Directory Sync
Directory Sync allows you to sync people and group data from an external LDAP directory into the Domino® directory. Currently data from Active Directory can be synced.
Directory Sync makes it easy for your HCL Domino® users to address mail to and see details about users in your organization who do not use Notes® such as Microsoft™ Outlook users registered in Active Directory. With this feature, Active Directory users automatically have Person documents in the Domino® directory so that Notes® users can find their addresses and other information. Without Dirsync, Notes® users must know the addresses of the Active Directory users before they can send mail to them, unless Person documents are added for them manually.
A task called Dirsync synchronizes fields that you specify from Active Directory to the Domino® directory. The content of the fields is always controlled through Active Directory.
A hidden GUID field in a Domino® directory Person document links it to a unique record in Active Directory.
- LDAP directory assistance document created in a directory assistance database that is enabled for Directory Sync. A Domino® server uses this document to connect to the Active Directory server for syncing.
- Directory Sync Configuration document created in the Directory Sync view of the Domino® directory. This document controls which Active Directory fields to sync to Domino® as well as other options.
- A server task, Dirsync, that runs only on the Domino® administration server, that connects to the Active Directory server regularly to pull person and group changes into the Domino® directory.
- The ability to register Active Directory users in Domino®.
- The ability for administrators to rename registered Domino® users when their names change in Active Directory. When a user's common name in Active Directory changes, an administration process request, Rename Common Name is created. Administrators approve the request to initiate a standard administration process rename request.