The first thing any Entra Connect troubleshooting call asks: which version are you running. Microsoft’s release cadence is brisk; minor sync issues often turn out to be known bugs in…
Six posts of preparation; one post of actual install. With the prereqs validated (Part 1), installer staged (Part 2), TLS 1.2 enforced (Part 3), UPN suffixes fixed (Part 4), AD…
Before walking the actual Entra Connect installer in the next post, take a step back and understand what you’re installing. The Entra Connect “Sync Engine” is more than a single…
The TLS configuration from Part 3 got the server ready. The UPN suffix work in Part 4 got the user identities ready. There’s one more gate before the Entra Connect…
Your internal AD domain is something like infotechninja.local or corp.internal. Microsoft can’t verify those domains in the cloud because they’re not real internet domains. If you sync as-is, every user…
Part 3 of the Entra Connect series. We’ve covered the prerequisites (Part 1) and staged the installer files (Part 2). Now we need a server to run Entra Connect on.…
Part 1 of this series covered the prerequisites for installing Microsoft Entra Connect. Now Part 2: stage the installer files. The catch — we want TWO versions, not one. The…
Microsoft Entra Connect is the bridge between your on-prem Active Directory and your Entra ID (formerly Azure AD) tenant. It runs on a Windows server in your environment and handles…
