Reading Time: 5 minutesThis post is the fifth in a series about Azure Active Directory Synchronization and will cover Object Matching. Other posts have covered and will cover: Introduction, Part 1 Introduction, Part 2 Filtering, Part 1 Filtering, Part 2 Alternate Logon ID Object Matching and Joining Object matching or joining is relevant if you have multiple Active Directory (AD) forests you want to use for Directory Synchronization to Azure Active Directory (Azure AD). Previously with DirSync, it wasn't possible (or supported) to connect

Reading Time: 5 minutesThis post is the fourth in a series about Azure Active Directory Synchronization and will cover Filtering. Originally I've planned to make this one post, but in my opinion it became to large and complex thus again a part 2. Other posts have covered and will cover: Introduction, Part 1 Introduction, Part 2 Filtering, Part 1 Object Matching Alternate Logon ID In the previous post I discussed why and how to filter: Domain, Organizational Unit or Attribute based filtering. When to

Reading Time: 6 minutesThis post is the third in a series about Azure Active Directory Synchronization and will cover Filtering. Originally I've planned to make this one post, but in my opinion it became too large and complex thus again a part 2. Other posts have covered and will cover: Introduction, Part 1 Introduction, Part 2 Filtering, Part 2 Object Matching Alternate Logon ID   Why would you want to filter? In most cases the current Active Directory (AD) implementation contains a lot

Reading Time: 5 minutesThis post is the second in a series about Azure Active Directory Synchronization, covering part 2 of an introduction. Previous and follow up posts have covered and will cover: Introduction, Part 1 Filtering, Part 1 Filtering, Part 2 Object Matching Alternate Logon ID As most organizations will not require FIM, I will focus my attention mostly on AADSync. Although DirSync is (unless features from AADSync are required) the first choice, it's deprecated, but more importantly: most concepts are still unchanged.

Reading Time: 3 minutesThis post is a first in a series about Azure Active Directory Synchronization, covering part 1 of the introduction. Follow up posts will cover: Introduction Part 2 Filtering Part 1 Filtering Part 2 Object Matching Alternate Logon ID   Why you want have synchronization For those who don't work regularly with Office 365 or other Microsoft cloud services (like Azure, Exchange Online Protection), it can be a complex myriad of information to work through in order to find out what you exactly need. In