Category:Entra ID

THIS ARTICLE IS PART OF THE SERIES: Entra Cloud Sync – Lightweight Agent – Cloud Managed – Christoffer Klarskov Jakobsen – Microsoft Architect Since you can actually not have users created in Entra ID and then synced to local Active Directory, I will show what would happen if you have an automatic provisioning of users …
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THIS ARTICLE IS PART OF THE SERIES: Entra Cloud Sync – Lightweight Agent – Cloud Managed – Christoffer Klarskov Jakobsen – Microsoft Architect You create groups in Entra ID the normal way you are used to. Or if you have a HR system provisioning the groups into Entra ID, this is supported too. You will …
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THIS ARTICLE IS PART OF THE SERIES: Entra Cloud Sync – Lightweight Agent – Cloud Managed – Christoffer Klarskov Jakobsen – Microsoft Architect Create a new sync configuration, from Entra ID to Active Directory: After initial creation that is much similar the configuration of the other way around, you can now go into filtering of …
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THIS ARTICLE IS PART OF THE SERIES: Entra Cloud Sync – Lightweight Agent – Cloud Managed – Christoffer Klarskov Jakobsen – Microsoft Architect In cloud sync, chose to setup new configuration – AD to Entra ID: Make sure password hash sync is enabled and then provision. After initial configuration, sync is not active yet. Go …
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THIS ARTICLE IS PART OF THE SERIES: Entra Cloud Sync – Lightweight Agent – Cloud Managed – Christoffer Klarskov Jakobsen – Microsoft Architect This section is to ensure one understand that there is a way of testing before enabling syncs. You will need to configure the sync, but in the following articles about configuration of …
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THIS ARTICLE IS PART OF THE SERIES: Entra Cloud Sync – Lightweight Agent – Cloud Managed – Christoffer Klarskov Jakobsen – Microsoft Architect ImportantYou should install the agent on multiple tier 0 servers – this is supported and will add to the resilience of password hash configuration and general provisioning if one agent goes offline. …
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Table of Sub-pages This series of articles go through the configuration steps to configure Active Directory to Entra ID Sync, and from Entra ID to Active Directory. Cloud Sync is the newer lightweight agent, compared to Connect Sync that have been around for many years.However you should carefully read the features matrix below to understand …
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