In my last blog post I wrote about the new way to sync your onPremise identity to Azure AD – New way to sync identities in Azure – Azure AD Connect Connect Provisioning. In This post I describe how I install the agent on a Windows Server 2019 Core and the configuration in my development environment.

Prerequisites

List of prerequisites

• A global administrator account in Azure AD
• An on-premises server for the provisioning agent with Windows 2012 R2 or later
• internet access from Windows Server onPremise (Network Configuration)
• Server Core App Compatibility Feature on Demand (FOD)
  • ServerCore.AppCompatibility~~~~0.0.1.0
  • Microsoft-Windows-InternetExplorer-Optional-Package~31bf3856ad364e35~amd64~en-US~.cab

Install prerequisites

$ServerCore= get-WindowsCapability -Online -Name *ServerCore*
Add-WindowsCapability -Online -Name $ServerCore.Name

$InternetExplorer= get-WindowsCapability -Online -Name *InternetExplorer*
Add-WindowsCapability -Online -Name $InternetExplorer.Name

Mount-DiskImage -ImagePath drive_letter:\folder_where_ISO_is_saved\ISO_filename.iso
$package_path = D:\Microsoft-Windows-InternetExplorer-Optional-Package~31bf3856ad364e35~amd64~~.cab
Add-WindowsPackage -Online -PackagePath $package_path

Install Azure AD Connect Provisioning Agent

Download the agent

After the download ist complete you can copy the agent on your Windows Server

Installation process

After dowloading and copy the agent to the server, we can start to install. Open a powershell and run the agent wizard

powershell.exe
.\AADConnectProvisioningAgentSetup.exe

Configure Azure AD Connect Provisioning settings