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Jdg50
Jdg50

Reputation: 448

Azure AD Sync Could not Load File

I'm having a really weird issue. I'm unable to import the Azure AD Sync module. Here's what I've tried:

  1. Import-Module ADSync

  2. Import-Module "C:\Program Files\Microsoft Azure AD Sync\Bin\ADSync\ADSync.psd1"

I'm getting the following error:

Import-module : Could not load file or assembly 'file:///C:\Program Files\Microsoft Azure AD Sync\Bin\Microsoft.Azure.ActiveDirectory.Synchronization.ProvisioningWebServiceAdapter.dll' or one of its dependencies. An attempt was made to load a program with an incorrect format. At line:1 char:1 + Import-module adsync + ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ + CategoryInfo : InvalidOperation: (:) [Import-Module], BadImageFormatException + FullyQualifiedErrorId : FormatXmlUpdateException,Microsoft.PowerShell.Commands.ImportModuleCommand

I'm running under the following premise:

  1. Azure AD Connect 1.2.70
  2. Powershell 4.0
  3. Windows Server 2012R2

The account I'm using is a Domain Admin and should have full permissions. I'm RDPing into the server. I'm also running Powershell as an Administrator. I've checked all installations and frameworks and they are either up to date or not applicable. AD sync is running just fine, I'm just trying to get the powershell CMDlets to work so that I can add them to a script I'm writing.

UPDATE: See below answers for solution. Reinstalling AAD was the solution.

Upvotes: 0

Views: 9006

Answers (2)

RCShoemaker
RCShoemaker

Reputation: 36

For anyone else running into this, I found the issue to be when running the (x86) version of powershell is not compatible with the ADSync module. Check your shortcuts that you're using to open powershell. You can use the command

[Environment]::Is64BitProcess

to check if you're running a 64 bit version of Powershell. If it returns false, ADSync commands won't work.

example of 32 bit powershell being incompatible

Upvotes: 2

bharathn-msft
bharathn-msft

Reputation: 972

Was able to import the module using below command, please try it out.

Import-Module –Name "C:\Program Files\Microsoft Azure AD Sync\Bin\ADSync" -Verbose

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Additional Documentation Reference for:

Hope this helps.

Upvotes: 1

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