Feb 15 2021 01:33 AM
We have a customer that has activated a tenant with office 365 business licenses.
The tenant is not yet connected to AD .
On the tenant several users are already been created and assigned an office license
The users login are in the form z.user@company.onmicrosoft.com and used when the office application have been installed locally on the PC .
Now we're going to set up the AD Sync and wondered about the "duplication" of the users .
The AD users will be replicated with their UPN r.user@company.com but also with their tenant email address which will be the same as the one already present .
So what happen then to the users already registered in the tenant ?
Will they be impacted ?
thanks
Stefano
Feb 15 2021 08:53 AM
You can use the "soft match" process to "link" the AD user with an existing Azure AD one: https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/topic/how-to-use-smtp-matching-to-match-on-premises-user-account...
Feb 15 2021 11:08 PM - edited Feb 15 2021 11:12 PM
@Vasil MichevReading the article I see that it works using the smtp address as soft match, it it requires that the users have an active mailbox on exchange online.
Unfortunately the customer has only on-prem exchange
thanks
Feb 16 2021 12:41 AM
It works on "mail" attribute as well, and if that is not an option, you can use UPN matching: https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/troubleshoot/azure/active-directory/use-upn-matching-identity-sync
Or use the hard-match method: https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/archive/blogs/praveenkumar/how-to-do-hard-match-in-dirsync