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Active Directory (JNDI)

Active Directory (JNDI)

Overview

The Active Directory Connector supports provisioning to Windows servers 2003 / 2008 running Active Directory.

In order to have all the functionalities available with Windows server 2003 you have to raise functional level and forest functional level.

Please take a look at raise forest function level for more details.

This bundle is fully implemented in Java and makes use of JNDI to communicate to Active Directory, hence it does not require any additional module.

Installation

To install the Active Directory connector, add the bundle JAR file to a directory on your disk. If your application has a dedicated directory for connector bundles, put the file in that directory. For example, Apache Syncope looks for connector bundles in the configured bundles directory.

Supported Operations

The Active Directory connector supports the following operations:

  • Authentication

  • Create

  • Update

  • Delete

  • Get (read)

  • Schema (ask for schema)

  • Search

  • Sync

  • Test

  • Validate

Configuration

The following table lists all the configuration properties you can specify when setting up the Active Directory connector:

 

Configuration Property

Required

Type

Default Value

Description