In this blog post, I will cover how to force an AzureAD Sync from our on-premise AD Domain to the Azure Active Directory. For Reference, this is the error message which can be found in the O365 Admin Portal
Next, we need to connect to the Windows Server which is running the AzureAD Sync Service. For my ad.hypervlab.co.uk environment, I’ve created a dedicated server called ‘hypervlab-as01’ Once connected we will want to import the ADSync PowerShell Module.
Import ADSync Module
Import-Module "C:\Program Files\Microsoft Azure AD Sync\Bin\ADSync\ADSync.psd1"ADSync Commands.
CommandType Name Version Source
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Cmdlet Add-ADSyncAADServiceAccount 1.0.0.0 ADSync
Cmdlet Add-ADSyncAttributeFlowMapping 1.0.0.0 ADSync
Cmdlet Add-ADSyncConnector 1.0.0.0 ADSync
Cmdlet Add-ADSyncConnectorAnchorConstructionSettings 1.0.0.0 ADSync
Cmdlet Add-ADSyncConnectorAttributeInclusion 1.0.0.0 ADSync
Cmdlet Add-ADSyncConnectorHierarchyProvisioningMapping 1.0.0.0 ADSync
Cmdlet Add-ADSyncConnectorObjectInclusion 1.0.0.0 ADSync
Cmdlet Add-ADSyncGlobalSettingsParameter 1.0.0.0 ADSync
Cmdlet Add-ADSyncJoinConditionGroup 1.0.0.0 ADSync
Cmdlet Add-ADSyncRule 1.0.0.0 ADSync
Cmdlet Add-ADSyncRunProfile 1.0.0.0 ADSync
Cmdlet Add-ADSyncRunStep 1.0.0.0 ADSync
Cmdlet Add-ADSyncScopeConditionGroup 1.0.0.0 ADSync
Cmdlet Add-AgentToResourceGroup 1.0.0.0 ADSync
Cmdlet Disable-ADSyncConnectorPartition 1.0.0.0 ADSync
Cmdlet Disable-ADSyncConnectorPartitionHierarchy 1.0.0.0 ADSync
Cmdlet Disable-ADSyncExportDeletionThreshold 1.0.0.0 ADSync
Cmdlet Enable-ADSyncConnectorPartition 1.0.0.0 ADSync
Cmdlet Enable-ADSyncConnectorPartitionHierarchy 1.0.0.0 ADSync
Cmdlet Enable-ADSyncExportDeletionThreshold 1.0.0.0 ADSync
Cmdlet Get-ADSyncAADCompanyFeature 1.0.0.0 ADSync
Cmdlet Get-ADSyncAADPasswordResetConfiguration 1.0.0.0 ADSync
Cmdlet Get-ADSyncAADPasswordSyncConfiguration 1.0.0.0 ADSync
Cmdlet Get-ADSyncADConnectorSchemaDsml 1.0.0.0 ADSync
Cmdlet Get-ADSyncAutoUpgrade 1.0.0.0 ADSync
Cmdlet Get-ADSyncConnector 1.0.0.0 ADSync
Cmdlet Get-ADSyncConnectorHierarchyProvisioningDNCompo... 1.0.0.0 ADSync
Cmdlet Get-ADSyncConnectorHierarchyProvisioningMapping 1.0.0.0 ADSync
Cmdlet Get-ADSyncConnectorHierarchyProvisioningObjectC... 1.0.0.0 ADSync
Cmdlet Get-ADSyncConnectorParameter 1.0.0.0 ADSync
Cmdlet Get-ADSyncConnectorPartition 1.0.0.0 ADSync
Cmdlet Get-ADSyncConnectorPartitionHierarchy 1.0.0.0 ADSync
Cmdlet Get-ADSyncConnectorRunStatus 1.0.0.0 ADSync
Cmdlet Get-ADSyncConnectorStatistics 1.0.0.0 ADSync
Cmdlet Get-ADSyncConnectorTypes 1.0.0.0 ADSync
Cmdlet Get-ADSyncCSObject 1.0.0.0 ADSync
Cmdlet Get-ADSyncCSObjectLog 1.0.0.0 ADSync
Cmdlet Get-ADSyncDatabaseConfiguration 1.0.0.0 ADSync
Cmdlet Get-ADSyncExportDeletionThreshold 1.0.0.0 ADSync
Cmdlet Get-ADSyncGlobalSettings 1.0.0.0 ADSync
Cmdlet Get-ADSyncGlobalSettingsParameter 1.0.0.0 ADSync
Cmdlet Get-ADSyncMVObject 1.0.0.0 ADSync
Cmdlet Get-ADSyncPartitionPasswordSyncState 1.0.0.0 ADSync
Cmdlet Get-ADSyncRule 1.0.0.0 ADSync
Cmdlet Get-ADSyncRunProfile 1.0.0.0 ADSync
Cmdlet Get-ADSyncScheduler 1.0.0.0 ADSync
Cmdlet Get-ADSyncSchedulerConnectorOverride 1.0.0.0 ADSync
Cmdlet Get-ADSyncSchema 1.0.0.0 ADSync
