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2 thoughts on “Microsoft Intune Connector for Active Directory – Updated and Improved”

  1. Hi!
    thanks for the detailed post. I’m facing an issue that isn’T listed here and wonder if you would have an idea.

    When signing in the wizard, I get :
    a managed service account with name “” could not be set up due to the following error, unexpected error while searching for MSA: specified directory service attribute or value does not exist.

    in the log, it looks like this.
    ODJ Connector UI Error: 2 : ERROR: Enrollment failed. Detailed message is: Microsoft.Management.Services.ConnectorCommon.Exceptions.ConnectorConfigurationException: Unexpected error while searching for MSA: The specified directory service attribute or value does not exist.

    I believe I have all the requirements check… I tried to pre-create a gMSA account, set it to the service, no luck. On different servers as well, with or without the OU specified in the XML…. nothing budge…

    Any idea is more than welcomed!
    thanks
    Jonathan – SystemCenterDudes

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    • Hi Jonathan – great question, and you’re definitely not alone on this one.

      That specific error is a bit misleading, but the key part is “error while searching for MSA” rather than creating it. In the cases I’ve seen, this usually points to an Active Directory lookup issue, not a missing requirement in Intune itself.

      A few things that are not the root cause (even though they feel like they should be):

      Pre-creating a gMSA (unfortunately unsupported by the connector at the moment)

      The OU specified (or not specified) in the XML

      Setting the service to run under a manually created account

      The most common things I’d double-check instead:

      Managed Service Accounts container
      Make sure the “Managed Service Accounts” container exists at the domain root and is readable. The connector explicitly queries this container, and if it’s missing, hidden, or permissions are restricted, you’ll get exactly this error.

      Schema visibility
      Verify that the AD schema attributes for managed service accounts (for example msDS-ManagedServiceAccount) exist and are fully replicated. I’ve seen this break in domains that were upgraded in-place or restored at some point.

      Domain controller selection / replication
      The connector doesn’t let you choose a DC. If it’s hitting a DC where schema or container replication hasn’t completed yet (or a different site), the MSA lookup can fail even though “everything looks correct”.

      Permissions beyond create
      Even if the installing admin can create MSAs, make sure they also have read permissions on the Managed Service Accounts container and schema objects. Hardened AD environments sometimes block this unintentionally.

      One important note: right now, the connector expects to create and manage the MSA itself. Pre-creating a gMSA or assigning it manually tends to make things worse rather than better.

      If you check those areas and still hit the issue, I strongly suspect this is an edge-case bug in the new MSA discovery logic introduced with the updated connector. Hopefully we’ll see clearer documentation or a fix in an upcoming build.

      Hope this helps – let me know what you find

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