Fix Intune Sync Error 0x80072f0c Issue

Let’s try to Fix Intune Sync Error 0x80072f0c. SCCM Intune Sync Issue with MDM Client Error 0x80072f0c Microsoft Endpoint Manager? A greenfield environment with all new trail versions of SCCM, AD, Intune, AAD Premium, and EMS. 

SCCM current branch is connected to trail Intune subscription, and on-premises AD is synced with  Azure AD Premium using AD connect. I could see on-premises AD users in Azure AD and Intune console.

We have also enabled the Azure AD + MDM auto-enrolment feature in the Azure AD tenant. This setting helps users to get Out Of Box Experience (OOBE), as I explained in the post here.

SCCM Intune Sync Issue with Error 0x80072f0c

In this scenario, the Windows 10 device was able to auto-enroll to Azure AD and MDM; however, Intune MDM agent (not full Intune Agent) could not sync with Intune. When we tried to sync, it gave the following error “The sync could not be initiated (0x80072f0c)”. The error translates to “A certificate is required to complete client authentication Source: Winhttp”

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SCCM Intune Sync Issue with MDM Client Error 0x80072f0c Microsoft Endpoint Manager Fix Intune Sync Error 0x80072f0c Issue
Fix Intune Sync Error 0x80072f0c Issue

Basic troubleshooting didn’t help us much. We checked the Azure AD Premium licenses; licenses have been assigned to users correctly.  In SCCM 2012, there is Intune connector role for a hybrid scenario; however, in SCCM CB, that site system role is deprecated, and there is a default role called “Service Connection Point“. Everything looks ok between Intune and SCCM with the log files.

On-Premise AD and Azure AD sync are also working fine. When we checked the SCCM SQL DB for User Discovery table, we found that some of the values like UPN suffix name (User_Principal_Name0) and Cloud User IDs (CloudUserID) are not getting populated correctly.  Following SQL query can be used to find out user discovery data from SCCM SQL DB “select * from User_DISC“.

For example, in the below screen capture, you can see some users with UPN like “@dwpoc01outlook.onmicrosoft.com” and some are with “dwpoc.local“. Also, Cloud ID is not allocated to some of the users like “NAA” CloudUserID = NULL:-

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Fix Intune Sync Error 0x80072f0c Issue

Intune Error 0x80072f0c Microsoft Endpoint Manager?

Now we identified that the UPN suffix s of some of the on Prem AD users are not correct, and that could create a problem in MDM enrolment and SCCM + MDM sync on Windows 10 devices.

So, we need to think about the fix to this issue. How do we change the UPN values of users? There are two ways you can edit the User_Disc table and update the correct UPNs, but that is NOT recommended.

The next option is to go on-premises AD and create a new alternate UPN suffix, as you can see in the following screen capture. How t0 Add a UPN Suffix to a Forest:-

  1. Open Active Directory Domains and Trusts.
  2. Right-click Active Directory Domains and Trusts in the Tree window pane, and then click Properties.
  3. On the UPN Suffixes tab, type the new UPN suffix you would like to add to the forest.
  4. Click Add, and then click OK.
SCCM Intune Sync Issue with MDM Client Error 0x80072f0c Microsoft Endpoint Manager
Fix Intune Sync Error 0x80072f0c Issue
SCCM Intune Sync Issue with MDM Client Error 0x80072f0c Microsoft Endpoint Manager
SCCM Intune Sync Issue with MDM Client Error 0x80072f0c Microsoft Endpoint Manager

Once Alternate UPN Suffix is added to the forest, we can go back to Active Directory Users and Computers (DSA.MSC) and change the user (NAA) from the UPN drop-down menu. In this case, it was set to @DWPOC.local, and now I changed it to @dwpoc01outlook.onmicrosoft.com.  

SCCM CB User discovery component detected the changes in the AD user and ran the SCCM delta user discovery. Now you can see User_Principal_Name0 is populated correctly in the SCCM CB database.

