Issues Installing Azure AD Connect

Prescimone, Chris 121 Reputation points
2020-12-07T16:36:41.037+00:00

I am working on doing a migration of Azure AD Connect from SQL Express to SQL Server and running into an error.

<error>The specified extension could not be found</error> for the Connect Directories option.

Here are the steps that I have taken to attempt to get this to work:

  • Created a Service Account with the required permissions as outlined on the website https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/active-directory/hybrid/how-to-connect-configure-ad-ds-connector-account
  • Granted DBO and logon access for the the SQL database for the ADSync account for the Service Account.
  • Used the option to Import synchronization settings
  • At the Connect Your Directories I tried "Create new AD Account' and entered Enterprise Admin credentials, and confirmed that the account is created in Active Directory. But I still got the error. I also tried using the above Service Account to connect and got the same error.

I have attached a copy of the log file that was generated for review.

45854-trace-20201207-105241.log

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  1. Prescimone, Chris 121 Reputation points
    2020-12-07T20:07:00.457+00:00

    Attached is the updated log file after trying to move the database per the instructions:

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  2. Prescimone, Chris 121 Reputation points
    2020-12-09T12:27:38.237+00:00

    Been looking into this a bit more and I believe that the issue might be that the Service Account cannot be installed either on the local server or the remote SQL server? I know that it needs SA permissions on the SQL server, but what rights are needed for Windows?

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  3. trafsta 1 Reputation point
    2021-07-13T10:54:00.583+00:00

    Did you ever figure this out? We are having the exact same issue connecting ADConnect on a new server to an existing SQL Server 2017 Standard "ADSync" database ("The specified extension could not be found."). We have a case open with Microsoft but thought I'd ask here as it is taking days for them to figure it out so far. Thx.