Real-time
Two-way sync
Changes in Active Directory or Attio instantly reflect in both systems. No stale data, no manual imports.
Security and identity ⇄ CRM
Active Directory to Attio integration — real-time, two-way sync
Keep Active Directory and Attio in sync without custom scripts. Cut weeks of integration work, eliminate silent data drift, and give your team a single, reliable source of truth.
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Why teams connect Active Directory and Attio
Keep the people Attio and Active Directory both track in agreement in real time: the internal users who own records in Attio, and the customer login accounts in Active Directory.
A CRM and an identity system usually describe different populations. Attio tracks customers, contacts, and the deals in motion; Active Directory governs who is allowed to sign in and what they can reach. Where the two meet is people. The reps who own records in Attio are the same employees Active Directory provisions and disables, and when Active Directory also runs the login accounts for your product, the customers in Attio are the same users Active Directory authenticates. Left unconnected, a departure in Active Directory leaves stale ownership sitting in Attio, and a signup in Active Directory never reaches the account it belongs to.
Stacksync syncs Custom objects, People, Companies, Users in Attio with Group memberships, Devices, Directory roles, Service principals & applications in Active Directory in real time and in both directions, matching on email or an external ID and mapping field by field. You decide which system owns which fields, and new users, role and group changes, deactivations, and account status move within seconds instead of waiting on a quarterly access review or a manual export.
Common use cases
- 01 Run a two-way dual-run when migrating to Attio from another CRM.
- 02 Sync companies, people, and deals with Postgres so ops teams enrich and update CRM records with SQL.
- 03 Two-way sync Users and Groups between Microsoft Entra ID and an HRIS or Postgres so joiners, movers, and leavers provision and deprovision automatically.
- 04 Read Users, Groups, and directoryRole assignments into a warehouse for periodic access reviews and SOC 2 audit evidence.
Common sync patterns
Group and entitlement membership as CRM fields
Membership of a directory group or an entitlement in Active Directory maps to fields in Attio, such as product tier, plan, or internal team, so segmentation reflects real access rather than a manual guess.
Where a closed deal should provision access: Attio drives Active Directory
A won or activated customer in Attio can create or update the corresponding user or account in Active Directory, so provisioning starts from the CRM record instead of a separate ticket.
Where Active Directory governs your workforce: CRM users kept current
New employees in Active Directory become active users in Attio with the right role, and group or department changes update their access and team, so the CRM's user list matches the directory without an admin re-keying it.
What you can sync between Active Directory and Attio
Representative objects on each side — any object or custom field can map to any target. Schemas are auto-detected; types are converted between the two systems.
| Active Directory objects | Attio objects | How this pairing syncs | |
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| Users User accounts in Entra ID and on-prem AD DS; synced two-way to create, update attributes, and enable or disable accounts. | Users Synced with incremental and full sync per the Stacksync docs. | Same entity on both sides — records pair one-to-one and field-level changes reconcile in both directions. | |
| Organizational units On-prem AD DS containers (LDAP organizationalUnit) used to scope which users and groups a sync includes. | Workspaces Synced with incremental and full sync per the Stacksync docs. | Organizational units is specific to Active Directory and Workspaces to Attio — each maps to any object or custom field on the other side. | |
| Organizational contacts Directory contact objects (orgContact); synced for shared address-book and CRM person records. | Custom objects Workspace-defined objects that behave like standard ones in the API. | Organizational contacts is specific to Active Directory and Custom objects to Attio — each maps to any object or custom field on the other side. | |
| Groups Security and Microsoft 365 groups; synced two-way including name, type, and owner, with membership tracked separately. | People Standard person object; synced with marketing tools and warehouse person tables. | Groups is specific to Active Directory and People to Attio — each maps to any object or custom field on the other side. | |
| Group memberships Member and owner links between users and groups; membership add/remove changes are surfaced by delta query. | Companies Standard company object; matched to billing and product accounts in two-way syncs. | Group memberships is specific to Active Directory and Companies to Attio — each maps to any object or custom field on the other side. | |
| Devices Registered and joined device objects; typically read into a database for inventory and compliance reporting. | Deals Pipeline records; read out for revenue reporting and written to from automation. | Devices is specific to Active Directory and Deals to Attio — each maps to any object or custom field on the other side. |
How changes propagate between Active Directory and Attio
Each direction of the sync is driven by what the source system can signal and what the destination accepts — detection, delivery, and expected latency below.
