Skip to content
Security and identity ⇄ ERP

Active Directory to Microsoft Dynamics NAV integration — real-time, two-way sync

Keep Active Directory and Microsoft Dynamics NAV in sync without custom scripts. Cut weeks of integration work, eliminate silent data drift, and give your team a single, reliable source of truth.

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

Adopted by fast-scaling companies moving mission-critical data in real time

Case study
Migrated from MuleSoft
Case study
Migrated from Celigo
Migrated from Heroku Connect
Migrated from Matillion
Case study
Migrated from Fivetran
Case study
Migrated from Celigo
Why teams connect Active Directory and Microsoft Dynamics NAV

Keep the employee, group, and account records that Microsoft Dynamics NAV and Active Directory share aligned in real time, so a person added, moved, or offboarded in one system shows up correctly in the other within seconds.

An ERP and an identity system describe the same workforce from two angles. Microsoft Dynamics NAV holds the authoritative record of who works at the company, and often their department, title, manager, and cost center. Active Directory controls the accounts, groups, and access those same people use every day. When the two aren't connected, every hire, transfer, and departure has to be keyed twice, and the window between someone leaving in Microsoft Dynamics NAV and their account still being active in Active Directory is a real security exposure.

Stacksync syncs Sales Orders & Invoices, Purchase Orders, G/L Entries, Item Ledger Entries in Microsoft Dynamics NAV with Devices, Directory roles, Service principals & applications, Organizational units in Active Directory in real time, with field-level mapping and conflict resolution in place of CSV exports and nightly jobs. A new hire, a department change, or a termination propagates within seconds, and where you want changes to flow both ways — the ERP's org data into the directory, account status back into the ERP — the same mapping handles it.

That matters most at offboarding and audit time. When the directory reflects the ERP's current headcount and org structure, disabling access no longer depends on someone remembering to update a second system, and access reviews start from a roster both sides already agree on.

Common use cases

  • 01 Run parallel sync during a NAV-to-Business Central migration so both systems stay usable.
  • 02 Sync customers, items, and orders between NAV and a CRM in both directions.
  • 03 Read Devices and service principals into a database for identity, asset, and license inventory across the tenant.
  • 04 Two-way sync Users and Groups between Microsoft Entra ID and an HRIS or Postgres so joiners, movers, and leavers provision and deprovision automatically.

Common sync patterns

Disable access at offboarding

When a person is marked terminated or inactive in one system, the matching account is disabled in the other within seconds, closing the gap that leaves ex-employees with live access.

Keep profile attributes current

A name, email, title, manager, or department corrected in either system updates the other, so directory entries and employee records don't drift apart.

Align group and department membership

When someone changes team or department, their group or organizational-unit membership updates to match, keeping access tied to their current role.

What you can sync between Active Directory and Microsoft Dynamics NAV

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 Microsoft Dynamics NAV objects How this pairing syncs
Directory roles Admin role assignments (directoryRole); read for access reviews and least-privilege governance. Vendors Vendor cards aligned with procurement and AP tools. Directory roles is specific to Active Directory and Vendors to Microsoft Dynamics NAV — each maps to any object or custom field on the other side.
Service principals & applications App registrations and enterprise apps; read-mostly for entitlement and license inventory. Items Item cards and availability mirrored to ecommerce and planning systems. Service principals & applications is specific to Active Directory and Items to Microsoft Dynamics NAV — each maps to any object or custom field on the other side.
Organizational units On-prem AD DS containers (LDAP organizationalUnit) used to scope which users and groups a sync includes. Sales Orders & Invoices Sales documents created from external orders and read back for posting status. Organizational units is specific to Active Directory and Sales Orders & Invoices to Microsoft Dynamics NAV — 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. Purchase Orders Purchasing documents reconciled with receiving and vendor systems. Organizational contacts is specific to Active Directory and Purchase Orders to Microsoft Dynamics NAV — each maps to any object or custom field on the other side.
Users User accounts in Entra ID and on-prem AD DS; synced two-way to create, update attributes, and enable or disable accounts. G/L Entries Posted ledger entries replicated to warehouses for finance reporting. Users is specific to Active Directory and G/L Entries to Microsoft Dynamics NAV — 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. Item Ledger Entries Inventory movement history read for stock and costing analytics. Groups is specific to Active Directory and Item Ledger Entries to Microsoft Dynamics NAV — each maps to any object or custom field on the other side.

How changes propagate between Active Directory and Microsoft Dynamics NAV

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 Microsoft Dynamics NAV 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 applied to Microsoft Dynamics NAV as a row-level write, with types converted between the two schemas.

Microsoft Dynamics NAV Active Directory Sub-second propagation

DetectionChanges in Microsoft Dynamics NAV are captured at the source via change data capture — no polling loop against its API. Polling on modified/timestamp fields, or SQL Server change tracking/CDC on on-premises databases.

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.
What ships with Active Directory ⇄ Microsoft Dynamics NAV

Connect Active Directory and Microsoft Dynamics NAV for flexible, real-time data sync.

Real-time sync, workflow automation, event queues, EDI, and monitoring, for every Active Directory–Microsoft Dynamics NAV connection.

Real-time

Two-way sync

Changes in Active Directory or Microsoft Dynamics NAV instantly reflect in both systems. No stale data, no manual imports.

No-code + pro-code

Workflow automation

Trigger automated workflows whenever Active Directory or Microsoft Dynamics NAV 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 Microsoft Dynamics NAV record.

Observability

Monitoring

Track your Active Directory ⇄ Microsoft Dynamics NAV 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 Microsoft Dynamics NAV.

How the Active Directory and Microsoft Dynamics NAV 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.

Microsoft Dynamics NAV

Integration surface
SOAP and OData web services published from NAV pages and codeunits; direct SQL Server access on-premises
Authentication
Windows authentication or NavUserPassword credentials
Change detection
Polling on modified/timestamp fields, or SQL Server change tracking/CDC on on-premises databases; no native webhooks
Capabilities
read · write · CDC
How it works

How to connect Active Directory to Microsoft Dynamics NAV — 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.

  1. 01

    Connect your apps

    Authenticate Active Directory and Microsoft Dynamics NAV with each platform's 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
    Microsoft Dynamics NAV connected
    OAuth 2.0
    SSH tunnel
    SSL certificate
    VPC peering
  2. 02

    Choose tables

    Pick the Active Directory and Microsoft Dynamics NAV 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.

    • Standard objects
    • Custom objects
    • Auto-schema
    objects · Active Directory ⇄ Microsoft Dynamics NAV
    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 Microsoft Dynamics NAV
    Company company_name text
    Email email text
    Amount amount numeric
    Created created_at timestamp
Try interactive demo
FAQ

Active Directory and Microsoft Dynamics NAV integration FAQ

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.

Learn more about security
SOC 2 Type II
ISO 27001
HIPAA BAA
GDPR
CCPA
DPF US-EU-UK-CH
→ SECURITY WITH BENEFITS

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

Securely connects to your systems with:

OAuth 2 SSH Tunnelling SSL certificates IP Whitelisting VPN gateway VPC peering and more

Related integrations

Every pair below is a real-time, two-way sync. Search all 502 integrations available for Active Directory and Microsoft Dynamics NAV.

Popular · 8 of 502
All Active Directory integrations All Microsoft Dynamics NAV integrations Browse all integrations
Coworkers laughing in front of a laptop in a casual office setting

Your last integration took months.
Your next one takes a prompt.

Book a demo Tour the platform on your own