The Challenge
Multiquip runs quarrying and construction materials operations, with staff spread across sites and the back office. Like many established operators, it ran an on-premises Active Directory for network and file access while its cloud services sat in Microsoft 365 and Entra ID. The two identity worlds were separate. Staff juggled more than one set of credentials, IT managed accounts in two places, and every starter or leaver had to be handled twice. That is slow, error prone, and a quiet security risk: a disabled on-prem account does not necessarily lock someone out of the cloud.
Multiquip wanted one identity and one sign-on across both.
What Evocate Delivered
Evocate delivered a hybrid Active Directory integration connecting on-premises AD to Microsoft Entra ID:
- Assessment: reviewed the existing on-prem Active Directory and the Entra ID tenant, confirming domain, identity, and account hygiene before touching anything
- Synchronisation: deployed and configured Microsoft Entra Connect to synchronise on-premises identities into Entra ID
- Single sign-on: configured SSO so users authenticate once with their familiar AD credentials and reach Microsoft 365 without a second login
- Lifecycle validation: verified synchronisation, attribute mapping, and the joiner, mover, and leaver flow, so changes made on-prem flow through to the cloud
Outcomes
Staff sign in once and reach their Microsoft 365 apps, with no second password to remember. IT manages each person in one place, and disabling an account on-prem now flows through to the cloud, closing a real security gap. Provisioning a new starter is a single action rather than two, and the identity foundation is in place for any future move toward cloud-first management.
Why This Matters
Identity is the foundation everything else sits on. Get it fragmented and every security control, every audit, and every onboarding becomes harder than it should be. Hybrid identity lets an organisation keep the on-prem investment it still needs while gaining the single sign-on and central control of the cloud. For an operator like Multiquip, that means less friction for staff, less risk for the business, and a clean path forward, without ripping anything out.
