SharePoint AD Information Sync provides a short-cut to synchronize Active Directory information to SharePoint Lists based on profile synchronization.
SharePoint users are empowered to customize the Active Directory sync process by configuring Sync Profiles. The AD information that needs to be synchronized can be specified by Organizational Unit (OU) and LDAP query string. Meanwhile, specific items with common names provided are allowed to be excluded when configuring the AD sync settings. Moreover, SharePoint Info Sync has the capacity to allow for column mapping between AD fields and SharePoint list items. Lastly, except for being performed manually, AD sync also can be performed automatically as long as a schedule has been set beforehand.


Click here for documentation for the SharePoint 2010 version of AD Information Sync
SharePoint AD Information Sync provides a convenient Active Directory sync function to SharePoint lists.
Following is a complete AD sync operating guide of SharePoint AD Information Sync.
Before configuring AD Information Sync settings, please create contact lists to store the data imported by the Active Directory sync.
1. AD Information Sync entrance
Open the site where you want to insert information from AD-sync. Click Site Settings on Site Actions menu.

Then, click AD Information Sync Settings link on the Site Administration section in the Site Settings page to get into the AD Information Sync Settings page.

2. Profile configuration
On the AD information sync settings page, click Add Profile.

On the Add Profile page, specify the Profile Name and select the list which you want to point the AD sync to.
Note: The drop-down list displays all lists in the current site. Here we choose AD Management list.

In the Active Directory section, fill in domain name by clicking Get current domain button and type the username and password. Then click Test Connection button to check whether the current user is connecting with Active Directory.
Note: You can also input server name or IP address of the AD controller into the Domain Server text box manually.

In the Active Directory Info to Sync section, choose Preset Type first. Second, you can filter information by inputting LDAP query string. Third, you can select Sync by organizational unit box and click the organizational units in the OU structure chart of Active Directory.
Note: AD Information Sync support LDAP sentence to set Active Directory sync. If you have no Organizational Units, you can sync AD information by default setting or LDAP.

In the Sync Options section, click both checkboxes "Create list items when AD items created” and "Deleted list items when AD items deleted”.

In the Column Mapping section, select AD fields which you want to sync to the SharePoint list.
Note: AD Field drop-down list provides about 30 fields of User types and 11 fields of Computer types. What we select now is as following.
The content in brackets of AD Field is the common name of Active directory object. It is used in LDAP sentence.

In Sync Schedule section, specify the AD sync schedule type. In this tutorial, we set sync happens between 15:00 and 15:15 daily.

Note: Sync manually means the Active Directory sync will be acting by clicking Sync Now button manually on the sync settings page..
Sync every n minutes means that the interval of AD sync automatic action is n minutes.
Sync hourly means sync the information from Active Directory to list automatically each hour.
After configuration, click OK.
The followed "AD Management” SharePoint list is the result of our above AD sync settings.

AD Information Sync needs a special setup in the SharePoint Application Management after installation of the product.
Open the SharePoint 3.0 Central Administration. After that click Application Management on the top navigation bar. Then, in the SharePoint Web Application Management section, click Manage Web Application Features.

In the Manage Web Application Features page, click the "Activate" button of SharePoint AD Information Sync Timer Job.

Note: Change the Web Application to which you want to apply AD Information Sync (the box in the top right corner of the screen).
Then, click Operations on the top navigation bar. In the Global Configuration section, click Timer job definitions.
SharePointBoost AD Information Sync Job is located on this page.

To check the timer job running status, click Operations on the top navigation bar, and then Timer job status in the Global Configuration section.

After this, please proceed with the activation as described in the General Installation Guide.
3. LDAP sentence
LDAP is the Lightweight Directory Access Protocol. AD Information Sync access and get the Active Directory information through LADP protocol.
Suppose that you want to sync a user’s information who works for marketing department and his title is manager. You should write the LDAP sentence as following:

After the AD synchronization, the items displays in the Manager List as following.

4. Items Exclusion
Common name is the unique identifier of the object in Active Directory. AD Information Sync use common name (cn) to exclude items.
The items whose common name listed in the textbox will not be synced to the list.
Suppose that you want to sync the users’ information in the organizational unit Development to Development List, except the items whose common name is Anna Wong.
Configure the profile according to above steps. Then in the Exclusion Items section, type Anna Wong in the box.

Click OK to save the settings.
And click "Sync Now" on the main settings page. The result is as following and the information of Anna Wong is not added on the list.


Support Languages: English, Chinese, Japanese.
System Requirements
| Operating System: |
Microsoft Windows Server 2003 x86/x64 Microsoft Windows Server 2008 x86/x64 |
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| Server: |
SharePoint Release: - Microsoft Windows SharePoint Services v3 or Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 - Microsoft .NETs Framework 2.0 or 3.0 Note: This product is not compatible with SPS 2003 and WSS v2 |
| Browser: | Microsoft Internet Explorer 6 or greater is recommended for Advanced Administration features |
Release Notes
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1.7.622.0 Jul 6th, 2010 |
New Feature: - Server License is available. |
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1.6.312.0 Mar 15th, 2010 |
New Feature: - Announced compatibility with SharePoint 2010. |
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1.6.107.0 Jan 11st, 2010 |
Licensing module upgraded. |
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1.5.820.0 Aug 21st, 2009 |
Licensing module upgraded. |
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1.5.609.0 Jun 10th, 2009 |
New Feature: - Support Japanese. |
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1.5.520.0 May 22nd, 2009 |
Licensing module upgraded. |
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1.4.327.1 Mar 27th, 2009 |
Bug Fixed: - AD Contacts can be synchronized to SharePoint List. |
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1.3.313.1 Mar 13rd, 2009 |
New Feature: - Allow users to synchronize thumbnail photos from AD to Lists: thumbnail photos will be uploaded as attachments and their URLs can be set as field values. - Add employee ID attribute. |
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1.2.204.0 Feb 5th, 2009 |
Bug Fixed: - Allow another 9 AD properties to be sync: IP phone; Pager; URL; Facsimile Telephone Number, Home Phone, IP Phone, Mobile, Pager, and Telephone in "others". |
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1.1.119.0 Jan 21st, 2009 |
Bug Fixed: - Improve performance in timer job. |
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1.0.1226.0 Jan 6th, 2009 |
Initial Release |
Purchase FAQ
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