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Hi guys,
i am using Azure AD Connect Cloud Sync on my domain controller (windows server 2019) and I want to sync the msDS-cloudExtensionAttribute 1 - 15 of my users to Azure AD.
The documentation says this should work what-is-cloud-sync but the attributes are not synced and i have no clue why.
I checked it via Get-AzureADUserExtension -ObjectID "UserID".
Does anyone have an idea what to do?
Best greetings to you all
Hi and thank you for your answer.
For clarification: I am using Azure AD Connect Cloud Sync not the classic Azure AD Connect.
It seams to me that the documentation you provided is for Azure AD Connect and not for Azure AD Connect Cloud Sync.
The relevant bits still apply.
Ok thank you, but how can I configure this in Azure AD / Azure AD Connect Cloud Sync?
There is no such dialog in the GUI to do this.... at least i have not found it.
Thank you
So I followed the tutorial you send in the link.
There are already rules existing for extextensionAttributes by default:
But if I check the attributes of my users via
Get-AzureADUserExtension -ObjectId "ID-of-the-User"
The User only has the default extension attributes:
So the next thing i was trying was to create a new mapping rule for the extension attributes but this is not possible because there is already one. So I deletet the existing one and created a new but the attributes are still not synchronized.
btw: the msDS-cloudExtensionAttributes are not even listet in the mapping rules config editor.
Do you have any idea to this or maybe its just a bug in Azure AD Connect Cloud Sync?
Two things. First, to reiterate again that the extension attributes listed above (extensionattributeXX) are different from msDS-cloudExtensionAttributeXX. Since the latter are not in the default schema, and since Cloud sync does not currently support schema extensions, I don't believe there is a way to use them directly. Just populate the extensionattributeXX ones and use them, you have direct mappings available already.
Second, to actually see extensionattributeXX values, you cannot use the AAD PowerShell module. Either use the Graph API (https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/graph/api/resources/onpremisesextensionattributes?view=graph-rest-1.0) or if the corresponding user is a valid Exchange recipient, use
Get-User/Get-Mailbox/Get-Recipient user@domain.com | fl *attribute*
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Two things. First, to reiterate again that the extension attributes listed above
(extensionattributeXX) are different from msDS-cloudExtensionAttributeXX.
I'm sorry I misunderstood you there at the beginning. I thought extensioattributeXX and msDS-cloudextensionattributeXX are just two different names for the same thing.
Now the documentation here what-is-cloud-sync makes totally sense to me: the extensionAttributesXX are supported by Azure AD Connect and Azure AD Connect Cloud Sync
But the msDs-cloudExtensionAttributeXX are only supported by Azure AD Connect because they are schema extensions.
Thank you for making this clear again an help me to finally unterstand this :-)
Those are different attributes from the extensionAttributeXX, which are the ones synchronized by default. In turn, the extensionAttributeXX set is added by extending the AD schema with the Exchange additions, so that's a prerequisite if you want to use them. If you want to use the msDS-cloudExtensionAttribute set instead, you have to create custom rules to map them to one of the attributes that are syncing by default, or add them as schema extensions: https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/active-directory/hybrid/how-to-connect-sync-feature-directory-extensions