Cmdlet Get-ADSyncServerConfiguration 1.0.0.0 ADSync
Cmdlet Invoke-ADSyncCSObjectPasswordHashSync 1.0.0.0 ADSync
Cmdlet Invoke-ADSyncRunProfile 1.0.0.0 ADSync
Cmdlet New-ADSyncConnector 1.0.0.0 ADSync
Cmdlet New-ADSyncJoinCondition 1.0.0.0 ADSync
Cmdlet New-ADSyncRule 1.0.0.0 ADSync
Cmdlet New-ADSyncRunProfile 1.0.0.0 ADSync
Cmdlet New-ADSyncScopeCondition 1.0.0.0 ADSync
Cmdlet Register-Agent 1.0.0.0 ADSync
Cmdlet Remove-ADSyncAADPasswordResetConfiguration 1.0.0.0 ADSync
Cmdlet Remove-ADSyncAADPasswordSyncConfiguration 1.0.0.0 ADSync
Cmdlet Remove-ADSyncAADServiceAccount 1.0.0.0 ADSync
Cmdlet Remove-ADSyncAttributeFlowMapping 1.0.0.0 ADSync
Cmdlet Remove-ADSyncConnector 1.0.0.0 ADSync
Cmdlet Remove-ADSyncConnectorAnchorConstructionSettings 1.0.0.0 ADSync
Cmdlet Remove-ADSyncConnectorAttributeInclusion 1.0.0.0 ADSync
Cmdlet Remove-ADSyncConnectorHierarchyProvisioningMapping 1.0.0.0 ADSync
Cmdlet Remove-ADSyncConnectorObjectInclusion 1.0.0.0 ADSync
Cmdlet Remove-ADSyncGlobalSettingsParameter 1.0.0.0 ADSync
Cmdlet Remove-ADSyncJoinConditionGroup 1.0.0.0 ADSync
Cmdlet Remove-ADSyncRule 1.0.0.0 ADSync
Cmdlet Remove-ADSyncRunProfile 1.0.0.0 ADSync
Cmdlet Remove-ADSyncRunStep 1.0.0.0 ADSync
Cmdlet Remove-ADSyncScopeConditionGroup 1.0.0.0 ADSync
Cmdlet Search-ADSyncDirectoryObjects 1.0.0.0 ADSync
Cmdlet Set-ADSyncAADCompanyFeature 1.0.0.0 ADSync
Cmdlet Set-ADSyncAADPasswordResetConfiguration 1.0.0.0 ADSync
Cmdlet Set-ADSyncAADPasswordSyncConfiguration 1.0.0.0 ADSync
Cmdlet Set-ADSyncAADPasswordSyncState 1.0.0.0 ADSync
Cmdlet Set-ADSyncAutoUpgrade 1.0.0.0 ADSync
Cmdlet Set-ADSyncConnectorParameter 1.0.0.0 ADSync
Cmdlet Set-ADSyncDirSyncConfiguration 1.0.0.0 ADSync
Cmdlet Set-ADSyncGlobalSettings 1.0.0.0 ADSync
Cmdlet Set-ADSyncScheduler 1.0.0.0 ADSync
Cmdlet Set-ADSyncSchedulerConnectorOverride 1.0.0.0 ADSync
Cmdlet Set-ADSyncSchema 1.0.0.0 ADSync
Cmdlet Set-ADSyncServerConfiguration 1.0.0.0 ADSync
Cmdlet Set-MIISADMAConfiguration 1.0.0.0 ADSync
Cmdlet Start-ADSyncAADPasswordResetEndpoint 1.0.0.0 ADSync
Cmdlet Start-ADSyncPurgeRunHistory 1.0.0.0 ADSync
Cmdlet Start-ADSyncSyncCycle 1.0.0.0 ADSync
Cmdlet Stop-ADSyncAADPasswordResetEndpoint 1.0.0.0 ADSync
Cmdlet Stop-ADSyncRunProfile 1.0.0.0 ADSync
Cmdlet Stop-ADSyncSyncCycle 1.0.0.0 ADSync
Cmdlet Test-AdSyncAzureServiceConnectivity 1.0.0.0 ADSync
Cmdlet Test-ADSyncGetDirectoryReplicationChanges 1.0.0.0 ADSync
Cmdlet Test-AdSyncUserHasPermissions 1.0.0.0 ADSync
Cmdlet Update-ADSyncConnectorPartition 1.0.0.0 ADSync
Cmdlet Update-ADSyncConnectorSchema 1.0.0.0 ADSync
Cmdlet Update-ADSyncDirectoryObject 1.0.0.0 ADSync
Cmdlet Update-ADSyncDRSCertificates 1.0.0.0 ADSync
Cmdlet Update-ADSyncPartitions 1.0.0.0 ADSync
Before we Initiate a Force Sync lets check when the next sync time is scheduled:
Get-ADSyncScheduler
Notice that the bottom value “SyncCycleInProgress” is currently False
Start-ADSyncSyncCycle -PolicyType Initial -Verbose
After we have initiated the force sync we can check back to see what the Scheduler is doing:
As you can see the value “SyncCycleInProgress” has now changed to “True” if we swap back to the Office Admin Portal we can see that now the last directory sync was 3 minutes ago.
