[Samba] Samba AD with Microsoft Account

Rowland penny rpenny at samba.org
Mon Jan 11 19:37:52 UTC 2016


On 11/01/16 19:26, Jean-Philippe Steinmetz wrote:
> Yes I have provisioned the samba server as an Active Directory domain
> controller (I mentioned that in the first e-mail).
>
> The reason for linking the two is to provide easy access to additional MS
> services that won't be hosted internally (e.g. OneDrive, Skype, MS Store).
>
> Ultimately I am using this as a private domain at home to simplify device
> management but I want to continue be able to use existing MS services as
> well.
>
> On Mon, Jan 11, 2016 at 11:13 AM, Rowland penny <rpenny at samba.org> wrote:
>
>> On 11/01/16 19:04, Jean-Philippe Steinmetz wrote:
>>
>>> Sure. In short, I am trying to link a Microsoft Account to a domain
>>> profile on the workstation.
>>>
>>> I log in to the workstation with the user profile controlled by the samba
>>> AD server (e.g. MYDOMAIN\MyUser). Then once logged in I attempt to link an
>>> existing Microsoft Account to that user profile. I do this by going to
>>> Settings->Accounts->Add a Microsoft account.
>>>
>>

I think I understand now, you want to change a local profile to a domain 
profile (I don't think you can just link them), if so, have a look here:

http://www.forensit.com/downloads.html

Rowland




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