| Microsoft Entra Connect Sync fundamentals |
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| Understanding the architecture |
For those of you who are new to the sync engine and want to learn about the architecture and the terms used. |
| Technical concepts |
A short version of the architecture topic and briefly explains the terms used. |
| Topologies for Microsoft Entra Connect |
Describes the different topologies and scenarios the sync engine supports. |
| Custom configuration |
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| Running the installation wizard again |
Explains what options you have available when you run the Microsoft Entra Connect installation wizard again. |
| Understanding Declarative Provisioning |
Describes the configuration model called declarative provisioning. |
| Understanding Declarative Provisioning Expressions |
Describes the syntax for the expression language used in declarative provisioning. |
| Understanding the default configuration |
Describes the out-of-box rules and the default configuration. Also describes how the rules work together for the out-of-box scenarios to work. |
| Understanding Users and Contacts |
Continues on the previous topic and describes how the configuration for users and contacts works together, in particular in a multi-forest environment. |
| How to make a change to the default configuration |
Walks you through how to make a common configuration change to attribute flows. |
| Best practices for changing the default configuration |
Support limitations and for making changes to the out-of-box configuration. |
| Configure Filtering |
Describes the different options for how to limit which objects are being synchronized to Microsoft Entra ID and step-by-step how to configure these options. |
| Features and scenarios |
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| Prevent accidental deletes |
Describes the prevent accidental deletes feature and how to configure it. |
| Scheduler |
Describes the built-in scheduler, which is importing, synchronizing, and exporting data. |
| Implement password hash synchronization |
Describes how password synchronization works, how to implement, and how to operate and troubleshoot. |
| Device writeback |
Describes how device writeback works in Microsoft Entra Connect. |
| Directory extensions |
Describes how to extend the Microsoft Entra schema with your own custom attributes. |
| Microsoft 365 PreferredDataLocation |
Describes how to put the user's Microsoft 365 resources in the same region as the user. |
| Sync Service |
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| Microsoft Entra Connect Sync service features |
Describes the sync service side and how to change sync settings in Microsoft Entra ID. |
| Duplicate attribute resiliency |
Describes how to enable and use userPrincipalName and proxyAddresses duplicate attribute values resiliency. |
| Operations and UI |
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| Synchronization Service Manager |
Describes the Synchronization Service Manager UI, including Operations, Connectors, Metaverse Designer, and Metaverse Search tabs. |
| Operational tasks and considerations |
Describes operational concerns, such as disaster recovery. |
| How To... |
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| Reset the Microsoft Entra account |
How to reset the credentials of the service account used to connect from Microsoft Entra Connect Sync to Microsoft Entra ID. |
| More information and references |
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| Ports |
Lists which ports you need to open between the sync engine and your on-premises directories and Microsoft Entra ID. |
| Attributes synchronized to Microsoft Entra ID |
Lists all attributes being synchronized between on-premises AD and Microsoft Entra ID. |
| Functions Reference |
Lists all functions available in declarative provisioning. |