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Perform a Full OLSync Synchronisation to Outlook Live

Applies to: Live@edu

Topic last modified: 2011-12-05

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Outlook Live Directory Sync (OLSync) is the synchronisation solution for Microsoft Live@edu customers. If you are running a cloud-based email service with Microsoft Office 365 for enterprises, you must use the Microsoft Online Services Directory Synchronisation tool to synchronise your directories.

Perform this set of synchronisation operations to import the data into the metaverse, synchronise the data, complete "join" operations and export data to your Outlook Live domain. You must perform a full synchronisation whenever you make changes to the additional parameters.

For more information about how data is exported to Outlook Live and what each synchronisation operation does, see How Outlook Live Directory Sync Works.

There are two ways to run the synchronisation operations. Using a Windows PowerShell script is the recommended approach.

Run the synchronisation operations by using a Windows PowerShell script

When you run Outlook Live Directory Sync (OLSync) Setup, the script, StartSync.ps1, is copied to the following directory: <system drive>:\Program Files\Microsoft Identity Integration Server\SourceCode\Scripts. Use this script to automate synchronisation operations with Windows PowerShell.

  1. On the computer that is running FIM 2010 or ILM 2007, click Start > All Programs > Windows PowerShell > Windows PowerShell.
  2. Navigate to <system drive>:\Program Files\Microsoft Identity Integration Server\SourceCode\Scripts.
  3. Run the following command:
    Copy
    .\StartSync -FirstRun

Windows PowerShell will run each synchronisation operation and then report on the status. All values in the Status column should say "success." If you get errors, see Troubleshoot Outlook Live Directory Sync.

Run the synchronisation operations manually by using the FIM 2010 or ILM 2007 user interface

Synchronisation operations must be run in order. If they're not run in order, you may corrupt your metaverse data. Running the synchronisation operations manually requires several similar steps and is error-prone. Therefore, it is a best practice to use the Windows PowerShell script as described in the first section of this topic. We include the manual steps here in case you need to refer to them for troubleshooting purposes.

  1. If you’re using Forefront Identity Manager (FIM) 2010, click Start > All Programs > Microsoft Forefront Identity Manager > Synchronisation Service.
    If you’re using Microsoft Identity Lifecycle Manager (ILM) 2007, click Start > All Programs > Microsoft Identity Integration Server > Identity Manager.
  2. Click Management Agents.
  3. Right-click the management agent that you want to synchronise and then click Run.
  4. In the Run Management Agent dialogue box, select the operation you want to run and then click OK.
    Note   You can queue up synchronisation of more than one management agent in the FIM 2010 or ILM 2007 user interface. Management agents are run in the order that you set them. You can view a log of operations that have run by clicking the Operations tab in the Synchronisation Service Manager in FIM 2010 or the Identity Manager in ILM 2007.
    Run the following operations on these management agents in this order.

    Management agent Operation

    1. OnPremise

    Full Import (Stage Only)

    2. Hosted

    Full Import (Stage Only)

    3. OnPremise

    Full Sync

    4. Hosted

    Delta Sync

    5. Hosted

    Export

    6. Hosted

    Delta Import (Stage Only)

    To verify that the synchronisation was successful, in the Synchronisation Service Manager in FIM 2010 or the Identity Manager in ILM 2007, click Operations. Synchronisation is successful when all values in the Status column say "success". If you get errors, see Troubleshoot Outlook Live Directory Sync.

Test to verify that synchronisation is working properly

To verify that the accounts in the on-premises provisioning domain were synchronised correctly to your Outlook Live domain, see Verify OLSync Synchronisation to Outlook Live.

If you get errors, see Troubleshoot Outlook Live Directory Sync.

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