7OexS2w&epi=hL3Qp0zRBOc-B0tzMyrrUHNIN_r7OexS2w