However, the cloud ID value is not populated for the user NAA. It’s still set to NULL. Now how to get the CloudSerID in SCCM CB DB? Read on 🙂

SCCM Intune Sync Issue with MDM Client Error 0x80072f0c Microsoft Endpoint Manager
SCCM Intune Sync Issue with MDM Client Error 0x80072f0c Microsoft Endpoint Manager

We need to bounce back / restart the SMS executive thread called “SMS_CLOUD_USERSYNC”. How to restart SCCM Executive thread SMS_CLOUD_USERSYNC? This process has been explained in the post here.

Once I bounced back SMS_CLOUD_USERSYNC using the registry key, the following entries appeared in the cloudusersync.log file.

SCCM Intune Sync Issue with MDM Client Error 0x80072f0c Microsoft Endpoint Manager
SCCM Intune Sync Issue with MDM Client Error 0x80072f0c Microsoft Endpoint Manager

When you check the SCCM CB SQL DB, you can see that the cloud ID against the user NAA has been generated. See the screen capture below.  After the cloud ID and User Principal Name are populated correctly into SCCM DB, the AAD and MDM enrolment worked very well.

SCCM Intune Sync Issue with MDM Client Error 0x80072f0c Microsoft Endpoint Manager
SCCM Intune Sync Issue with MDM Client Error 0x80072f0c Microsoft Endpoint Manager

