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Verify the synchronization settings

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Verify the synchronization settings

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- [Instructor] Sometimes, especially in troublehshooting situations, you may wish to gain a little bit more insight into the synchronization process and you can do that through PowerShell. So right now, I've got PowerShell open. I'm signed in as an administrator and I've got the AD Sync module loaded. So what I'm going to do is I'm just going to type get AD Sync scheduler and press Enter and that's going to return some basic information about the synchronization schedule. So if we start looking through this there are a few things that we can pick up on right away. First of all, you'll notice that the next sync cycle policy type is set to delta. This indicates that only changes are going to be synchronized. We're not doing a full synchronization of our entire active directory every single time the synchronization process runs. We can also see that the allowed sync cycle interval is set to 30 minutes. That's the default and that's also the minimum synchronization period that Azure AD…

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