Azure AD Connect V2 | Step by Step Installation Upgrade

[Applause] hello and welcome everyone so adconnect version 1 will go out of support next year in 2022 so microsoft has released ad connect version 2. so the new release does not contain any new functionality it contains updates to the foundation component on ad connect several of the older components that ad connect uses are due to depreciate in 2022 so all those components have been bundled into the version 2 release so you only need to update once so in this video we will go through the new prerequisites and changes for version 2 and show the in-place upgrade from a previous installed version of ad connect version 1 to version 2. so there's no auto upgrade available for this so a manual upgrade is required all links to downloads etc are in the description to support this video if you have never installed ad connect and are looking for a step-by-step guide then we also have video links covering this in the description so let's take a look at the changes prerequisites and perform an in-place upgrade but before we do please subscribe to the channel to be notified of new videos posted weekly on everything azure cloud and microsoft 365. thank you very much so let's take a look at the prerequisites and what's changing so microsoft recommends you should upgrade to azure ad connect version 2 as soon as possible as all the azure ad connect v1 versions will be retired on august the 31st 2022 links are in the description with further information so a new database new version of ad connect ships with sql server 2019 local database previous versions of sql server 2012 installed with v1 will go out of support in july 2022 there are some operating system changes so windows 2012 and windows server 2012 r2 are no longer supported so sql server 2019 is only supported on windows 2016 and later therefore version 2 of ad connect will not install on any os earlier than windows server 2016. new version of ad connect ships with a newer msal library previous adal authentication library will be depreciated in june 2022 that's installed with v1 and will go out of support in july 2022. sql server 2019 requires a visual c plus plus redis 14 runtime and will be automatically installed with v2 of ad connect v2 of adconnect will only support tls 1.2 so this needs to be enabled before installation if your servers does not support tls 1.2 there's an update to the binaries signed now with sha2 and also version 5 of powershell is required for ad connect v2 server 2016 and 2019 have powershell version 5 installed already by default okay so let's take a look at what's involved upgrading our existing ad connect version 1 to version 2. we have a base build of windows server 2016 with tls 1.2 not enabled if we don't enable tls 1.2 when we run the install later we will get this message as shown now let's run some powershell commands to show the current state of tls as you can see 1.2 is not enabled at this stage and then we will run a command to enable tls 1.2 after a reboot we can now see tls 1.2 is enabled again links are in the description showing the commands required to enable this okay so we can do an export of the current ad connect configuration this is useful if you need to import your configuration again either install an ad connect from scratch and import in your config maybe you need to have a newer version of os windows 2016 to support ad connect version two therefore we could import our configuration from a new ad connect install so let's now download the version of ad connect version two so if we go to the web address displayed here links are in the description and click download we are now ready to run the upgrade in the next section so we're not going to perform a new version 2 install here we're going to upgrade or exist in version 1 of ad connect to version two using an in-place upgrade so if we go to the synchronization service manager that's already installed and if we go to help and then about we can see that our version we've got currently installed with our configuration is 1.5.45.0 and also if we take a look in the control panel see what's installed there also we can see our version of ad connect that we just saw earlier and we can see our version of sql 2012 is also installed so let's now run the new version of ad connect version 2 installer double click it and then when the installer starts simply click upgrade the video's speeded up here so with version two instead of just requiring an azure ad global admin you can now specify hybrid identity administrator credentials we have created a service account for this in azure ad so it's least restrictive permission we'll now go into azure pim and assign this role to the service account so if we click add assignments and then if we search for a role hybrid identity administrator click and then if we select our member choose our service accounts click select click next we want to make this account active and then click assign if we now type the password within azure ad connect click next and then we click upgrade okay we can see the upgrade has now been completed so if we go back into our synchronization service manager click help and about we can see our version is now 2.0 and we also go into control panel programs and features we can see our upgraded version of ad connect together with our new version of sql server 2019 local database and now we have some new users test user 11 that needs to be synced to azure ad so let's run a delta command to sync that up instantly into azure as we can see our new test account is now visible in azure id so hope this video helps you please comment below and subscribe to the channel to be notified of any new videos posted weekly on everything azure cloud and microsoft 365. thank you very much and take care see you next time bye you

Channel: Cloud Inspired

Views: 643

Rating: 5 out of 5

Keywords: ad connect, version 1, version 2, v1, v2, installation, upgrade, prerequisites, architecture, components, download, tls, sql server 2019, windows server 2016, 2012, msal, adal, deprecated, out of support

Id: NPD3Idgo1LA

Length: 7min 51sec (471 seconds)

Published: Thu Sep 16 2021