Some more sample log files on success sync! cloudusersync.log file

Length of all Added/Newly licensed Users thus far is 2~~ $<SMS_CLOUD_USERSYNC><07-07-2016 10:55:38.068-330><thread=2476 (0x9AC)>
In batch [0], Generating Udx for total [2] newly licensed records. [2] UPNs sent to intune for licensing.~~ $<SMS_CLOUD_USERSYNC><07-07-2016 10:55:38.068-330><thread=2476 (0x9AC)>
Write message to file C:\Program Files\Microsoft Configuration Manager\inboxes\hman.box\ForwardingMsg\___UDXugfk4buq.MCM~~ $<SMS_CLOUD_USERSYNC><07-07-2016 10:55:38.068-330><thread=2476 (0x9AC)>
Write message to file C:\Program Files\Microsoft Configuration Manager\inboxes\hman.box\ForwardingMsg\___UDX1phsq0ud.MCM~~ $<SMS_CLOUD_USERSYNC><07-07-2016 10:55:38.069-330><thread=2476 (0x9AC)>
UserDeltaSync:- Users Added = 2~~ $<SMS_CLOUD_USERSYNC><07-07-2016 10:55:38.069-330><thread=2476 (0x9AC)>
Last ItemKey retrieved : 2063597572~~ $<SMS_CLOUD_USERSYNC><07-07-2016 10:55:38.069-330><thread=2476 (0x9AC)>
UserDeltaSync - Fetching batches of Users to be licensed : batch [1] starting from ItemKey [2063597572]~~ $<SMS_CLOUD_USERSYNC><07-07-2016 10:55:38.069-330><thread=2476 (0x9AC)>
In this batch, total received users to add from SCCM = 0, total Successfully added users to Cloud = 0~~ $<SMS_CLOUD_USERSYNC><07-07-2016 10:55:38.071-330><thread=2476 (0x9AC)>
Length of all Added/Newly licensed Users thus far is 2~~ $<SMS_CLOUD_USERSYNC><07-07-2016 10:55:38.071-330><thread=2476 (0x9AC)>
In batch [1], no Udx messages generated for newly licensed users, however [0] UPNs sent to intune for licensing.~~ $<SMS_CLOUD_USERSYNC><07-07-2016 10:55:38.072-330><thread=2476 (0x9AC)>
A total of [2] users have been licensed.~~ $<SMS_CLOUD_USERSYNC><07-07-2016 10:55:38.072-330><thread=2476 (0x9AC)>
STATMSG: ID=10007 SEV=W LEV=M SOURCE="SMS Server" COMP="SMS_CLOUD_USERSYNC" SYS=CMCBTP.acn.local SITE=Z00 PID=1544 TID=2476 GMTDATE=Thu Jul 07 05:25:38.073 2016 ISTR0="" ISTR1="" ISTR2="" ISTR3="" ISTR4="" ISTR5="" ISTR6="" ISTR7="" ISTR8="" ISTR9="" NUMATTRS=0 $<SMS_CLOUD_USERSYNC><07-07-2016 10:55:38.073-330><thread=2476 (0x9AC)>
Reading SOFTWARE\Microsoft\SMS\Components\SMS_CLOUD_USERSYNC\:SQL Server Name from provider Registry~~ $<SMS_CLOUD_USERSYNC><07-07-2016 11:00:38.090-330><thread=2476 (0x9AC)>
Returning value CMCBTP.acn.local from provider Registry~~ $<SMS_CLOUD_USERSYNC><07-07-2016 11:00:38.090-330><thread=2476 (0x9AC)>
Reading SOFTWARE\Microsoft\SMS\Components\SMS_CLOUD_USERSYNC\:Database Name from provider Registry~~ $<SMS_CLOUD_USERSYNC><07-07-2016 11:00:38.090-330><thread=2476 (0x9AC)>
Returning value CM_Z00 from provider Registry~~ $<SMS_CLOUD_USERSYNC><07-07-2016 11:00:38.091-330><thread=2476 (0x9AC)>
Reading SOFTWARE\Microsoft\SMS\Identification:Server from provider Registry~~ $<SMS_CLOUD_USERSYNC><07-07-2016 11:00:38.091-330><thread=2476 (0x9AC)>
Returning value CMCBTP.acn.local from provider Registry~~ $<SMS_CLOUD_USERSYNC><07-07-2016 11:00:38.091-330><thread=2476 (0x9AC)>
HasIntuneSubscription: Site has valid Intune subscription.~~ $<SMS_CLOUD_USERSYNC><07-07-2016 11:00:38.091-330><thread=2476 (0x9AC)>
Reading SOFTWARE\Microsoft\SMS\Components\SMS_CLOUD_USERSYNC\:SQL Server Name from provider Registry~~ $<SMS_CLOUD_USERSYNC><07-07-2016 11:00:38.092-330><thread=2476 (0x9AC)>
Returning value CMCBTP.acn.local from provider Registry~~ $<SMS_CLOUD_USERSYNC><07-07-2016 11:00:38.092-330><thread=2476 (0x9AC)>
Reading SOFTWARE\Microsoft\SMS\Components\SMS_CLOUD_USERSYNC\:Database Name from provider Registry~~ $<SMS_CLOUD_USERSYNC><07-07-2016 11:00:38.092-330><thread=2476 (0x9AC)>

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Anoop is Microsoft MVP! He is a Solution Architect in enterprise client management with more than 20 years of experience (calculation done in 2021) in IT. He is a blogger, Speaker, and Local User Group HTMD Community leader. His main focus is on Device Management technologies like SCCM 2012, Current Branch, and Intune. E writes about ConfigMgr, Windows 11, Windows 10, Azure AD, Microsoft Intune, Windows 365, AVD, etc…

5 thoughts on “Fix Intune Sync Error 0x80072f0c Issue”

  1. Great post. I am having an issue similar to this, but everything is setup properly. The user are added to the appropriate InTune user collection, the UPN is correct as I verified that in the Office 365 Admin Portal (I use Exchange Online), licenses are assigned properly, the entries in the DB shows the appropriate UPN. I am running out of things to try. Any suggestions?

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  2. Hi Anoop,

    I am getting error in cloudusersync.log as Certmgr has not installed certificate yet,Sleep for 1 miniute.

    Request your help to resolve the issue.

    Reply

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