DirSync AD Attributes for Office 365 ProPlus services.

Hello,
I am installing Directory Synchronization tool on my DirSync server. By default it syncs lots of AD attributes to cloud. What are the minimum Ad attribute requirements that must be synced to cloud for proper authentication to Office 365 ProPlus services.
Thanks
NerKO

Actually DirSync has been around a lot longer than O365, both ADAM and ADLDS leverage dirsync. FIM itself started as MIIS, which Microsoft acquired in 1997. It has gone through various iterations since them from ILM to FIM.
It is not reverse engineering to use Dirsync to synchronize objects between directories. FIM gives one the ability to transform objects and attributes during the synchronization and easily connect multiple LDAP sources.

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