Month: February 2020

AADC Hybrid Sync

Convert a GUID into Base64 and vice versa

The Azure AD Connector (AADC) syncs user objects between local ADs and the Azure AD / O365. In most situations, the user sync uses the GUID (Global Unique Identifiers) values as a matching attribute that connects the local and the cloud account. Just because the GUID is globally unique and it (usually) does not change […]

Licensing

What exactly does SKU stand for again?

In the world of Microsoft O365 licenses, you hear very often the term “SKU“. There are O365 cloud service products that are described as “SKU“, you get license information with PowerShell commands with “SKU-something” in the name, they have “SKU IDs” or “Account SKU IDs“… …what appears here as “SKU Partnumber” appears elsewhere as “Product […]