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Google Apps Now Syncs with Directory Systems...Yep, Like Microsoft's

Source: ReadWriteWeb

May 01, 2009

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According to a post on the Google Enterprise Blog this morning, there's a new tool for Google Apps users that lets businesses sync the user account information in Google Apps with the business's LDAP user directory system. If you're in I.T., you probably already know what that means, but if not, let me spell it out for you: Google now syncs with Microsoft's Active Directory.

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Of course, there are other systems that use LDAP (Lightweight Directory Access Protocol), including Lotus Domino and even the open source software OpenLDAP, but syncing with Microsoft's Active Directory - the directory system used by business worldwide running Windows Server - that's a big deal.

The syncing is made possible by way of a new utility called Google Apps Directory Sync, something that was brought over from Google's Postini security and archiving service. With this tool, businesses no longer have to create an entirely separate user account list within Google Apps - they can just use the user account information already stored within their current LDAP repository. The Dir

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