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Delete User from Azure AD

For whatever reason, I had an account in Azure AD that picked up the @foobar.onmicrosoft.com domain rather than the actual local domain. I suspect this happened because there was already an account manually created as a Global Admin so when the AD sync was happening, it could not create an account and defaulted to the onmicrosoft.com account.

In any regard, you can delete the account on Azure AD without affecting the Local AD. After the deletion, sync back to Azure AD from the Local AD.

These are the steps:

Connect to Office365/ExchangeOnline

Set-ExecutionPolicy RemoteSigned

$LiveCred = Get-Credential

$Session = New-PSSession -ConfigurationName Microsoft.Exchange -ConnectionUri https://ps.outlook.com/powershell/ -Credential $LiveCred -Authentication Basic -AllowRedirection

Import-PSSession $Session -AllowClobber

Connect to MSOnline

Install-Module AzureAD

Install-Module MSOnline

Connect-MsolService -Credential $LiveCred

Get the User / Delete the User

get-msoluser -searchstring foouser

get-MsolUser -ObjectId 33f85584-acde-4c23-aa00-d8ab654a258b

remove-MsolUser -ObjectId 33f85584-acde-4c23-aa00-d8ab654a258b

Connect to AzureAD & Verify the Account Does not Exist

Connect-azuread -Credential $LiveCred

get-AzureADUser

get-azureaduser -searchstring fooname

Permanently Delete

Go to Azure Acive Directory > Users > Deleted Users

Select User

Permanently Delete

Sync from Local AD

Then to sync back from the Local AD.

-connect directly to the system that has Azure AD Connect.

Check the schedule:

Get-ADSyncScheduler

Run the sync:

Start-ADSyncSyncCycle -PolicyType Delta

Notes

get-msoluser and get-azureaduser are pretty much the same in that they will provide the same basic details. They are different in that they connect to different endpoints of the service and therefore provide similar information but provide it differently.

In short, get-msoluser is the 'old way' and get-azureaduser is the 'new way.'

The problem is that the old way is easier to use and not everything is in the new way.

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