You are looking to lose your dependency on Active Directory, and you need to tackle infrastructure technical debt, but there are challenges:
- Legacy apps that are in maintenance mode cannot shed their AD dependency or have hardware upgrades made.
- You are unaware of what processes depend on AD and how integrated they are.
- Departments invest in apps that are integrated with AD without informing you until they ask for Domain details after purchasing.
Remove your dependency on AD one application at a time. If you are a cloud-first organization, rethink your AD strategy to ask “why” when you add a new device to your Active Directory.
Take inventory of your objects that depend on Kerberos and NTML and plan on removing that barrier through applications that don’t depend on AD.
