Azure AD Cross Tenant Synchronisation FIRST LOOK!

This week I’m delighted to have Arvind Harinder, Snr Product Manager in the Azure Active Directory Team in Redmond as my special guest. Arvind shares an exclusive first look at Azure AD cross-tenant synchronisation. This awesome and powerful new feature allows you to sync users from multiple tenants for what seems to be the ultimate in cross tenant collaboration. If you’re an IT Pro you’ll not want to miss this.

[JustSaying]

I have just passed my ms-500 the other day. Your channel helped a lot. Though it was tough cause not all our clients has the subscriptions or features. Your videos got me thru. Thanks Andy

[KefashWhite]

This is an amazing interview Andy. Arvind’s audio was a little muffled but great content.

[mohammadhaque]

Thank you Andy!! Very useful for Migration!!

[elhamkarshenas]

Hi Andy, not sure if this question was raised before - are you aware if external users are already setup in tenant via B2B collaboration, what happens if tenant synchronisation enables with their home tenant? Would it connect to the same external identity (I assume), or would it create another identity? Hopefully it connects to the same B2B identity to preserve all existing permissions and settings!

[scottt]

Good questions Andy! thank you for making this available

[michaelwhyte]

Great Video Andy. Def interested to know about the Teams experience. If the new "member" in Company B is accessing Teams channel in Company A hopefully they will not have to switch tenants in Teams as guests currently experience now.

[liveyrdream]

Thanks for the demo, very informative.

[b_wheel]

This looks great, the only thing that I think it's missing for an M&A (maybe there is another way to do it) is a way to allow all users to have an email address in the same single domain as an alias or even better as the primary.

[soloapefe]

How would this work for Teams collabs. Today when you are a guest in a other organizations teams, you must change to the correct org in the top right corner. Whitthis cross tenant sync, will the team in the external org show up in your main Teams? Or do you still need to change to the external org to see the teams you are a guest in?

[Adam]

What a great demo. Is it possible to add synced users to a group?

[zachariahthesonofzachariah]

Thanks Andy. I have setup a cross tenant sync and watching your video helped with the setup.
The users in both tenant still have to switch organisation to access channels and chat. Am I missing anything here ? Or Is it expected please ?

[H_Raja]

Great video, another question I had. I thought the target tenant would have the same UPN, but does not seem to be the case? Is that correct?

[OmerMFC]

Would've been great to see this then be implemented within SharePoint visually, great vid Andy!

[terry]

Hi Andy, I am very keen to know and would like to follow up with the latest update of this Cross Tenant Synchronisation function. May i know if there is any website/link that I can check for the latest update.

Thanks!

[thomasniemann]

Before i get my hopes up, compatible with Gcc High tenants?

[dingdonghello]

Great video. If I have a one way trust where tenant A permits users from tenant B as guests, which tenant requires the Azure AD Premium License?

[aakashcinecreations]

Hi Andy, This feature is good and solves our problems, i have a question on this, All our users are synced to cloud through AAD connect but still their UserType is Guest(we use this tenant for o365 purpose) now we want users from this tenant need to sync to other tenant, is that possible? Asking this because users are still Guests in home tenant

[humancarpet]

Really useful video and great questions posed to Arvind. This seems great. I've deployed as a test and setup and it seems to give great features - such as cross tenant address book etc..
Does seem to have broken our ability to add people from either tenant into shared channels though for native teams usage. Any experience of this?

[ReNiCGaming]

Hi, what if some users already have been added to guests in the other tenant then we enable this?

[jeffli]

Thank for your sharing. BTW, not sure one single on-premises AD account can sync with two different 365 tenant ? Cheers