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Anonymous
January 01, 2003
By default DirSync runs every three hours; which for some environments or during testing may not be frequent enough.
DirSync - or the Microsoft Online Services Directory Synchronization Tool, to give it it's full name is the tool that ensure your on-premises Active Directory and Exchange organization are in sync with your cloud services from Office 365.
Sometimes though, the default schedule of every three hours just isn't enough. Perhaps you're building a test environment and need to ensure changes are propagated to Office 365 quickly; or your internal process dictate that very soon after the addition of a new Active Directory account and remote mailbox, the user can log in.
Fortunately though, it's easy to reduce the schedule DirSync uses. To reduce the schedule, we'll perform the following actions.