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Russ Burden's avatar
Russ Burden
Copper Contributor
Apr 06, 2020

Synchronizing Office365 users to Azure AD

I have noticed that when we provision a user in the Office 365 Admin portal, a user is provisioned in Azure AD for our tenant.  When this user is provisioned, only the most basic information is synchronized, like user, password, and group membership.  Is there a way to have the users physical address synchronize as well?

  • Thijs Lecomte's avatar
    Thijs Lecomte
    Bronze Contributor

    Hi Russ Burden 

     

    Azure AD is the Identity Service used by all Microsoft 365 services.

     

    If you create a user from the O365 portal, it's actually created in Azure AD.

     

    Like when you create a user in Exchange on-prem, it's actually created in the local AD.

     

    That being said, if you fill in the address information in O365, it should also show up in AAD.

    I just tested and this works for me.

     

    What attributes don't you see in AAD?

    • Russ Burden's avatar
      Russ Burden
      Copper Contributor

      Thijs Lecomte What I have is,  for instance,  address.  If I create a user with no address, but update it later,  the update is not synchronized to the AAD object.  I have several users that have addresses in o365 Admin that are not populated in AAD.

      • Thijs Lecomte's avatar
        Thijs Lecomte
        Bronze Contributor
        I just checked and updating the address field from admin center sync to AAD.
        These aren't sync'ed users right? They were created in O365 admin?

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