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Synchronizing on-premises users and groups

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Synchronizing on-premises users and groups

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- [Instructor] Earlier in the course, we talked about synchronizing devices from on-prem environments to the cloud, in this case, to Entra ID from on-prem Active Directory or AD DS. We're just going to go back into that a little bit, talk about synchronizing users and groups. So typically, you're going to set up synchronization of your security principles from your on-prem environments to your instance or your tenant of Entra ID. And you may configure two-way synchronization in some circumstances. For example, when you allow users to change their password, self-service password reset, then you might want, or you will want to be able to do password writeback. So that's very common configuration. You may also wish to configure writeback of things like group changes. So if you modify group memberships, for example, that are synced entities in the cloud, then you'll want to make sure that those can be written back as well. So what is directory synchronization? It enables users to use a…

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