A new discovery method: Meet the Azure Active Directory User Discovery!

This week a blog post about the addition of a new discovery method, as Configuration Manager 1706 introduces the Azure Active Directory User Discovery. This discovery method enables organizations to search Azure AD for user information. It adds the cloud-only users to the Configuration Manager environment and it adds additional attributes to the existing on-premises user objects. The attributes that are discovered are objectId, displayName, mail, mailNickname, onPremisesSecurityIdentifier, userPrincipalName and AAD tenantID. In this post I’ll show how to configure the Azure Active Directory User Discovery and I’ll show a couple of challenges that I faced during the configuration. I’ll end this post with the administrator experience. The configuration options for the administrator and the important places for the administrator to look for the additional …

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