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AAD Connect - Synchronization - mail enabled objects

Anonymous
2019-03-13T19:47:39+00:00

I'm looking for the best possible solution to synchronize all our mail enabled objects- (users, contacts, groups, shared mailboxes, resources mailboxes, service accounts, etc.) from our on-premise AD to O365. Due to our OU structure we do have a mixture of objects within some of the OUs.  I can easily synchronize our users, but I am a bit challenged on trying to filter on all mail enabled objects. We are trying to give our o365 users the experience when using Exchange/Outlook/GAL.  We do not want to synchronize non-necessary objects to O365, so that is why I'm attempting to find a solution.  Thought we could you msExchRecipientTypeDetails, but unable to find any documentation from MS to use the Synchronization Rules Editor. Any assistance would be greatly appreciated.

AAD Connect version- 1.2.70.0          

Source Anchor - mS-DS-ConsistencyGuid

User Principle Name - mail

Thank you

Robin Maloney

Microsoft 365 and Office | Subscription, account, billing | For home | Windows

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Anonymous
2019-03-14T17:37:13+00:00

2 options:

You can either create 3 new rules, one each for user, group and contact, with a single scoping filter of MAIL ISNULL, and a single transform of CloudFiltered = True.   This will set cloudFiltered to True (which prevents the object from syncing to the cloud) for any object where mail is null.

Or, you can clone the In from AD - User Join, In from AD - Group Join, and In from AD - Contact Join rules and add a clause to the existing scoping filter group of MAIL ISNOTNULL.   This will only provision objects of those 3 types that have MAIL populated.

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  1. Anonymous
    2019-03-15T21:40:45+00:00

    Hello Robin,

    Feel free to let us know your update. Thanks for your time.

    Regards,

    Rudy

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  2. Anonymous
    2019-03-13T21:24:07+00:00

    Hello Robin,

    We suggest you use the AAD connect sync filtering.

    And, you can enable filtering at any time in the AAD Connect sync. there are four ways to filter the synced objects: Group-based, Domain based, OU based, or Attribute-based.

    For detailed information, please see: Azure AD Connect sync: Configure filtering

    If anything is unclear, feel free to let us know.

    Regards,

    Rudy

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