Introduction

This appendix is intended for administrators who want to synchronize data from a generic LDAP format or from a file.

Generic LDAP enables you to query any LDAP-compliant system to return user, groups, and email data that can then be synchronized with the cloud service.

Alternatively, you can extract your LDAP data to a comma-separated variable (CSV) or plain text file, and use that file as the input to the synchronization process.

It is important that you review the data you are about to synchronize before you synchronize it. The Requirements section describes a number of issues that you must take into account before your first synchronization. See:

• Requirements
• Setting up the Directory Synchronization Client

In addition, Formats lists all of the LDAP elements that can be present in your input data, with examples.