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AADConnect: Attribute-based Filtering

As a hands-on practice area lead, I get to deliver projects both directly as an architect, and indirectly as an Engagement Manger. In one recent project, one of my Higher Ed clients wanted to setup attribute-based filtering. The matter got escalated to me and I helped the client in setting this up. I documented the process to my client and thought there may be others who may find this helpful as well. In this article I will not be going into what  AADConnect  is and how to deploy the same. I will assume that you already know about  AADConnect  and possibly have deployed the same as well. One of the features of  AADConnect  is the ability to filter objects that are synched to Azure AD. The default and the recommended configuration are to sync all objects in all domains in the configured forest. There are cases, however, that requires us to filter the objects to be synched.  AADConnect  provides the following filtering options: Group-base...