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Connect Active Directory to any app with two-way sync.

Two-way sync Active Directory across all your CRMs, databases, data warehouses, EDI systems, and AI tools, with custom workflows tailored to your data.

  • SOC 2 and 6 other compliance frameworks
  • POC with real engineers in minutes

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Object catalog

What Stacksync syncs in Active Directory.

These objects sync between Active Directory and any connected system, with field-level mapping and conflict resolution. Custom fields are picked up from the live schema where Active Directory exposes them.

Users
user accounts in Entra ID and on-prem AD DS; synced two-way to create, update attributes, and enable or disable accounts.
Groups
security and Microsoft 365 groups; synced two-way including name, type, and owner, with membership tracked separately.
Group memberships
member and owner links between users and groups; membership add/remove changes are surfaced by delta query.
Devices
registered and joined device objects; typically read into a database for inventory and compliance reporting.
Directory roles
admin role assignments (directoryRole); read for access reviews and least-privilege governance.
Service principals & applications
app registrations and enterprise apps; read-mostly for entitlement and license inventory.
Organizational units
on-prem AD DS containers (LDAP organizationalUnit) used to scope which users and groups a sync includes.
Organizational contacts
directory contact objects (orgContact); synced for shared address-book and CRM person records.
API surface

How Stacksync connects to Active Directory.

The connector runs on Active Directory's native API. Stacksync manages authentication, rate limits, retries, and schema changes so your team does not maintain integration code.

Connection
Microsoft Graph REST API (Entra ID / cloud) and LDAP/LDAPS (on-premises AD DS)
Authentication
OAuth 2.0 via the Microsoft identity platform — an app registration with application or delegated permissions (e.g. User.ReadWrite.All, Group.ReadWrite.All) and admin consent; on-prem AD DS uses a bound service account over LDAPS.
Change detection
Microsoft Graph delta query (change tracking) for Users and Groups, plus change-notification subscriptions (webhooks) for near-real-time triggers; on-prem AD DS uses the DirSync control and uSNChanged polling.
Rate limits
Graph throttles by resource-unit cost per app per tenant in 10-second windows (about 3,500–8,000 units by tenant size); directory delta tokens expire after ~7 days.

Sync directions

  • Read Supported
  • Write Supported
  • Change data capture Not available
  • Webhooks Supported
What ships with Active Directory

Connect Active Directory for flexible, real-time data sync.

Real-time sync, workflow automation, event queues, EDI, and monitoring, for every connection.

Real-time

Two-way sync

Changes in Active Directory instantly reflect across connected systems. No stale data, no manual imports.

No-code + pro-code

Workflow automation

Trigger automated workflows whenever Active Directory data changes, update records, fire webhooks, or kick off sequences without brittle API scripts.

At scale

Event queues

Handle millions of events per minute without losing a single Active Directory record.

Observability

Monitoring

Track your Active Directory sync health, view errors, and replay failed events in one click.

Trading partners

EDI

Transform legacy EDI complexity into simple database interactions.

Use cases

What teams run on the Active Directory connector.

Active Directory is the identity system of record for most Microsoft-centric enterprises, owned by IT and identity/access (IAM) teams and watched by security and compliance. Two forms exist: on-premises AD DS reached over LDAP, and cloud-based Microsoft Entra ID (formerly Azure AD) reached over the Microsoft Graph API. It holds the Users, Groups, memberships, Devices, and role assignments that gate access to email, SaaS apps, and internal systems, so nearly every provisioning and governance workflow reads from or writes back to it.

  • IT and IAM administrators
  • Security and compliance (GRC) teams
  • Identity / platform engineering
  • IT operations
  • HRIS admins
  1. Two-way sync Users and Groups between Microsoft Entra ID and an HRIS or Postgres so joiners, movers, and leavers provision and deprovision automatically.

  2. Write Users and group memberships into Entra ID from an HR system of record such as Workday or BambooHR to drive downstream application access.

  3. Read Users, Groups, and directoryRole assignments into a warehouse for periodic access reviews and SOC 2 audit evidence.

