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'Section display names are always synced' not working ?
Glad to hear it's not just me.
FYI you can find Microsoft.Azure.SyncFabric activity easiest via the https://Portal.CloudAppsecurity.Com then Investigate -> Activity Log.
You can drill down there for either that user. or "Group Updated" activities.
Thanks - awaiting further response from Microsoft support regarding the option 'Section display names are always synced'
Response from Microsoft below:
"I talked to the engineer and the sync profile is acting as expected. It will not update the group name if a teacher has changed it by just uploading another set of CSV files.
engineer explanation:
If the option is checked, it will prevent SDS from modifying the DisplayName when it syncs a section. If unchecked, then anytime SDS syncs a section, it will update that section to match the CSV (including DisplayName). SDS may not sync the section on a subsequent upload, if that section has not changed since the last upload (because it is only going to sync deltas)"So it appears to not do as it says unless the section name changes in the CSV because of the delta sync. Therefore the only way I can overwrite the section names back to default is to reset sync or modify the CSV which won't happen as it extracts from MIS system.
- Thanks for following this up. While i understand their answer, it'd be helpful of the re-worded the UI to make this clear. I suspect it's not just the pair of us wondering why it's behaving like this.
I wonder if a weekly "Reset Sync" is the way to go, and how i'd go about doing that.
My instinct would be to look at the old PowerShell commandlets and try to extract a GraphAPI command set which will do a Saturday Sync, though if memory serves that will require a set of GlobalAdmin creds to be saved somewhere, which isn't great.So how do we do the name sync every day (or at least every week?)
Can't find nice PS script to do it:
https://github.com/OfficeDev/O365-EDU-Tools/tree/master/SDS%20Scripts
Seb
