How to Sync Changes in AD to Azure Manually

Sync Active Directory Changes to Azure AD.  

 

Syncing Changes in AD to Azure Manually

With an Azure AD connect server and services setup on your domain, password changes occur within seconds. 

Other property changes to Active Directory objects take longer to sync to Azure. Any user property, group property , or group membership changes all take a significantly longer time to sync. The shortest time possible is 30 Minutes . The sync time cannot be changed. it is set by Microsoft and cannot be modified with PowerShell or any other means. This is by design by Microsoft. 

Azure syncing and other issues related to Microsoft Active Directory and other productivity applications can be supported online. Online remote support software enables remote access    to systems such as servers and desktop through the web - https://www.4remotesupport.com/ . Also enabled is full remote control of keyboard and mouse, not just viewing capabilities are  available.   

Perform a Manual Sync 

There comes times when you want to sync changes made in your local domain environment to Azure quickly. This can be accomplished using a manual delta sync. It is a command line PowerShell option that will send recent changes in AD to Azure before the scheduled time. 

The following command when run on your AD Sync server will send changes immediately to Azure.

Open an elevated PowerShell session and run the following command as shown in the screen cap above. 

              C:\>Start-ADSyncSyncCycle -PolicyType Delta

Be sure to add the -delta at the end and if you have a spread out domain structure where your domain controllers are in multiple locations and syncing sometimes takes time, be sure to give enough time for the local changes to have replicated or force a sync of your local domain first.