Introduction

Install the Directory Synchronization Client on a Windows machine with:

Internal network access to your directory system via LDAP (Lightweight Directory Access Protocol), or network access to your cloud-based directory service.
External network access to the cloud service via HTTPS.

This access may be via a proxy server, as described in your Getting Started Guide.

The Directory Synchronization Client builds a local database to track changes to your source data. Use a single instance of the client to synchronize any given set of source data. Using multiple synchronization configurations, or even using multiple installations of the client, can cause data on the cloud service to be overwritten.