New Azure AD Connect install - missing Powershell modules

[3s-gtech]

Pulling my little remaining hair out here.

 

MS, in their wisdom, have neglected to bundle the 'ADSync' powershell module with a new install of Azure AD Connect (they have bundled the msonline module though). That means that unless you are upgrading from Azure AD Sync or Dirsync, you don't get this module and you lack the associated commands. Unfortunately, these commands are pretty useful (like, lots of stuff doesn't work without them like the Synchronization Rules Editor). The editor throws an error when starting, and all of MS's documentation assumes that you have this module.

 

Unfortunately, I have managed to import lots of users that I don't need, so changing the filtering rules will help a lot, and for that I need the module.

 

Can anyone point me in the direction of where I can download this module or get it to me in some way?

[bossman]

Couple of links here:

 

https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/powershell/azuread/v2/azureactivedirectory

 

https://onlinehelp.coveo.com/en/ces/7.0/administrator/installing_the_windows_azure_ad_module_for_windows_powershell.htm

 

Are they of any help?

[3s-gtech]

Unfortunately not - I already have msonline (which doesn't contain any of these commandlets) and the V2 commandlets are different. It's just the adsync module - the same one that I imagine everyone running Office 365 here has but wasn't bundled with the version I've just installed.

[Geoff]

Download Details | Microsoft Connect

[3s-gtech]

That one contains msonline.psd1 (the standard powershell module) but doesn't conain adsync.psd1, which lots of other parts of Azure AD use (for instance, I can't do Disable-ADSyncExportDeletionThreshold because the command isn't found. That command is not included in msonline.psd1.

[bossman]

@3s-gtech

 

This one any good?

 

https://github.com/Azure/azure-docs-powershell-azuread/blob/master/Azure%20AD%20Cmdlets/AzureAD/index.md

[3s-gtech]

To get hold of that one module, no sorry. That links to the v2 module which adds more commands, but doesn't include the core ones. It's also damn near impossible to download, needing a bunch of PS extensions, updates and guff. I literally just need a recent copy of adsync.psd1, and MS don't provide this.

[Vossige]

To load the Azure AD Connect PowerShell module, use this command:

 

Import-Module "C:\Program Files\Microsoft Azure AD Sync\Bin\ADSync\ADSync.psd1"

 

For more info about this issue, see the Technet blog of Rhoderick Milne:

https://blogs.technet.microsoft.com/rmilne/2014/10/01/how-to-run-manual-dirsync-azure-active-directory-sync-updates/

[3s-gtech]

I guess newer versions of AADC fixed this, as I haven't had any further issues in the interim.