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Good luck getting an admin to register your VM with Active Directory.
Yes, that will be an issue. I guess not a technical one, Linux is perfectly able to fetch a token and connect to network shares etc. Not sure how that works with Email and the modern cloud office stuff. But likely, the IT department will have to enforce that policy as well. That's why I asked if OP has to use software on Windows (11)... Otherwise, if it worked 4 years without issues... maybe there is no issue with Active Directory...