Change Entra Connect OU Filter Without Reinstalling: Sync Service Manager Path
You set up an OU filter at install time per Part 7. Months later, you need to change it — new OUs were added that should sync, old OUs got…
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Entra Connect Seamless SSO: Silent Sign-In for Domain-Joined Users
Domain-joined users sign in to Windows in the morning, hit a Microsoft 365 URL in the browser, and… get prompted for their password. Why? They’re already authenticated on this machine;…
Find Your Entra Connect Server: Ask the Cloud (No RDP Required)
You inherited an Entra Connect deployment with no documentation. Or you suspect there’s a rogue EC install somewhere on your network. Or you’re auditing for compliance and need to know…
Find Your Entra Connect Version: 4 Ways (Cloud, GUI, Sync App, PowerShell)
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…
Entra Connect Install Walk-Through: Custom Mode + Pass-Hash Sync
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…
Entra Connect Architecture: The 4 Components and 5-Step Sync Cycle
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…
Run IdFix to Clean Active Directory Before Entra Connect Sync
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…
Prep a Non-Routable AD Domain for Entra Connect: UPN Suffix Bulk Update
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…
Enable TLS 1.2 for the Entra Connect Server (Microsoft Learn Scripts)
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.…
Download Two Entra Connect Versions: Stage the Lab for an Upgrade Demo
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 Prerequisites: The Nine-Bucket Pre-Install Checklist
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…
Microsoft Entra Password Protection for On-Prem AD: The Clean Teardown
The previous two posts in this series stood up Microsoft Entra Password Protection on an on-prem AD forest — Part 1 walked the architecture and prerequisites, Part 2 walked the…