Stephanie Kahlam

Where did the “Deactivate” page go in Office365 for Directory Synchronization? Can’t find this page anymore from the Admin Center in Office 365? Quit looking…. The “New Way” to Deactivate Directory Synchronization Pretty much everything with regards to managing Directory Synchronization still exists in the new Admin Center, including really cool “at a glance” reporting …

  On occasion you may be required to change or update a users  AD account name.  The user got married, the user opted for a name change or the most common, a user’s name was configured incorrectly to begin with. Below are the steps to take if your domain is also participating in directory synchronization …

  Scenario: Directory Synchronization is occurring between On-premises AD and Office365 (WITHOUT password write-back enabled).  A “synced” users password was reset in the Office365 portal (for any number of Administrative or user related reasons)  Now the “synced” user does not have a synced Domain password.  What to do?  MS Cloud Services support told me not …

Hey DirSync  where is my DirSyncConfigShell.psc1? In previous versions of Dirsync (latest version 1.0.6862.0000) there was a nifty little shell that could be found in C:Program FilesWindows Azure Active Directory SyncSYNCBUSSynchronization ServiceUIShellDirSyncConfigShell.psc1  I liked to create a shortcut on my desktop along with the ever so ambiguously named DirSync GUI, miisclient.exe.  When I logged into …

If you have enabled and configured DirSync you can view basic information regarding “Synchronization Status” from the Office 365 Administration Portal. You can however, view a more detailed overview by running a simple PowerShell command.

In a recent Blog from Blogs.office.com, “Choosing a Sign-in Model for Office 365” we are informed that DirSync with password sync can now be used as a “backup sign-on” in the event our existing on-premises single sign-on infrastucture becomes unavailable. This is great news considering that if we lost the functionality of SSO or suffered from …

Scenario Your users were originally configured in the Cloud. You did NOT set up SSO with ADFS You currently have two password policies to manage (in the Cloud and in your local Domain) Your users have two passwords to keep track of; 1 for Office 365 and 1 for their domain login This can be …

Dirsync with “password sync” combined with Office 365 Multi-Factor authentication offers the ability to utilize and enjoy a SIMILAR sign-on experience as Single Sign On without having to undertake the arduous task of setting up an AD FS infrastructure. Recently I began poking around to familiarize myself with AD FS 2012 R2 (v3.0) and I …