As DirSync evolved to AAD Sync, and AAD Sync evolved to AAD Connect, there have been significant changes to the way we accomplish tasks with these tools.

With the recent release of Azure Active Directory Connect v 1.1, Microsoft has made several updates to how various aspects of the process of syncing your on-premises Active Directory accounts into Azure Active Directory. There have been some pretty significant changes in a couple of areas, with one of those being sync filtering. In this series of blogs posts, I’m going to walk you through the options and processes for filtering your sync jobs.

Office 365Nathan OBryanMarch 4, 2016AAD COnnect, DirSync, Azure ADComment

Updated PowerShell script: Activate-SyncedPasswords

A couple of weeks ago I published a script that assists with switching your Office 365 authentication method from federated to managed and back again. After playing with the script for a while, I have realized that I had made a couple of incorrect assumptions about the rep-requisites for this script.

PowerShellNathan OBryanDecember 22, 2014Azure AD, DirSync, ADFS, Office 365Comment

Uninstalling DirSync

One of Microsoft’s main feature claims for DirSync is that it has an appliance like setup. I have probably installed 100 DirSync servers, and can confirm that the install process for DirSync is as appliance like as it gets. The process of uninstalling DirSync is, however, nowhere near appliance like

Nathan OBryanAugust 12, 2014Office 365, DirSyncComment

Import-Module DirSync

With the latest version of DirSync, Microsoft has created a full PowerShell module for DirSync instead of that semi-module we used to have to run to get the Start-OnlineCoexistanceSync command. Since we figured out that we can run Import-Module DirSync now to get the Start-OnlineCoexistanceSync cmdlet, I figured there must be other commands in this module. So I did some poking around to see if I could find out what they might be.

Nathan OBryanJuly 21, 2014DirSync, Office 365Comment

Preventing accidentally deleted accounts from syncing via DirSync

Believe it or not, I’ve done some pretty dumb things. I’ve deleted all kinds of things that I should not have, and I’m fairly confident that I’ll do more dumb things in the future. The best I can do is know that I am going to screw things up and try to figure out ways to make sure I can recover from screw ups when they happen. It that vein, I was pretty happy to discover a new DirSync setting that helps prevent the accidental deletion of large numbers of AD accounts from Azure AD and/or Office 365.

Nathan OBryanJuly 4, 2014Office 365, DirSyncComment

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