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When looking at migrating an existing application to Azure, most people fall back on what they know, which is to move the virtual machines or use the lift and shift model.  While lift and shift appear to be the easiest way to move your legacy application in the least cost-effective way, this can be very useful and fast when moving legacy applications to Azure that have not been modernized or have dependencies on third-party resources that may not have been modernized as well. With on-premise Active Directory services being synchronized with Azure Active Directory, help and virtual machine management are provided through an already established process, helping you ease into the Azure model.  This means that the virtual machine ...