With directory synchronization, you can continue to manage users and groups on-premises and synchronize additions, deletions, and changes to the cloud. But setup is a little complicated and it can sometimes be difficult to identify the source of problems. We have resources to help you identify potential issues and fix them.
You will also receive a mail (to the alternate email and to your admin email) from Microsoft 365 that indicates your tenant has encountered directory synchronization errors. For details see Identify directory synchronization errors in Microsoft 365.
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Microsoft is working to reduce the time required to remediate identity issues when onboarding to Microsoft 365. A portion of this effort is intended to address the time involved in remediating the Windows Server Active Directory (Windows Server AD) errors reported by the directory synchronization tools such as Azure AD Connect and Azure AD Connect cloud sync. The focus of IdFix is to enable you to accomplish this task in a simple, expedient fashion.
IdFix queries all domains in the currently authenticated forest and displays object attribute values that would be reported as errors by the supported directory synchronization tool. The DataGrid view supports the ability to scroll, sort, and edit those objects in a resulting table to produce compliant values. Confirmed values can then be applied to the forest with the ability to undo updates. Transaction rollback is supported.
You can either use synchronized identity or federated identity between your on-premises organization and Office 365. With synchronized identity, you manage your users on-premises. They are authenticated by Azure Active Directory when they use the same password in the cloud as on-premises. This is the most common directory synchronization scenario.
You get a free subscription to Azure AD with your Office 365 subscription. When you set up directory synchronization, you will install Azure Active Directory Connect on one of your on-premises servers.
On the Is directory sync right for you? page, the two first choices of 1-10, and 11-50 return the response "Based on the size of your organization, we recommend that you create and manage users in the cloud. Using directory synchronization will make your setup more complex. Go to Active users to add your users."
If you select the two latter choices, 51-250 or 251 or greater, the synchronization setup will recommend directory synchronization. Choose Next to continue.
Important: After you have added a TXT record to verify you own your domain, do not go to the next step of adding users in the domains wizard. The directory synchronization will add users for you.
Use the Google Cloud Directory Sync (GCDS) installer to download and install all required components on your server. During installation, any existing version of GCDS in the same directory is uninstalled.
IdFix is used to perform discovery and remediation of identity objects and their attributes in an on-premises Active Directory environment in preparation for migration to Azure Active Directory. IdFix is intended for the Active Directory administrators responsible for directory synchronization with Azure Active Directory.
We have updated our synchronization application to work the new Microsoft Graph. As such, Schemus, which extracts user information (email addresses, users, and groups) from your O365/Azure LDAP directory service and provides user identity data to your Email Security.cloud services must be upgraded to v1.52.03 or later.
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