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Azure Active Directory to Azure Synapse Analytics integration — real-time, two-way sync

Keep Azure Active Directory and Azure Synapse Analytics 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 Azure Active Directory and Azure Synapse Analytics

Land the users, groups, and access events from Azure Active Directory in Azure Synapse Analytics continuously for security analytics, and write computed results back — without building or maintaining a pipeline.

Azure Active Directory is the record of who exists and what they can reach; Azure Synapse Analytics is where the business measures everything else. The two overlap on people and their access — the same users, groups, roles, and events that Azure Active Directory governs are what security, compliance, and analytics teams want to query in Azure Synapse Analytics. Getting them there usually means a brittle export that runs overnight and hands auditors a snapshot that is already out of date.

Stacksync syncs Directory roles, Devices, Users, Groups from Azure Active Directory into tables in Azure Synapse Analytics in real time, and the connection works in both directions: values computed in Azure Synapse Analytics, such as risk scores or access-review decisions, can be written back to attributes in Azure Active Directory where the identity team acts on them. Schema changes are handled, API limits are managed, and the sync is something you configure rather than a pipeline you keep alive.

Common use cases

  • 01 Load CRM and ERP records into Synapse dedicated SQL pool tables for enterprise reporting.
  • 02 Publish warehouse aggregates (account health scores, LTV) from Synapse back into operational tools like a CRM.
  • 03 Replicate Groups and their Members into a Postgres warehouse for access reviews and entitlement reporting.
  • 04 Mirror Applications and Service principals into a database or CMDB to track app ownership and credential expiry.

Common sync patterns

Queryable history for audit and compliance

A continuously synced copy in Azure Synapse Analytics gives you a durable, queryable record of identity and access state for access reviews, SOC 2, and audit questions.

Risk and review results back on the account

Risk scores, anomaly flags, or access-review outcomes computed in Azure Synapse Analytics write back to attributes on the matching user in Azure Active Directory, where the identity team can act on them.

Directory data in the warehouse, minus the pipeline

Users, groups, and roles from Azure Active Directory arrive in Azure Synapse Analytics as queryable tables, current within seconds instead of a nightly directory export.

What you can sync between Azure Active Directory and Azure Synapse Analytics

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.

Azure Active Directory objects Azure Synapse Analytics objects How this pairing syncs
Devices /devices registered or joined to the tenant; typically read-only into asset and security databases. External tables Tables over files in the data lake, queried through serverless SQL and often read-only in syncs. Devices is specific to Azure Active Directory and External tables to Azure Synapse Analytics — each maps to any object or custom field on the other side.
Users /users in Microsoft Graph; synced two-way — profile attributes, accountEnabled, and assignedLicenses are read out while provisioning writes (create, update, disable, delete) are pushed back. Views Curated projections used when downstream tools should not read base tables directly. Users is specific to Azure Active Directory and Views to Azure Synapse Analytics — each maps to any object or custom field on the other side.
Groups /groups covering security and Microsoft 365 groups; created, updated, and deleted through Graph, and read into warehouses for entitlement reporting. Schemas Namespaces that separate staging, integration, and presentation layers. Groups is specific to Azure Active Directory and Schemas to Azure Synapse Analytics — each maps to any object or custom field on the other side.
Group memberships Member and owner relationships on /groups/{id}/members; added and removed via the $ref endpoint and tracked for changes with delta query on $select=members. Materialized views Precomputed aggregates that speed reads of frequently synced result sets. Group memberships is specific to Azure Active Directory and Materialized views to Azure Synapse Analytics — each maps to any object or custom field on the other side.
Applications App registrations under /applications; usually read into a database or CMDB for app ownership and credential-expiry tracking. SQL pools Dedicated or serverless compute contexts that determine how and where queries run. Applications is specific to Azure Active Directory and SQL pools to Azure Synapse Analytics — each maps to any object or custom field on the other side.
Service principals /servicePrincipals (enterprise apps) plus appRoleAssignments; read for app inventory and access-posture reporting. Tables (dedicated SQL pool) Distributed warehouse tables that serve as sync destinations for analytics workloads. Service principals is specific to Azure Active Directory and Tables (dedicated SQL pool) to Azure Synapse Analytics — each maps to any object or custom field on the other side.

How changes propagate between Azure Active Directory and Azure Synapse Analytics

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.

Azure Active Directory Azure Synapse Analytics Sub-second propagation

DetectionAzure Active Directory notifies Stacksync of record changes through webhook events. Microsoft Graph delta query (deltaLink tokens returning only changed users and groups, with @removed deletions) paired with change-notification.

DeliveryEach detected change is applied to Azure Synapse Analytics as a row-level write, with types converted between the two schemas.

Azure Synapse Analytics Azure Active Directory Interval-based propagation

DetectionStacksync polls Azure Synapse Analytics for changes on an incremental schedule, reading only records changed since the previous pass. Polling on watermark columns.

DeliveryEach detected change is written to Azure Active Directory through its API, with automatic retries and rate-limit backoff.

Rate-limit considerations

  • Azure Active Directory: Resource-unit throttling: roughly 8,000 ResourceUnits per 10 seconds per app for reads on tenants over 500 users, writes near 3,000 requests per 2.5 minutes; 429 responses include a Retry-After header.
What ships with Azure Active Directory ⇄ Azure Synapse Analytics

Connect Azure Active Directory and Azure Synapse Analytics for flexible, real-time data sync.

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

Real-time

Two-way sync

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

No-code + pro-code

Workflow automation

Trigger automated workflows whenever Azure Active Directory or Azure Synapse Analytics 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 Azure Active Directory or Azure Synapse Analytics record.

Observability

Monitoring

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

Trading partners

EDI

Transform legacy EDI complexity into simple database interactions between Azure Active Directory and Azure Synapse Analytics.

How the Azure Active Directory and Azure Synapse Analytics connectors work

Azure Active Directory

Integration surface
Microsoft Graph REST API (v1.0)
Authentication
OAuth 2.0 via the Microsoft identity platform using an Entra ID app registration; app-only (client credentials) or delegated flows, with directory scopes such as User.ReadWrite.All and Group.ReadWrite.All requiring tenant admin consent
Change detection
Microsoft Graph delta query (deltaLink tokens returning only changed users and groups, with @removed deletions) paired with change-notification webhook subscriptions for near-real-time push
Capabilities
read · write · webhooks
Rate limits
Resource-unit throttling: roughly 8,000 ResourceUnits per 10 seconds per app for reads on tenants over 500 users, writes near 3,000 requests per 2.5 minutes; 429 responses include a Retry-After header

Azure Synapse Analytics

Integration surface
SQL wire protocol (TDS) with T-SQL for SQL pools; additional Spark and pipeline surfaces exist but syncs use the SQL endpoint
Authentication
SQL authentication or Microsoft Entra ID
Change detection
Polling on watermark columns; Synapse SQL pools do not expose log-based CDC for downstream consumers
Capabilities
read · write
How it works

How to connect Azure Active Directory to Azure Synapse Analytics — 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 Azure Active Directory and Azure Synapse Analytics 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
    Azure Active Directory connected
    Azure Synapse Analytics connected
    OAuth 2.0
    SSH tunnel
    SSL certificate
    VPC peering
  2. 02

    Choose tables

    Pick the Azure Active Directory and Azure Synapse Analytics 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 · Azure Active Directory ⇄ Azure Synapse Analytics
    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
    Azure Active Directory Azure Synapse Analytics
    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:

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