Disable Microsoft Entra Connect now that we are not hybrid

Question

We are no longer using a hybrid environment. Azure still shows the MS Entra Connect as set up but says it can not find the local AD. How do we tell Azure we no longer want to sync.

On a side note, the Entra password policy is not being enforced. We assume it's because Azure still thinks it is syncing to the AD, and the password policy there is in control.

Answer 1

@Brian Frank

Thank you for your time on the call today. As per our discussion you had on-premises environment earlier with Entra connect to sync users to Entra ID.

Now, you have decommissioned on-premises environment and move entirely to cloud.

After moving completely to Entra ID you users to change there password by using Entra password policy.

You were unable to do this because initially on-premises AD was handling the password policy.

To fix this issue, you changed "passwordneverexpires" to "false" in office admin portal GUI. This helped all Entra ID created users to change their password now.

And you changed "passwordneverexpires" to "false" using PowerShell commands in below article. This helped all synced users to change their password now.

https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/admin/add-users/set-password-to-never-expire?view=o365-worldwide

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Answer 2

Hi,

you can follow this:

https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/enterprise/turn-off-directory-synchronization?view=o365-worldwide