microsoft start sketchpad in given working directory

This was slick, effective, easy and is working non-stop now for 5 days. I know it’s still preview, but YIKES this was night and day for setting up the connection. A wizard walked through a few simple steps and in a few moments it was syncing up to the cloud. The replacement for DirSync and other federated functions was in preview, and so loathe to try to untangle the failing DirSync, I thought I would give this a try. I dreaded having to go through this again with some poor MS Engineer, it wasn’t fun the first time. As more and more people’s passwords expired on the cycle, they had a live password to the network, and their old (last) password to Office 365. But no information was changing in the cloud. Nothing showed as to why it wasn’t syncing, from all appearances it was. Until it didn’t.Ībout two weeks ago it stopped. Long story short, it took a (very) talented Microsoft engineer hours to figure out how and why this wasn’t working and fix it, set up the tool for every three hours to sync, and voila! Our email addresses and passwords were now syncing to the cloud. To do this required DirSync, a weird little tool that seemed to be leftover from ForeFront identity manager.

What we wanted seemed simple, get our users info up in the cloud so they could log in to the Office 365 portal, install their software (on up to 5 PC’s!), get to OneDrive, SharePoint, etc. We want to eventually move to hybrid Exchange on-prem and cloud, but that’s a little ways down the road. When we first moved to Office 365 one of the most dreaded things to do was connect our Active Directory to ‘the cloud’.

Microsoft start sketchpad in given working directory