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Active Directory to Nutshell integration — real-time, two-way sync

Keep Active Directory and Nutshell 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 Nutshell

Keep the people Nutshell and Active Directory both track in agreement in real time: the internal users who own records in Nutshell, and the customer login accounts in Active Directory.

A CRM and an identity system usually describe different populations. Nutshell 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 Nutshell are the same employees Active Directory provisions and disables, and when Active Directory also runs the login accounts for your product, the customers in Nutshell are the same users Active Directory authenticates. Left unconnected, a departure in Active Directory leaves stale ownership sitting in Nutshell, and a signup in Active Directory never reaches the account it belongs to.

Stacksync syncs Notes, Products, Tags, Users in Nutshell with Organizational contacts, Users, Groups, Group memberships 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 Sync Nutshell leads into a warehouse or Postgres so small B2B teams can report on pipeline without exports.
  • 02 Push closed-won leads to accounting software to trigger invoicing automatically.
  • 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

Deactivation and record hand-off

When someone is disabled in Active Directory, the matching user in Nutshell is deactivated too, and the accounts, contacts, and deals they owned are flagged for reassignment, so nothing goes unattended after they leave.

Where Active Directory runs customer login accounts: identity on the customer record

Signup, account status, multi-factor enrollment, and last-login from Active Directory land on the matching contact or account in Nutshell, so go-to-market teams see who has actually activated and who has gone dormant.

Group and entitlement membership as CRM fields

Membership of a directory group or an entitlement in Active Directory maps to fields in Nutshell, such as product tier, plan, or internal team, so segmentation reflects real access rather than a manual guess.

What you can sync between Active Directory and Nutshell

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 Nutshell objects How this pairing syncs
Users User accounts in Entra ID and on-prem AD DS; synced two-way to create, update attributes, and enable or disable accounts. Users Rep records used to resolve ownership when syncing assignments 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. Companies Account records that group people and leads for account-level syncs Organizational units is specific to Active Directory and Companies to Nutshell — 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. Activities Logged calls, meetings, and emails used for engagement reporting Organizational contacts is specific to Active Directory and Activities to Nutshell — 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. Tasks Rep to-dos mirrored into external work-management or reporting systems Groups is specific to Active Directory and Tasks to Nutshell — 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. Notes Free-text history attached to leads and contacts, replicated for a full timeline Group memberships is specific to Active Directory and Notes to Nutshell — 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. Products Line items attached to leads, used to sync sold products into billing Devices is specific to Active Directory and Products to Nutshell — each maps to any object or custom field on the other side.

How changes propagate between Active Directory and Nutshell

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 Nutshell 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 Nutshell through its API, with automatic retries and rate-limit backoff.

Nutshell Active Directory Sub-second propagation

DetectionNutshell notifies Stacksync of record changes through webhook events. Webhook subscriptions for record events, with polling as 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.
  • Nutshell: Subject to the platform's API rate limits.
What ships with Active Directory ⇄ Nutshell

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

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

Real-time

Two-way sync

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

No-code + pro-code

Workflow automation

Trigger automated workflows whenever Active Directory or Nutshell 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 Nutshell record.

Observability

Monitoring

Track your Active Directory ⇄ Nutshell 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 Nutshell.

How the Active Directory and Nutshell 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.

Nutshell

Integration surface
JSON-RPC API over HTTPS; a newer REST API is also offered
Authentication
HTTP Basic with account email and API key
Change detection
webhook subscriptions for record events, with polling as fallback
Capabilities
read · write · webhooks
Rate limits
subject to the platform's API rate limits
How it works

How to connect Active Directory to Nutshell — 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 Nutshell 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
    Nutshell connected
    OAuth 2.0
    SSH tunnel
    SSL certificate
    VPC peering
  2. 02

    Choose tables

    Pick the Active Directory and Nutshell 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 ⇄ Nutshell
    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 Nutshell
    Company company_name text
    Email email text
    Amount amount numeric
    Created created_at timestamp
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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

Securely connects to your systems with:

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

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