Situation – EMP Cloud Active Directory Sync Tool allows organizations using AD to import and/or synchronize users and functional accounts
Summary – See below article for information on:
About Active Directory
Active Directory is Microsoft’s cloud-based directory and identity management service.For more information please see: https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/desktop/ad/about-active-directory-domain-services
About EMP Cloud AD Sync Tool
EMP Cloud AD Sync Tool allows organizations using Active Directory to import and/or synchronize users and groups from Office 365 directly to their account.
Prerequisites
In order to configure Active Directory and EMP Cloud you will need the following:
You may need to open firewall ports to accept incoming LDAP requests. Please refer to Connection Details for a complete list of external IP addresses.
CONFIGURE EMP Cloud
A silent user will receive a quarantine digest report but will be unable to login to the user interface.
An end user will receive a quarantine digest report and will receive a welcome email from EMP Cloud to login to the user interface.
Active Directory Sync Summary
The Active Directory Sync summary page allows you to view all changes related to your current EMP Cloud account and your Active Directory account. You can use this summary page to:
Sync Exemption
You may need to identify a user or functional account to be exempt from sync.
For example: You may wish to convert a user account to a functional account in EMP Cloud. Yet, when you perform the sync, AD will force it back to a user account. You can choose to exempt these accounts from the sync process and therefore preserve the EMP Cloud setting.
Not properly exempting users/accounts could result in billing/licensing numbers being higher than expected
ADDING A USER ACCOUNT FOR EXEMPTION
The object will be removed from the selected table and be moved to Exempt from sync table. It will no longer be subject to AD changes.
REMOVING A USER ACCOUNT FROM EXEMPTION