Virtual machine provisioning and directory service management

A machine-readable storage device having instructions for execution by a processor of a machine to cause the processor to perform operations, the operations comprising:

• granting a tenant administrator client machine access to a cloud hosted tenant service joined to a directory service;
• receiving, at the cloud hosted tenant service, a request for a bulk token, the request being received from the tenant administrator client machine;
• obtaining, in response to the request, the bulk token from the directory service;
• obtaining, at the cloud hosted tenant service, an identifier of an authorized tenant client of the cloud hosted tenant service;
• provisioning, in response to obtaining the identifier of the authorized tenant client, a tenant client virtual machine in a cloud service for the authorized tenant client in accordance with a specified provisioning package associated with the bulk token;
• and
• joining, in response to the provisioning, the tenant client virtual machine to the directory service.

A device comprising:

• a processor;
• and
• a memory device coupled to the processor and having a program stored thereon for execution by the processor to perform operations comprising:
• granting a tenant administrator client machine access to a cloud hosted tenant service joined to a directory service;
• receiving, at the cloud hosted tenant service, a request for a bulk token, the request being received from the tenant administrator client machine;
• obtaining, in response to the request, the bulk token from the directory service;
• obtaining, at the cloud hosted tenant service, an identifier of an authorized tenant client of the cloud hosted tenant service;
• provisioning, in response to obtaining the identifier of the authorized tenant client, a tenant client virtual machine in a cloud service for the authorized tenant client in accordance with a specified provisioning package associated with the bulk token;
• and
• joining, in response to the provisioning, the tenant client virtual machine to the directory service.