Technical requirements and lab setup

To successfully follow along and complete tasks and exercises throughout this chapter and the following chapters in this book, we will need to establish a custom domain name for use with Azure AD, set up Azure AD Connect to synchronize our on-premises lab AD with Azure AD, and finally establish Self-Service Password Reset (SSPR). Let’s begin with the following set of steps to configure these lab components in our Azure Active Directory tenant and our on-premises Hyper-V lab.

Establishing a custom domain name

When we established our tenant subscription within Azure back in Chapter 1, there is a default domain registered to the tenant that reflects the naming convention of tenantname.onmicrosoft.com. This Fully Qualified Domain Name (FQDN) is unique throughout all of Azure AD, and this tenant FQDN becomes a permanent and public part of your Azure AD tenant. As part of your organization’s brand and naming conventions, it may be...