Moving O365 user to AD

[CAWJames]

Evening all,

 

Weird one and linked to other posts I have made. We currently hold our staff in AD and our students in O365(cloud only). We use DirSync to sync our staff with AD.

 

We are seriously considering moving the student accounts into AD, as most things these days have AD integration and we can keep tabs on the students online trails a lot easier. We still want to keep the students O365 services etc, so they will still have a presence in O365, but just be homed in AD like our staff and DirSync like them too.

 

So...I am assuming this is not an easy thing to do, as most people are migrating the other way! Are there any known ways other than export import with CSV's etc. I would like the passwords to migrate with them. Any powershell that can achieve this, or are we up a certain brown creek with out any implements?

 

Thanks

 

James

[FN-GM]

How do your students login to the schools computers?

 

Anyway I don't its as hard as you think. But you won't be able to export the passwords they are stored using a non reversible encryption.

 

1. Export a list of users from Office 365 using the web interface.
   
2. Seperate out the users you want to work with in Excel.
   
3. Use this to populate the users in AD & make sure the full username including the suffix match in AD. - Account Management Spreadsheet
   
4. Setup DirSync to point to your new students OU and perform a full sync. It will then automatically link the Office 365 users to AD users as the fullusername including the suffix match
   

 

Should take an hour tops.

Edited September 22, 2016 by FN-GM

[CAWJames]

They don't! Generic student users. Hence the serious consideration.