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January 31, 2024
Managed Microsoft AD is available in the africa-south1 (Johannesburg) region. For more information, see Deploy domain controllers in additional regions.
November 03, 2023
Managed Microsoft AD is available in the europe-west10 (Berlin) region. For more information, see Deploy domain controllers in additional regions.
October 03, 2023
Managed Microsoft AD is available in the me-central2 (Dammam) region. For more information, see Deploy domain controllers in additional regions.
July 10, 2023
Support for workforce identity federation in Managed Microsoft AD is generally available. For more information, see Workforce identity federation: supported products and limitations.
June 02, 2023
Support for joining a Windows Compute Engine VM automatically to a Managed Microsoft AD domain is generally available with the following updates:
- Added a new
managed-ad-forceflag to reuse an existing computer account. - Improved the existing
managed-ad-ou-nameflag to specify the path of the custom OU.
For more information, see Metadata.
Using the automated domain join feature, you can also join GKE Windows Server nodes automatically to a Managed Microsoft AD domain.
May 17, 2023
Managed Microsoft AD is available in the following regions:
- europe-west12 (Turin)
- me-central1 (Doha)
For more information, see Deploy domain controllers in additional regions.
December 19, 2022
Managed Microsoft AD supports applying Microsoft security baselines on your Managed Microsoft AD VMs. For more information, see Microsoft security baselines.
Managed Microsoft AD has added a set of new event IDs to audit logs that you can export for a domain. For the updated list of event IDs, see Exported event IDs.
December 15, 2022
The ability to join a Windows VM automatically to a Managed Microsoft AD domain is available in Preview.
November 07, 2022
Support for schema extensions in Managed Microsoft AD is generally available. Learn how to extend the schema.
Support for the migration of users from an existing domain to Managed Microsoft AD is available in Preview. Learn how to enable permissions for migrating an on-premises domain with SID History.
October 05, 2022
Managed Microsoft AD is available in the following regions:
- europe-southwest1 (Madrid)
- europe-west8 (Milan)
- europe-west9 (Paris)
- me-west1 (Tel Aviv)
- us-east5 (Columbus)
- us-south1 (Dallas)
For more information, see Adding and removing regions.
September 19, 2022
Managed Microsoft AD protects your Managed Microsoft AD instances against virus and malwares using the operating system's built-in antivirus. For more information, see Security monitoring and protection.
July 21, 2022
You can use the Google Cloud console to enable LDAPS and configure multi-project access (domain peering) in Managed Microsoft AD.
June 27, 2022
Support for schema extensions in Managed Microsoft AD is available for Preview. Learn how to extend the schema.
May 30, 2022
May 10, 2022
Managed Microsoft AD is available in the following regions:
australia-southeast2(Melbourne)europe-central2(Warsaw)northamerica-northeast2(Toronto)us-west3(Salt Lake City)us-west4(Las Vegas)
For more information, see Adding and removing regions.
February 03, 2022
Generally available: Managed Microsoft AD now supports the use of tags on domains.
July 30, 2021
Support for audit logging is now generally available.
June 21, 2021
Support for integrating Managed Microsoft AD with Cloud SQL is now generally available.
June 16, 2021
Support for LDAPS is now generally available.
March 04, 2021
Support for Fine-Grained Password Policies (FGPP) is now generally available.
January 14, 2021
Managed Microsoft AD now supports audit logging. This feature is in the Preview stage.
August 24, 2020
You can now create Managed Microsoft Active Directory instances using Terraform.
July 09, 2020
The Managed Microsoft AD SLA has been published.
March 23, 2020
GA pricing now in effect
New pricing for Managed Microsoft AD is now in effect. Learn more about standard Managed AD pricing and view pricing examples.
March 10, 2020
VPC Service Controls integration is now in beta.
Learn more about configuring VPC Service Controls for Managed Microsoft AD to provide additional security.
February 20, 2020
Managed Service for Microsoft AD General Availability
Added support for deploying domain controllers from the following regions:
- asia-east2
- asia-northeast1
- asia-northeast2
- asia-south1
- australia-southeast1
- europe-west2
- europe-west3
- europe-west6
- northamerica-northeast1
- southamerica-east1
Learn about the full list of supported regions.
AD-dependent VMs and apps can use multi-regional VPCs to reach domain controllers in any region, regardless of their relative locations.
Domain controllers from the same AD domain can be deployed in up to 4 regions, at domain creation or later.
The Domain Functional Level (DFL) of all new Managed AD domains is Windows Server 2012 R2. Domains created during the Managed AD Beta may have an earlier DFL. Learn how to check your DFL.
Trust status is stale
When the trust between a Managed Microsoft AD domain and an on-premises Active Directory domain is broken, the status in the Cloud Console may not be correctly updated.
To validate the status of a trust, go to the Managed Microsoft AD page in the Cloud Console and then select the domain. On the Domain page, in the Trust relationships table, select Validate Trust. Learn more about getting domain info.
August 21, 2019
Managed Microsoft AD is now in beta!