If you are synching your on-premises Active Directory to Entra ID (aka Azure AD), you must be aware of the release of a new Entra ID Connect (aka Azure AD Connect) version – 2.3.2) with major updates. One of them is the retirement of the group writeback feature as announced in November 2023 […]
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If you are using Entra ID Connect (aka Azure AD Connect), you may already know about the existence of the group writeback functionality (https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/entra/identity/hybrid/connect/how-to-connect-group-writeback-v2/) which allows you to provision groups on your Active Directory from Entra ID. Well, you need to get ready for the group writeback depreciation starting June 30, 2024. Group writeback
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A new Azure AD Connect version – 2.2.8.0 – is now available https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=47594. This new version introduces 2 functional changes: The attribute onPremisesObjectIdentifier has been added to the default sync rules. This attribute is required by Microsoft Entra Cloud Sync’s Group Provisioning to AD feature. Minimum .NET runtime requirement has been increased to
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As you are may be aware, Microsoft has released an updated version of Azure AD Connect to support the employeeLeaveDateTime attribute (see https://t.co/dzZs8LWyHb). Well, there has been a bug where the new employeeLeaveDateTime attribute was not syncing correctly. If you have been already implemented it using the AAD Connect version 2.1.19, you need
UPDATED a newer version (2.1.20) is now available to fix synchronization issue for employeeLeaveDateTime (see https://t.co/PQqgAu2m3X) Back in July 2021, Microsoft has introduce a new attribute (employeeHireDate) to help manage users’ lifecycle (see https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/graph/api/resources/identitygovernance-lifecycleworkflows-overview?view=graph-rest-beta). Well, the new version of Azure AD Connect (2.1.19 – available for download here https://www.microsoft.com/download/details.aspx?id=47594) is now adding the
A new version (2.1.15.0) of the directory synchronization tool – Azure AD Connect – has been released. You need to urgently update your existing AAD Connect instance as this new version fixes a security vulnerability in the Azure AD Connect Admin agent. In addition of this security fix, few new capabilities have been added, such
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A new Azure AD Connect version, 2.0.91, is available for download and install. This is version is not available for auto upgrade. This version updates the version of the Azure AD Connect Health agent to version 3.2.1823.12 to provide compliance with Federal Information Processing Standard (https://www.nist.gov/standardsgov/compliance-faqs-federal-information-processing-standards-fips). You can download it from https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=47594.
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This has been a long awaited capability. As you know until then you were not able to synchronize your Active Directory with multiple Azure AD/Office 365 tenant. Well, this is now possible and supported to do so; meaning you can synchronize your users, groups and contacts from your Active Directory to different tenant (aka duplicating
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UPDATE the version 2.0.88 has introduced a bug which can lead to user objects referencing on-premises shared and resource mailboxes to be deleted. A new version 2.0.89 has been released to fix the issue, please check the version before downloading AAD Connect from Microsoft website. If you have an Active Directory and use Microsoft Cloud
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If you still have on-premises Active Directory you probably are synching your directory with Azure AD using the directory synchronization tool Azure AD Connect. As you may be already aware, there is now 2 versions of Azure AD Connect: 1.x and 2.x The 1.x version is some sort of legacy version allowing customer still running
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