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mlotfy
Jul 12, 2020Copper Contributor
Lost on premises AD and we want to sync office 365 accounts with the new AD with the same forest
We had a disaster at work, we lost all VMs and Backups. now we build a new AD om premises with the same forest and need to sync again with office 365. accounts were syncing with password hash synchr...
VasilMichev
Jul 12, 2020MVP
Just to add a small correction - soft match will not work in this scenario, as it requires the ImmutableID to be null. You'll either have to disable dirsynd in order to nullify the ImmutableId's of each user, or simply use the hard match method instead.
Spiros Karampinis
Jul 12, 2020Brass Contributor
Hello VasilMichev , thank you for the correction, nice addition.
I, maybe wrong, assumed that as his AD on-premises is lost,
he has already disabled DirSync to be able to manage the cloud objects, but your addition makes everything more clear
Kind regards
Spiros
- mlotfyJul 12, 2020Copper ContributorThanks all for replies, would you please describe steps as now there is no Ad connect installed.
when we will install it it supposed to sync and there will be duplication of account on cloud , is that right?