We have just started to deploy a Hybrid Office 365 Solution and we already had some users who signed up to Office 365 themselves, before we had full access to the domain and enabled DirSync. This has caused some issues.
At the moment we have our internal UPN suffix as company.internal but I have added a extra UPN suffix under Active Directory Domains and Trusts for company.com and set a group of users as well as a test user, to the correct external domain name. This is all working fine.
After running DirSync I noticed that the In Cloud users already existing now have two accounts, one "In Cloud" and one "Synced with AD". The synced account name/email was username@companycom.onmicrosoft.com.
Now to get them to merge… I did some extensive Google searches and came across two methods:
- SMTP mail matching;
proxySMTPAdressesmatching. ImmutableIDmatching toIn Cloudaccount.
Neither of these worked BUT using a test account, I was able to set the In Cloud user to the ImmutableID of it's synced user and they merged perfectly fine.
I thought this method would continue to work but I was very wrong! It does not work for any other user and keeps throwing a Unique AnchorSource ID error.
I do not want to have to create a 'fresh' AD account for all staff that currently have an AD account just to do SMTP matching. We also have on-premises Exchange servers which is making this annoying.
Can anyone give me some advice? I am stuck!
Best Answer
I would highly recommend that you follow the troubleshooting guides from Microsoft on this topic, will not copy/past them as they're long and very will formated from the source.
they have two well know knowledge base articles that will solve almost all of your problems.
And of course, if those didn't work, I'd recommend you open a ticket with the Office 365 support team, they are very efficient on solving such problems.