Azure AD sync won't manually sync

Question

When running a manual sync, either using powershell or the AD Sync gui it never updates in the admin console. It only sync's every 30 minutes. Is there a way to force manual synchronization? It's very time consuming to have to wait for a change to sync and it would be nice if running a sync that it actually updates in the admin console online.

Answer 1

You can force it via Powershell using the methods described here. For a Delta Sync:

Start-ADSyncSyncCycle -PolicyType Delta

Or for a complete sync:

Start-ADSyncSyncCycle -PolicyType Initial