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Steven Collier
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Dec 23, 2016
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AzureAD Connect Mobile Numbers

I've managed to get myself confused as to how the AD mobile attribute syncs to AzureAD. According to here it's part of the set of attributes that's synchronised, however unlike seemingly everything e...
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    VasilMichev
    Dec 24, 2016

    They all seem to be setting the mobilephone one, and yes, it looks like there is no SOA for this attribute. You can edit it directly even in dirsynced scenarios and changes you make in O365 are not overwritten by dirsync. What I remember is that previously this attribute never made it to SPO, so we had to set it there manually. It has always been a special one :)

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Steven Collier
MVP
Dec 23, 2016

Thanks Vasil, so is Delve setting the authentication phone field or mobile? It must be mobile to allow things like outlook to pick up on it surely?

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VasilMichev
MVP
Dec 24, 2016

They all seem to be setting the mobilephone one, and yes, it looks like there is no SOA for this attribute. You can edit it directly even in dirsynced scenarios and changes you make in O365 are not overwritten by dirsync. What I remember is that previously this attribute never made it to SPO, so we had to set it there manually. It has always been a special one :)

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