Attributes synchronized by Azure AD Connect - Microsoft Entra (2023)

FAQs

Which attributes are synced to Azure AD? ›

Open the Azure AD Connect wizard, choose Tasks, and then choose Customize synchronization options. Sign in as an Azure AD Global Administrator. On the Optional Features page, select Directory extension attribute sync. Select the attribute(s) you want to extend to Azure AD.

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Azure AD Connect has two installation types for new installation: Express and customized. This topic helps you to decide which option to use during installation.

Azure Active Directory Connect is made up of three primary components: the synchronization services, the optional Active Directory Federation Services component, and the monitoring component named Azure AD Connect Health.

Azure Active Directory Sync. There are two types of sync in Azure Active Directory Connect: delta sync and full sync. A delta syncs synchronizes only the latest changes while a full sync is only necessary when changing Azure AD Connect configuration.

The new default synchronization frequency is 30 minutes. The scheduler is responsible for two tasks: Synchronization cycle.

Most attributes of the user accounts, such as the User Principal Name (UPN) and security identifier (SID), are synchronized. However, the following objects and attributes are NOT synchronized: Any objects and attributes you specifically exclude from the sync.

The Entra family includes Microsoft Azure Active Directory (Azure AD), as well as two new product categories: Cloud Infrastructure Entitlement Management (CIEM) and decentralised identity.

What is Microsoft Entra Azure? ›

Microsoft Entra a family of products that encompasses all identity and access capabilities. Within the Entra family are products such as Microsoft Azure Active Directory (Azure AD), Microsoft Entra Verified ID, and Microsoft Entra Permissions Management.

Microsoft Entra Identity Governance Preview capabilities are currently available with an Azure AD Premium P2 subscription or free trial: Azure AD Premium P2 is included with Microsoft 365 E5 and offers a free 30-day trial.

The sync service consists of two components, the on-premises Azure AD Connect sync component and the service side in Azure AD called Azure AD Connect sync service.

The Azure AD Connect sync service ensures that identity information stored in the cloud is consistent with the identity information stored on-premises. You install this service using the Azure AD Connect software.

Understand your organization's requirements. Azure AD Connect Cloud Sync is the preferred way to synchronize on-premises AD to Azure AD, assuming you can get by with its limitations. Azure AD Connect provides the most feature-rich synchronization capabilities, including Exchange hybrid support.

If you want to exclude an attribute from syncing, use the attribute filtering feature provided in Azure AD Connect. Launch Azure AD Connect from the desktop icon, and then select Customize synchronization options. Make sure Azure AD app and attribute filtering is selected, and select Next.

Azure Active Directory comes in four editions—Free, Office 365 apps, Premium P1, and Premium P2.

You start the Synchronization Service Manager UI from the start menu. It is named Synchronization Service and can be found in the Azure AD Connect group.

AD has three main tiers: domains, trees and forests. A domain is a group of related users, computers and other AD objects, such as all the AD objects for your company's head office. Multiple domains can be combined into a tree, and multiple trees can be grouped into a forest.

What are the 4 parts of an Active Directory? ›

The key components include domain, tree, forest, organizational unit, and site. As you read through each structural component description, consider that domains, trees, forest, and sites are not only integral with Active Directory but also integral with DNS.

Password hash synchronization—Synchronizes the hash of a user's Azure AD and on-premise Active Directory passwords. Pass-through authentication—Allows users to authenticate with the same password on both Azure AD and on-premise Active Directory.

Once every 30 minutes, the Azure AD synchronization is triggered, unless it is still processing the last run. Runs generally take less than 10 minutes, but if we need to replace the tool, it can take 2-3 days to get into synchronicity. On busy days, it is not uncommon for this process to take several hours to complete.

The incremental sync feature is a performance improvement feature and is the default value. You can use incremental sync with either automatic or manual sync operations. When you enable full sync, the BIG-IP system syncs the entire set of BIG-IP configuration data whenever a config sync operation occurs.

Ensure that the Synchronization Cycle is Run at Least Once Every 7 Days. By default, a synchronization cycle is run every 30 minutes. Microsoft recommends that if you choose to modify the synchronization cycle, for whatever reason, make sure that it is run at least once every 7 days.

Synchronized: identities that exist on-premises and in the cloud. Using Azure AD Connect, users are either created or joined with existing Azure AD accounts. The user's password hash is synchronized from the on-premises environment to the cloud in what is called a password hash.

Sign in to the Azure portal, select Enterprise Applications, select your application, and then select Provisioning. Under Mappings, select the object (user or group) for which you'd like to add a custom attribute. At the bottom of the page, select Show advanced options. Select Edit attribute list for AppName.

SQL Server used by Azure AD Connect

Azure AD Connect requires a SQL Server database to store identity data.

Yes, you can sync users from multiple domains, in multiple forests to single Azure AD tenant. When you have multiple forests, all forests must be reachable by a single Azure AD Connect sync server.

The delta synchronization is in most cases more than enough. It allows you to quickly synchronize the latest changes between your local AD to Azure AD. Keep in mind that passwords are synced every two minutes, so there is no need to force a delta synchronization when you change a password.

