Ridiculous Password Requirements for Office 365 email

[fairm010]

Cheers James, I appreciate your help so much!

 

I'm swayed to DirSync but I have a few questions if thats ok?

 

1) My email domain schoolname.co.uk is different to my internal domain name schoolname.local. Is this a problem?

 

2) All my users have been uploaded using a CSV, will their synced accounts just 'merge' or overwrite?

 

3) Can I choose certain OU's that I want to sync?

 

4) My users log in in school using smitj001 and I want their email to be [email protected]. Can I tell Dirsync to use their logon name?

 

Sorry if this seems basic but I've just had O365 set up for me and I'm new to this. I know @FN-GM has set up DirSync, perhaps you can help?

 

Thanks all.

[EduTech]

Hi,

 

Sure,

 

1) no, you will need to add your External Domain as a UPN Suffix in AD Domains & Trusts and then you will be able to set your User Account 'user principal name' in the correct format, which then is populated in O365, generally it will be SAMAccountName@UPN but some people tend to also replace the UPN Prefix to be the Primary SMTP Address as users do not use the UPN to sign-in and so therefore then end up with a UPN that matches the Primary SMTP Address and users still login to a workstation with SAMAccountName.

 

2) When you do an initial sync the accounts will soft-match based on various attributes, providing you do not have more than 1 account in AD for each user then generally this won't give you any issues. You can review the follow KB article for guidance How to use SMTP matching to match on-premises user accounts to Office 365 user accounts for directory synchronization

 

3) Yes, If you want to implement OU Filtering this is supported with Windows Azure Directory Sync and to find out further information around how to configure this see the following TechNet article: Configure filtering for directory synchronization

 

4) As per (1) if you want that to be the case, then you should just leave the UPN attribute for the User Objects (Account Tab) as it is and just change the UPN Suffix to the appropriate domain.

 

I hope that answers your questions.

 

Regards,

James.