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If AAD Connect is offline for an extended period of time
Hi, I'm running Azure AD Connect with password hash sync. My current setup is working fine, but I want to know what the impact would be if there's a bad outage that takes on-premises environments of...
Hi hyperloop
If it was in a scenario such as an outage of a month (a long period) you would likely disable Azure AD Connect as outlined here
https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/office365/enterprise/turn-off-directory-synchronization#turn-off-directory-synchronization
Then the users would convert to Cloud users again (not synchronised) and then you could change passwords if needed.
Once it was back up you can then resynchronise the users through soft matching.
Hope that answers your question!
Best, Chris
If it was in a scenario such as an outage of a month (a long period) you would likely disable Azure AD Connect as outlined here
https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/office365/enterprise/turn-off-directory-synchronization#turn-off-directory-synchronization
Then the users would convert to Cloud users again (not synchronised) and then you could change passwords if needed.
Once it was back up you can then resynchronise the users through soft matching.
Hope that answers your question!
Best, Chris