Real-time
Two-way sync
Changes in Active Directory or Quip instantly reflect in both systems. No stale data, no manual imports.
Security and identity ⇄ Business productivity
Active Directory to Quip integration — real-time, two-way sync
Keep Active Directory and Quip 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 Quip
Keep the users, groups, and profile details that Quip and Active Directory share consistent in real time, so who can work in Quip always matches who your directory in Active Directory says belongs there.
Active Directory is where a company records who its people are: their accounts, the groups and roles they hold, and the attributes attached to each one. Quip is where a slice of those same people do their work, as agents, members, or seats, and every one of them needs a matching account with the right access. When a directory and a productivity tool are maintained by hand, someone added, moved, or offboarded in one becomes a stale entry in the other within the hour.
Stacksync syncs Messages, Users, Blobs, Documents in Quip with Groups, Group memberships, Devices, Directory roles in Active Directory bi-directionally and in real time. A user created, renamed, moved between groups, or deactivated in either system updates the matching record in the other within seconds, with field-level mapping and conflict resolution in place of CSV uploads and nightly IT batch jobs.
That matters most at the edges of employment. When both systems agree on who has an account, which groups they belong to, and whether they are still active, granting access on day one and revoking it on the last day stops being a manual checklist that trails the directory.
Common use cases
- 01 Read Messages from project threads into a data store to analyze collaboration activity and comment volume per document.
- 02 Sync Folders and their membership with an identity or HR source so team spaces track org structure.
- 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
Provision access when someone joins
A user added to Active Directory, or moved into a group inside it, gets the matching account or membership created in Quip, so a new hire can start working without a separate setup ticket.
Close access when someone leaves
When a user is disabled or removed in Active Directory, their account in Quip is deactivated in step, so offboarding shuts down access everywhere instead of leaving a live login behind.
Keep profile attributes current
A person's name, email, department, manager, or phone number corrected in either system updates the other, so the productivity tool shows the same details the directory holds of record.
What you can sync between Active Directory and Quip
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 | Quip 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 Member records read individually or via contacts; get_authenticated_user identifies the token owner. Used read-only for directory-style syncs. | Same entity on both sides — records pair one-to-one and field-level changes reconcile in both directions. | |
| Group memberships Member and owner links between users and groups; membership add/remove changes are surfaced by delta query. | Documents Editable rich-text threads addressed by ID; created and updated over REST via HTML or Markdown sections, with an updated_usec timestamp used to detect edits. | Group memberships is specific to Active Directory and Documents to Quip — 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. | Spreadsheets Live-spreadsheet threads; rows and cells are read and written through add_to_spreadsheet and update_spreadsheet_row helpers on the same thread endpoints. | Devices is specific to Active Directory and Spreadsheets to Quip — each maps to any object or custom field on the other side. | |
| Directory roles Admin role assignments (directoryRole); read for access reviews and least-privilege governance. | Folders Private, Shared, and Group containers that organize threads; membership is added or removed via the folders endpoints for access control. | Directory roles is specific to Active Directory and Folders to Quip — 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. | Messages Comments and chat posts on a thread; the most recent are read with get_messages and new ones written with new_message. | Service principals & applications is specific to Active Directory and Messages to Quip — 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. | Blobs Images and file attachments stored per thread; downloaded with get_blob and uploaded with put_blob against a specific thread ID. | Organizational units is specific to Active Directory and Blobs to Quip — each maps to any object or custom field on the other side. |
How changes propagate between Active Directory and Quip
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 Quip 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 Quip through its API, with automatic retries and rate-limit backoff.
Quip Active Directory Interval-based propagation
DetectionStacksync polls Quip for changes on an incremental schedule, reading only records changed since the previous pass. Polling on thread updated_usec timestamps — get_recent_threads paginates by max_updated_usec.
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.
- Quip: Automation API allows roughly 50 requests per minute per access token; exceeding it returns HTTP 503, and responses carry X-RateLimit headers.
What ships with Active Directory ⇄ Quip
Connect Active Directory and Quip for flexible, real-time data sync.
Real-time sync, workflow automation, event queues, EDI, and monitoring, for every Active Directory–Quip connection.
No-code + pro-code
Workflow automation
Trigger automated workflows whenever Active Directory or Quip 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 Quip record.
Observability
Monitoring
Track your Active Directory ⇄ Quip 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 Quip.
How the Active Directory and Quip 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.
Quip
- Integration surface
- REST (v1 Automation API)
- Authentication
- OAuth 2.0 bearer tokens (RFC 6749/6750) or a Personal Access Token; domain admins can pre-approve apps for domain-wide authentication
- Change detection
- Polling on thread updated_usec timestamps — get_recent_threads paginates by max_updated_usec; there is no change-data-capture and no outbound change webhook
- Capabilities
- read · write
- Rate limits
- Automation API allows roughly 50 requests per minute per access token; exceeding it returns HTTP 503, and responses carry X-RateLimit headers
How it works
How to connect Active Directory to Quip — 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 Quip 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
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Quip
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Choose tables
Pick the Active Directory and Quip 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 ⇄ QuipCustomers 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 QuipCompany company_name textEmail email textAmount amount numericCreated created_at timestamp
FAQ
Active Directory and Quip integration FAQ
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Yes. Stacksync provides a managed, real-time two-way integration between Active Directory and Quip: authenticate both systems, choose the objects to sync (such as Active Directory's Users and Group memberships), map fields visually, and changes propagate both ways in milliseconds — no code required.
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Active Directory: 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. Quip: REST (v1 Automation API). Authentication: OAuth 2.0 bearer tokens (RFC 6749/6750) or a Personal Access Token; domain admins can pre-approve apps for domain-wide authentication. Stacksync manages authentication, retries, and rate limits on both sides.
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Quip: Documents and spreadsheets are both represented as threads; there is no separate object type, so sync logic keys everything on thread ID. Active Directory: Microsoft Graph delta tokens for directory objects expire after about seven days; a sync paused longer must reinitialize with a full read. Stacksync's field mapping accounts for these differences between Active Directory and Quip without custom code.
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Stacksync is SOC 2 Type II and ISO 27001 certified with HIPAA BAA support. Data is encrypted in transit, and a zero-persistent-storage architecture means Active Directory and Quip records are not retained after a sync operation.
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Stacksync pricing is usage-based and starts at $1,000/month, including the managed Active Directory and Quip connectors, real-time two-way sync, monitoring, and support. That replaces building and maintaining a custom Active Directory–Quip integration in-house.
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Yes — Stacksync ships production-grade connectors for both Active Directory and Quip. The connectors handle authentication, schema detection, rate limits, and retries; you configure the sync, and Stacksync operates it.
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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.
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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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