Azure: Fix Unhealthy Identity synchronization. Yesterday I was in my office 365 portal, just checking an account, when I logged in I was presented with this message “Unhealthy Identity synchronization” on the office 365 portal admin homepage. You may see something like this in your office 365 portal if there is a Sync issue or some other problem with Azure AD Connect. I also received an email about an unhealthy sync. See snapshot of the email.
Subject: Unhealthy Identity synchronization Notification
As you can see below from the image, we haven’t had a directory sync for the last 54 hours.
Last directory sync Warning: last synced 54 hours ago
We will have to click on the link and see what the particular error is reporting with our Azure AD Connect Synchronization or use the link to troubleshoot our error.
Fixing problems with directory synchronization for Office 365
Ok, time now to review the version of AD Connect we are running on our local Active Directory and do a in-place upgrade to solve this issue, often times upgrading the AD Connect Sync client will resolve issues with the synchronization. Let see what’s the current version and what version we are running on our member server and see if we need to do the in-place upgrade.
The current version is 1.1.561.0 so there must be another issue going on, at this point we’ll try and run a few Power Shell Commands to push a sync. We will run
Start-ADSyncSyncCycle -PolicyType Initial - To push an initial sync over to office 365.
At this point when we ran the command we got a message back stating the sync was busy.
We also ran this command to see the health of the sync:
Get-ADSyncConnectorRunStatusSo we then opened to the Synchronization Scheduler to check the connectors, stopped them and ran a full synchronization, after that we restarted the member server.
This eventually cleared up our sync issue and from the portal we can see a healthy sync.
A great link you can use to troubleshoot your AD Connect Sync; also you may want to keep an eye on your syncs using the Azure AD Connect Health Dashboard that comes with Azure Active Directory Premium.