Every Synchronization User List (SUL) contains two definitions — one to identify which Directory Server users to synchronize and the other to identify which Windows users to synchronize.
Each definition identifies which users in a directory to synchronize, which users to exclude from synchronization, and where to create new users.
The objectclasses you select using the Identity Synchronization for Windows Console also determine which users will be synchronized. The program synchronizes only those users that have the selected objectclass, which includes any users that have a subclass of the selected objectclass.
For example, if you select the organizationalPerson objectclass, then Identity Synchronization for Windows will synchronize users with the inetorgperson objectclass because it is a subclass of the organizationalPerson objectclass.
Understanding Synchronization User List Definitions describes the components of an SUL definition:
Table D–1 SUL Definition Components
To synchronize users in a Sun Java System Directory Server with multiple Active Directory domains, you must define at least one SUL for each Active Directory domain.
When Group Synchronization is enabled, the following are important:
The creation expression supported at Active Directory is cn=%cn%.
The creation expression must contain valid attribute names belonging to the group objectclass since the creation expression is common to both user as well as group.
For example:
The attribute sn is not part of the groupofuniquenames objectclass at the Directory Server. Hence the following creation expression would be invalid for a group object. (Though it would work fine for user.)
cn=%cn%.%sn% |
The attribute used in the creation expression must be provided with a value for every user/group entry created. If the value is not provided then the user/group object will not synchronize and an appropriate message will be logged in the central log.
When you define multiple SULs, Identity Synchronization for Windows determines membership in an SUL by iteratively matching each SUL definition. The program examines the SUL definitions with more-specific base DNs first. For example, the program tests a match against ou=sales,dc=example,dc=com before testing dc=example,dc=com.
If two SUL definitions have the same base DN and different filters, then Identity Synchronization for Windows cannot determine automatically which filter should be tested first, so you must use the Resolve Domain Overlap feature to order the two SUL definitions. If a user matches the base DN of an SUL definition but does not match any filters for that base DN, then the program will exclude that user from synchronization — even if that user matches the filter for a less-specific base DN.