Hi,
I work for four schools who have very different setups at present and over the course of the year we are planning on merging each of their domains into one domain.
The first two schools are being looked at now, relatively small with only about 500 students in each and 60 or so staff. At present one of them is using o365 fully and the plan is to use that tenant for the other 3 schools, we're happy with the process of adding the other schools 'email' domains to this.
The problem is that the other small school currently has no email solution for students (I know!) and are now wanting to use o365, the problem is that we're not ready to merge their AD domains yet.
The question.... I'd like to use DIRSYNC to sync the users from their AD Domain into the o365 Tenant of the other school (obviously I'll need to deal with any duplicates but their shouldn't be many) I believe this should be fine, the problem is that within the next 6 months we'll probably be merging these users into a new AD Domain, how do we then make sure that the user in the new domain (probably been migrated from the old domain to the new one) is still assigned the correct mailbox in o365 and the password syncing still works without duplicating all the users again.
I think that makes sense! As I type I'm wondering whether this could be solved by using the new AADSYNC?
Thanks
Pauil