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Copper Contributor

Jul 28, 2020

Sync users which works as linkedmailbox

Hello, I want to sync some users to office 365 using ADconnect while the users have the value msExchRecipientTypeDetails equal 2 which means that it's a linked mailbox ,currently the ADconnect filte...

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Moataz_shaaban1245

Copper Contributor

Jul 28, 2020

Actually syncing from account forest is technically is impossible due to a long story (even that confirmed by Microsoft support),so the workaround was to use the resource forest but users still access this mailboxes from users forest so I can't convert them

I was looking for modifying the sync rules to allow sync the linkedmailbox accounts after enable them but I am not sure if that applicable or not

harveer singh

Iron Contributor

Jul 28, 2020

Well, in that case you can technically exclude the attribute from Aadconnect and you will be able to sync the user, but first you need to decide on further steps, if your plan is to setup hybrid later to migrate the mailboxes, not synchronizing recipienttypedetails would cause issues, if you are just looking to use other services in office 365 and not exchange you can simply exclude all exchange related attributes from synchronization and sync the user, beware that when you don't synchronize exchange attributes and you assign an exchange license to the user, o365 will provision a new mailbox for the user.

Moataz_shaaban1245
Copper Contributor
Jul 29, 2020
harveer singh

Yes this my point I will use other services than Exchange online, so please advice How should I exclude the Exchange attributes ?
- Moataz_shaaban1245
  Copper Contributor
  Jul 29, 2020
  Hi ,
  I managed to sync the linked mailboxes after changing 4 rules in AD connect :
  In from AD - user join
  In from AD - user accountEnaled
  In from AD- user common from Exchange
  In From AD - user common
  
  by changing any rule related to msexchrecipienttype eq 2 , to be for example related to msexchrecipienttype eq 44
  - harveer singh
    Iron Contributor
    Jul 29, 2020
    Moataz_shaaban1245 : Great ! synchronization rule editor has always been the classic way to do things, with new Aadconnect version you do get another option as well using optional features, Azure AD app and filtering and then deselecting AzureAD attributes that you want to export. Ref: https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/active-directory/hybrid/how-to-connect-install-custom
    
    Thanks.