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Dishan Francis
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Dishan Francis

Dishan Francis is an IT professional with over 15 years of experience. He was a six-time Microsoft MVP in enterprise mobility before he joined Microsoft UK as a security consultant. He has maintained the RebelAdmin technology blog over the years, with lots of useful articles that focus on on-premises Active Directory services and Azure Active Directory. He has also written for other Microsoft-managed blogs such as canitpro and ITopsTalk. When it comes to managing innovative identity infrastructure solutions to improve system stability, efficiency, and security, his level of knowledge and experience places him among the very best in the field.
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Syncing custom attributes to Azure AD

In the previous section, I explained how we can create custom Active Directory attributes. When we sync users from on-prem Active Directory to Azure AD by using Azure AD Connect, some of the attributes will also sync but not all. The complete list of attributes that will sync with Azure AD Connect is available at https://bit.ly/32lpFNn.

But sometimes, there can be business requirements to sync these custom Active Directory attributes to Azure AD. It could be to use them with cloud applications (SaaS) or to use them with a legacy Line-of-Business (LOB) application that is migrated to Azure. We can sync these custom attributes to Azure AD by using the Azure AD Connect "Directory extension attribute sync" feature.

In my demo environment, I am going to demonstrate how to sync a newly created custom Active Directory attribute (user class) to Azure AD. To simplify the process, I have already installed Azure AD Connect and configured...

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Dishan Francis

Dishan Francis is an IT professional with over 15 years of experience. He was a six-time Microsoft MVP in enterprise mobility before he joined Microsoft UK as a security consultant. He has maintained the RebelAdmin technology blog over the years, with lots of useful articles that focus on on-premises Active Directory services and Azure Active Directory. He has also written for other Microsoft-managed blogs such as canitpro and ITopsTalk. When it comes to managing innovative identity infrastructure solutions to improve system stability, efficiency, and security, his level of knowledge and experience places him among the very best in the field.
Read more about Dishan Francis