What is Microsoft Entra replacing? ›

I guess we all knew it was coming (after all, Microsoft published message center notification MC477013 in December 2022), but the news that the Microsoft Entra admin center (Figure 1) will replace the Azure AD admin center from April 1, 2023 is yet another example of the ongoing and constant changes in Microsoft 365.

Entra Verified ID Service.

An issuance and verification service in Azure and a REST API for W3C Verifiable Credentials that are signed with the did:web or the did:ion method. They enable identity owners to generate, present, and verify claims. This forms the basis of trust between users of the systems.

Try Microsoft Entra Permissions Management today

We're offering a free 90-day trial to Permissions Management so that you can run a comprehensive risk assessment and identify the top permission risks across your multicloud infrastructure.

Azure AD provides managed identities to run other workloads in the cloud. The lifecycle of these identities is managed by Azure AD and is tied to the resource provider and it can't be used for other purposes to gain backdoor access. Active Directory doesn't natively support mobile devices without third-party solutions.

Go to Entra services and use your credentials to sign in to Azure Active Directory. If you aren't already authenticated, sign in as a global administrator user. If needed, activate the global administrator role in your Azure AD tenant.

Microsoft Entra Permissions Management is available as a standalone solution for organizations. However, it is not available for business customers in the European Union (EU). The tool is currently priced at $10.40 user/month, and you can now sign up for a 90-day free trial on Microsoft's website.

E3 provides the full suite of enterprise functionality with Office applications (Word, Excel, PowerPoint, etc.) and additional security functionality. E5 is the most advanced package, with all the features of E3, alongside advanced email security functionality, analytics, and phone systems.

Azure Active Directory (Azure AD) Connect Health provides robust monitoring of your on-premises identity infrastructure. It enables you to maintain a reliable connection to Microsoft 365 and Microsoft Online Services. This reliability is achieved by providing monitoring capabilities for your key identity components.

How many types of synchronization rules are integrated in the synchronization engine? ›

A Synchronization Rule has four configuration sections: Description, Scoping filter, Join rules, and Transformations.

Having more than one Azure AD Connect sync server connected to a single Azure AD tenant is not supported. The exception is the use of a staging server. This topology differs from the one below in that multiple sync servers connected to a single Azure AD tenant is not supported.

With on-premises sync, Microsoft Edge saves an Active Directory user's favorites and settings to a file that can be moved between different computers. On-premises sync doesn't interfere with cloud syncing for those profiles that allow it.

Delta sync is faster than the initial sync, but it checks the whole data of the protected disk. Time may vary depending on the size of the protected volume and sites bandwidth.

The Microsoft Azure AD Sync synchronization service (ADSync) runs on a server in your on-premises environment. The credentials for the service are set by default in the Express installations but may be customized to meet your organizational security requirements.

Custom security attributes in Azure Active Directory (Azure AD) are business-specific attributes (key-value pairs) that you can define and assign to Azure AD objects. These attributes can be used to store information, categorize objects, or enforce fine-grained access control over specific Azure resources.

Azure AD Connect is an on-premises Microsoft application that's designed to meet and accomplish your hybrid identity goals. If you're evaluating how to best meet your goals, you should also consider the cloud-managed solution Azure AD Connect cloud sync.

Directory extension attributes, also called Azure AD extensions, provide a way to store additional data in Azure Active Directory on user objects and other directory objects such as groups, tenant details, service principals. Only extension attributes on user objects can be used for emitting claims to applications.

Azure AD Application Proxy stores metadata about the tenant, connector machines, and configuration data in Azure SQL. The Azure Service Bus relay locations, corresponding listener keys, and a copy of the AES key (K1) goes to Azure AD Connect in the response.

Visit https://developer.microsoft.com/en-us/graph/graph-explorer site and login with the global admin account. In the top, select the query operator as GET and API version as beta from the dropdown as shown. Note: You can also verify the custom attributes in Azure AD by selecting the API version as beta.

What is entra Microsoft? ›

Microsoft Entra is the vision for identity and access that expands beyond identity and access management with new product categories such as cloud infrastructure entitlement management (CIEM) and decentralized identity.

Understand your organization's requirements. Azure AD Connect Cloud Sync is the preferred way to synchronize on-premises AD to Azure AD, assuming you can get by with its limitations. Azure AD Connect provides the most feature-rich synchronization capabilities, including Exchange hybrid support.

By default every 30 minutes a synchronization cycle is run. If you have modified the synchronization cycle you will need to make sure that a synchronization cycle is run at least once every 7 days.

You can use the Extension attributes or create a new attribute in the AD schema (i.e., the blueprint of all objects and attributes that you can create in the AD). Each object in the AD has Extension attributes. The system doesn't use these attributes; Microsoft provides them so that you don't have to create them.

By default, a maximum of 50,000 Azure AD resources can be created in a single tenant by users of the Azure Active Directory Free edition. If you have at least one verified domain, the default Azure AD service quota for your organization is extended to 300,000 Azure AD resources.

AD vs Azure AD Summary

AD is great at managing traditional on-premise infrastructure and applications. Azure AD is great at managing user access to cloud applications. You can use both together, or if you want to have a purely cloud based environment you can just use Azure AD.

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Azure Active Directory (Azure AD), part of Microsoft Entra, is an enterprise identity service that provides single sign-on, multifactor authentication, and conditional access to guard against 99.9 percent of cybersecurity attacks.