  4. Keep security-group memberships aligned with application entitlement tables so access reflects the right teams as they change.

  5. Read Devices and service principals into a database for identity, asset, and license inventory across the tenant.

  6. Two-way sync of Users and Groups between Microsoft Entra ID and an HR system of record so new hires, role changes, and departures provision and deprovision directory accounts and group memberships without manual admin work.

All Active Directory integrations

Pick the system you need to keep in sync with Active Directory. Each page covers the sync setup, field mapping, and common workflows for that pair.

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How it works

Set up Active Directory in minutes, without APIs.

Configure and sync within minutes, no code. Whether you sync 50k or 100M+ records, Stacksync handles the queues, infra, and plumbing. Integrations are non-invasive and need zero setup on your systems.

  1. 01

    Connect your apps

    Authenticate Active Directory with its native method — OAuth, API keys, or service accounts — plus secure options like SSH tunneling, IP whitelisting, and VPC peering.

    • OAuth 2.0
    • SSH tunnel
    • VPC peering
    Active Directory connected
    OAuth 2.0
    SSH tunnel
    SSL certificate
    VPC peering
  2. 02

    Choose tables

    Pick the Active Directory objects to sync — Stacksync auto-detects the schema, including custom fields where the platform exposes them. Sync to existing tables, or let Stacksync create new ones with ideal data types.

    • Standard objects
    • Custom objects
    • Auto-schema
    objects · Active Directory
    Customers 12,480
    Sales Orders 8,213
    Invoices 5,902
    Items 1,344
  3. 03

    Map fields

    Fields map automatically even when names and types differ. Stacksync handles transformation and type casting for you, zero configuration required.

    • Auto-map
    • Type casting
    • Transforms
    Active Directory database
    Company company_name text
    Email email text
    Amount amount numeric
    Created created_at timestamp

FAQ

Active Directory connector FAQ

What can I sync with the Active Directory connector?

Active Directory's core objects — Users, Groups, Group memberships, Devices and custom fields — can sync with any of 302 other systems. Every integration is real-time and bidirectional, with field-level mapping and conflict resolution.

How does Stacksync connect to Active Directory?

Via Microsoft Graph REST API (Entra ID / cloud) and LDAP/LDAPS (on-premises AD DS), authenticated with OAuth 2.0 via the Microsoft identity platform — an app registration with application or delegated permissions (e.g. User.ReadWrite.All, Group.ReadWrite.All) and admin consent; on-prem AD DS uses a bound service account over LDAPS.. Changes are detected as follows — microsoft Graph delta query (change tracking) for Users and Groups, plus change-notification subscriptions (webhooks) for near-real-time triggers; on-prem AD DS uses the DirSync control and uSNChanged polling.. Stacksync manages rate limits, retries, and schema changes automatically.

Is the Active Directory connector two-way?

Yes. Changes made in Active Directory propagate to the connected system and vice versa, in milliseconds. One-way flows are also supported when a direction should stay read-only.

How long does an Active Directory integration take to set up?

Most Active Directory integrations go live in minutes: authenticate Active Directory and the other system, pick objects and fields, and enable the sync. No code and no infrastructure to manage.

Is Active Directory data secure in transit?

Stacksync is SOC 2 Type II, ISO 27001, GDPR and HIPAA compliant. Active Directory data is encrypted in transit, and a zero-persistent-storage architecture means records are not retained after a sync operation.

SECURITY

Security teams trust Stacksync

As a data company, we understand the importance of keeping your data secure. Stacksync is built with security best practices to keep your data safe at every layer, and is DPF-certified for US, EU, UK and CH data transfers.

SOC 2 Type II
ISO 27001
HIPAA BAA
GDPR
CCPA
DPF US-EU-UK-CH
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SSO & SCIM

Let your users access Stacksync from your centralized user management systems. Works with Okta, Azure, Google SSO and more.

Alerts

Immediately get alerted about record syncing issues over email, Slack, PagerDuty and WhatsApp. Resolve issues from a centralized dashboard with retry and revert options.

Secure connection options

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