Windows 10: Best Practice: Join Domain or Office 365

I work at a small office. 14 local PCs connected to our local AD domain. We use azure AD to connect/sync the local AD to office 365.

We have some new employees coming on who will not be working in the office. I have their accounts created/synced in Office 365/Active Directory.

Setting up their laptops for the first time, I’m given two options: join the domain or connect via office 365. Which is better in this situation? I’m configuring then in the office (with local domain), however the laptops will be primarily be used outside of the office. So, domain or 365 setup?

Side note: is it better to skip the initial windows setup, use default sign in, and set up the user in the windows OS?

Thanks for any guidance

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Windows Sync with Office 365

Hi INSO_OSO_INFO,

You can use Windows 10 feature of joining Azure AD domain and then add your PC to the Azure AD domain with your Office 365 subscription.

For detailed steps, please see
Join a new Windows 10 device with Azure AD during a first run

Here’s a thread for your reference:
sign in with Microsoft account instead does not accept office 365



Thanks,

Neha

 

Cortana & Office 365 Integration

We are trying to integrate Cortana with our Office 365 subscription, but it never works. Here are the steps we have done:

• Turned on Cortona in the Office 365 Admin portal
• We are using Windows 10 1703 – connected Office 365 service to Cortana

Did the same on windows 10 mobile with no luck, Cortana says its connected to Office 365, but sees no data and we are getting zero errors

We went rough office 365 support first and tried all fo their suggestions, they kicked us over to Windows support which is currently closed.

We are on v1703 with all updates in place, it does not work on Windows 10 desktop or mobile

any ideas? I can give you all steps 365 support had us run through if that will be helpful

Thank you

Doug

 

Re-join the domain after upgrade

There is no need to leave the domain, you can perform the upgrade (with Admin privileges).

You can also leave the domain, upgrade with a local account, then join the domain again.

Resources:

• Quick
  Tip: Join a Windows 10 PC to a Domain