Chapter 11

Azure AD Cloud Sync

Azure AD Cloud Sync

Installing Azure AD Cloud Sync

Configuring Azure AD Cloud Sync

What’s next?

Until now, we’ve been discussing the flagship Azure AD Synchronization tool, AAD Connect. Over the past 11 years, AAD Connect has had a long and distinguished career in the Microsoft 365 directory synchronization space and, as a result, has been called by several different names as the product evolved:

  • DirSync Originally known as DirSync, it was a purpose-built tool for Azure synchronization, but compared to today’s Azure AD Connect, it had a significant number of limitations. In addition to lacking any ability to customize attribute flows, DirSync could only sync to Azure from a single on-premises Active Directory ...

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