Synchronizing Users with Active Directory Overview
Note: The information in this section assumes that you have a working knowledge of Active Directory and how it is setup and defined at your company.
If your company uses Microsoft's Active Directory for user authentication and administration, you can synchronize the user accounts defined in Accolade to those defined in your Active Directory server. Synchronizing the user data between your Active Directory and Accolade allows you to maintain user data such as email addresses and user names in the Active Directory without having to maintain the information in multiple locations. If you disable users in the Active Directory those users are deactivated within Accolade when the synchronization runs. However, you cannot activate users in Accolade using Active Directory.
Synchronize additional data from your Active Directory users to user accounts in Accolade using extended fields.
A service runs once an hour to synchronize the data from Active Directory to Accolade.
Example
If an employee changes their name or their login information changes, if you synchronize user data with Active Directory, you need only to make the changes within Active directory. An Accolade service runs in the background that keeps the information synchronized with the user information mapped in Accolade.
In addition, when you create user accounts in Accolade, you can search Active Directory for users and pull the user information directly from Active Directory into the user profile within Accolade.
After the Active Directory Enabled parameter is set in the Administration Console, see the following to get started: