Azure Active Directory Connect (AAD Connect), the directory synchronization tool to synchronize your Active Directory with Azure AD, just got refreshed with the release of the new version 1.5.18.0

In addition of the usual bug fixes – see below, there has been some improvements too:

• Fixed issues:
• Fixed a bug in the group writeback forest/OU selector on rerunning the Azure AD Connect wizard after disabling the feature
• Introduced a new error page that will be displayed if the required DCOM registry values are missing with a new help link. Information is also written to log files
• Fixed an issue with the creation of the Azure Active Directory synchronization account where enabling Directory Extensions or PHS may fail because the account has not propagated across all service replicas before attempted use
• Fixed a bug in the sync errors compression utility that was not handling surrogate characters correctly
• Fixed a bug in the auto upgrade which left the server in the scheduler suspended state
• New feature:
• Added support for the mS-DS-ConsistencyGuid feature for group objects, allowing group moves between AD forest and keeping them in sync with Azure AD (you can read more about here https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/active-directory/hybrid/how-to-connect-migrate-groups). This feature is automatically enabled
• CSDelete.exe tool – which was used to clean up the connectors – has been replaced by a PowerShell command Remove-ADSyncCSObject

You can download the new version of Azure AD Connect here https://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkId=615771