Azure Active Directory Sync – Choose Specific OUs

Most Common Mistakes. On First Run – Admins – Run Azure Active Directory Sync and Choosing the whole domain/directory to sync.

And later realize they sync so much garbage accounts to Cloud.

Lets see how to cleanup this mess.

Open Azure Active Directory PowerShell.

Set-ADSyncScheduler –SyncCycleEnabled $False

Open Azure Synchronization Service Manager.

Right Click Properties.

Choose Containers –

Choose the OUs you need who has users and groups and computers which are running windows 10 to leverage azure feature sets

Now run a Full Import

Now you can see the Deletes –

if you see below error

Stopped-deletion-Threshold-exceeded.

Disable (Prevents accidental deletes) – Temporarily. use below command

Disable-ADSyncExportDeletionThreshold

Enabled it back (Prevents accidental deletes)

Enable-ADSyncExportDeletionThreshold

Enable Sync Scheduler Back.

Set-ADSyncScheduler –SyncCycleEnabled $True