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Yes, you can do this in multiple ways<br />
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Yes, you can do this in multiple ways

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Has anyone got experience with this and what is the considered the easiest way ?
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Has anyone got experience with this and what is the considered the easiest way ?

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It's only for a small 40 users network and only really want the benefit to keep user password and AD groups and permissions in sync with 365 etc.
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It's only for a small 40 users network and only really want the benefit to keep user password and AD groups and permissions in sync with 365 etc.

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Also I'm not clear if any of these sync tools are actually free?
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Also I'm not clear if any of these sync tools are actually free?

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Hi I've been asked by a client if they can have all their Active Directory groups and info sync up into their Office 365 account.<br />
Is this straight forward to have a consistent sync between the AD and 365 portal?
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Hi I've been asked by a client if they can have all their Active Directory groups and info sync up into their Office 365 account.
Is this straight forward to have a consistent sync between the AD and 365 portal?

Windows 2012 Standard Active Directory Sync to 365 Portal?

Office 365 is a group of software plus services subscriptions that provides productivity software and related services to its subscribers. Office 365 allows the use of Microsoft Office apps on Windows and OS X, provides storage space on Microsoft's cloud storage service OneDrive, and grants 60 Skype minutes per month. Office 365 includes e-mail and social networking services through hosted versions of Exchange Server, Skype for Business Server, SharePoint and Office Online, integration with Yammer, as well as access to the Office software. All of Office 365's components can be managed and configured through an online portal; users can be added manually, imported from a CSV file, or Office 365 can be set up for single sign-on with a local Active Directory using Active Directory Federation Services.

Microsoft 365

Windows Server 2012 is the server version of Windows 8 and the successor to Windows Server 2008 R2. Windows Server 2012 is the first version of Windows Server to have no support for Itanium-based computers since Windows NT 4.0. Windows Server 2012, now in its second release (Windows Server 2012 Release 2) includes Foundation, Essentials, Standard and Datacenter, and does not support IA-32 or IA-64 processors.