Active Directory Attio Sub-second propagation
DetectionActive Directory notifies Stacksync of record changes through webhook events. Microsoft Graph delta query (change tracking) for Users and Groups, plus change-notification subscriptions (webhooks) for near-real-time triggers.
DeliveryEach detected change is written to Attio through its API, with automatic retries and rate-limit backoff.
Attio Active Directory Sub-second propagation
DetectionAttio notifies Stacksync of record changes through webhook events. Webhooks on record and list-entry events, with polling as a fallback.
DeliveryEach detected change is written to Active Directory through its API, with automatic retries and rate-limit backoff.
Rate-limit considerations
- Active Directory: 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.
- Attio: Subject to the platform's published API rate limits.
What ships with Active Directory ⇄ Attio
Connect Active Directory and Attio for flexible, real-time data sync.
Real-time sync, workflow automation, event queues, EDI, and monitoring, for every Active Directory–Attio connection.
No-code + pro-code
Workflow automation
Trigger automated workflows whenever Active Directory or Attio 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 or Attio record.
Observability
Monitoring
Track your Active Directory ⇄ Attio sync health, view errors, and replay failed events in one click.
Trading partners
EDI
Transform legacy EDI complexity into simple database interactions between Active Directory and Attio.
How the Active Directory and Attio connectors work
Active Directory
- Integration surface
- 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.
- Capabilities
- read · write · webhooks
- 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.
Attio
- Integration surface
- REST API
- Authentication
- Guided in-app connection ("Attio CRM" connection created in a few clicks, "without any coding required"); the docs do not name the underlying auth mechanism (OAuth vs API key)
- Change detection
- Webhooks on record and list-entry events, with polling as a fallback
- Capabilities
- read · write · webhooks
- Rate limits
- Subject to the platform's published API rate limits.
How it works
How to connect Active Directory to Attio — three steps, no code
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.
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Connect your apps
Authenticate Active Directory and Attio with each platform's native method — OAuth, API keys, or service accounts — plus secure options like SSH tunneling, IP whitelisting, and VPC peering.
Active Directory
connected
Attio
connected
OAuth 2.0SSH tunnelSSL certificateVPC peering - 02
Choose tables
Pick the Active Directory and Attio objects to sync — Stacksync auto-detects both schemas, including custom fields where the platform exposes them. Sync to existing tables, or let Stacksync create new ones with ideal data types.
objects · Active Directory ⇄ AttioCustomers 12,480Sales Orders 8,213Invoices 5,902Items 1,344 - 03
Map fields
Fields map automatically even when names and types differ. Stacksync handles transformation and type casting for you, zero configuration required.
Active Directory AttioCompany company_name textEmail email textAmount amount numericCreated created_at timestamp
FAQ
Active Directory and Attio integration FAQ
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Yes. Stacksync provides a managed, real-time two-way integration between Active Directory and Attio: authenticate both systems, choose the objects to sync (such as Active Directory's Users and Organizational units), map fields visually, and changes propagate both ways in milliseconds — no code required.
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Yes — Stacksync ships production-grade connectors for both Active Directory and Attio. The connectors handle authentication, schema detection, rate limits, and retries; you configure the sync, and Stacksync operates it.
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Change detection on Active Directory: 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. On Attio: Webhooks on record and list-entry events, with polling as a fallback. Each detected change propagates to the other side in milliseconds, with field-level conflict resolution and an inspectable event log.
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On the Attio side: Custom objects, People, Companies, Users, plus custom fields where Attio exposes them. On the Active Directory side: Group memberships, Devices, Directory roles, Service principals & applications. Stacksync auto-detects both schemas and converts types between the two systems.
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Yes. Each object mapping can be bidirectional or restricted to a single direction (both systems accept writes). Read-only mirrors, one-way pushes, and full two-way sync can be mixed in the same integration.
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Common patterns for Active Directory and Attio: Group and entitlement membership as CRM fields; Where a closed deal should provision access: Attio drives Active Directory; Where Active Directory governs your workforce: CRM users kept current. Membership of a directory group or an entitlement in Active Directory maps to fields in Attio, such as product tier, plan, or internal team, so segmentation reflects real access rather than a manual guess.
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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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