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LDAPSync - Quick Help

LDAPSync allows you to quickly and easily synchronize any LDAP Directory servers.

This quick help guide supports you in configuring the basic parameters.

About LDAPSync

LDAPSync is a light weight LDAP directory synchronization tool. It allows easy and quick setup and configuration with detailed control of the synchronization process. It is ideal for any kind of synchronization needs, like global addresslist (GAL) synchronization, Active Directory synchronization, ...

Version 1.0

Released 01.04.2011

Case Study - Using ADAM and ADSynch Light

One LDAP directory? We got more than one!

Summary

Whether it is for currently ongoing projects, whether for legacy systems, proprietary software, migration scenarios or maybe just because there are connected divisions running their own systems - the reasons for running more than one LDAP based directory are divers.

And then? Data is copied or entered manually, often using non documented processes. When not being performed regularly, data will become inconsistent. Also, the maintenance of more than one user details and account credentials often can become a nightmare security wise and for the added support weight, like when changing communication details or passwords.

One of the excelling properties of Windows Active Directory in Application Mode is its integration into the Windows Back Office framework and with its added functionality to add single sign on capabilities even for legacy applications and to become completely transparent towards these, it is the ideally suited LDAP directory that unifies the burden in keeping more than one directory data store.

Case Study - First Data uses ADSynch Light for GAL Synchronization

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First Data employ ADSynch Light (the predecessor of LDAPSync).

When the Gesellschaft für Zahlungssysteme (GZS) was acquired by First Data International, there suddenly were multiple Exchange Messaging Sites from different subsidiaries present and the need for transparent internal communication eminent. Also, messaging routing was about to be changed so all employees could be reached using one mail target domain. After testing different solutions available on the market, the complexity and limitation of these became apparent.