SharePoint Excellence

Overview When we are working with Office 365 in our organization, some time there is requirement to connect on premise AD to get feed and update it. In this article, I’m explaining a case; export data from AD only for specific (custom) attribute and update it in SharePoint user profile. Requirement We are working on Office 365 and in user profile we have created some additional custom attribute. By default, Office 365 supports sync only default properties with AD. To sync additional custom properties, we have to write custom sync engine. Microsoft has released API to sync additional attributes. Solution Microsoft has released Bulk update custom user profile properties for SharePoint Online APIs to direct sync custom attributes from JSON feed file. To achieve solution, below are the steps Create and upload JSON feed file Feed output of step 1, to Microsoft Bulk User Import API Check the status of an import job Create and upload a JSON feed file It’s the im...