netboy34
join:2001-08-29
Kennesaw, GA
kudos:1 | Using DirSync (aka FIM 2010 lite) to populate a test AD Env so one of the other groups decided today that they wanted to build an exact replica of the AD environment for testing some software the writes to AD objects. We could clone the environment weekly, but would take more time than it is worth to us (the Windows Server and AD guys)
Now we (and by "we" I mean "I") have been setting up federation to office 365 for users, groups and Single sign on.
I got to thinking, could I use Dirsync since it is basically FIM, to push a sync of the AD data from the production to the Test environment DC and it not accept anything back like Office 365?
The active directory gets its information imported nightly from the Identity management system so any type of tie-in with that would overwrite data too soon for them.
TL;DR
is there a way to replicate the export, and delta export functions of the office 365 processes to export to a test AD domain and DC so the client access group can test with weekly updated copy of live data |
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 Badger3kWe Don't Need No Stinkin BadgersPremium
join:2001-09-27
Franklin, OH | The DirSync used to Office 365 doesn't do everything, passwords for one. So I'm not sure it would be a good option even if you could make it work.
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netboy34
join:2001-08-29
Kennesaw, GA
kudos:1 | I believe there is a spot that I found that it will sync passwords, but it is turned off for the office 365 scripts as adfs takes care of the passwords.
And to be honest, passwords would most likely be changed anyway |
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 PToN
join:2001-10-04
Houston, TX | reply to netboy34
Active Directory Migration Tool.
I used it to migrate from DOMAIN.COM to DOMAIN.LAN and was able to concurrently sustain the 2 domains side by side. This did migrate passwords too. It takes a bit of reading to setup the domains to be able to do migration, but it did work without major issues.
Now, i even think there is a way to keep the same SID for the user accounts.
Might be worth looking into. |
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