Although the binaries was released prematurely a couple of days ago, the most recent version of Azure AD Connect, version 1.1.119.0, has just been officially released. Among the fixes is a check to ensure Azure AD Connect with password synchronization only accepts supported platforms, which is Windows Server 2008 R2 SP1 or newer. The remaining… Read More »
If you experience issues when performing in-place upgrades of Azure AD Connect from previous releases, or discover that the synchronization scheduler does not work as expected, these issues can be caused by issues in version 1.1.105.0. Fortunately, these issues have now been fixed in the recent 1.1.110.0 release of Azure AD Connect. Full set of… Read More »
A new version of Azure AD Connect has just been released; 2016 February, build 1.1.105.0 This version introduces a series of new and highly sought out features, including the option to configure Domain and OU filtering during the installation wizard process, an automatic upgrade feature (only for Express configuration), and a reduction of the default… Read More »
The 2015 December version of Azure AD Connect has just been released. The new release includes a few, but critical fixes, including a fix for an issue with password sync, that several organizations have been struggling with lately. Fixed issues: Password sync might not work when you change passwords in AD DS, but works when… Read More »
Yammer identities and the profile updates have been decoupled from the identity management and synchronization in the other Office 365 services, and setting up synchronization of identities to Yammer has required deploying and configuring the Yammer Directory Synchronization (DSync), a separate tool from the Azure AD Sync/Azure AD Connect used for Office 365. After the… Read More »
Yesterday Microsoft released a new version of Azure AD Connect, which is the first new release since the Azure AD Connect was initially released to GA in August 2015. Azure AD Connect is the main tool for integration of your on-premises identity system, like Active Directory, with Azure Active Directory. Using Azure AD Connect you… Read More »
Azure AD Connect is the next-generation identity synchronization tool for Microsoft cloud services, and combines the features of Microsoft’s Directory Synchronization (DirSync) and the Azure AD Sync Services (Azure AD Sync) tools. Azure AD Sync that was released in September 2014 is the replacement for DirSync, but the newly released Azure AD Connect will be… Read More »