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Synchronizing deleted LDAP group?

jimbojw — Fri, 04 Sep 2009 19:53:51 GMT

Hi all,I have Alfresco community 3.3 (nightly from Aug 11) installed and synchronizing with Active Directory.To set up, I performed the following steps:1. Created a new folder (space)2. In Manage Space Users, I unchecked the box for inheriting from the parent space3. I added a group previously impor

Re: Synchronizing deleted LDAP group?

dward — Sat, 05 Sep 2009 11:35:48 GMT

To detect deleted users and groups, Alfresco has to query ALL users and groups from the LDAP directory. Not just those that have changed.

This is called a full sync, and only happens in the scheduled job that runs by default every midnight.

Alfresco does a faster 'differential sync' where it only queries for changed users and groups whenever a missing user is successfully authenticated and whenever the server is started up.

See http://wiki.alfresco.com/wiki/The_Synchronization_Subsystem for more details.

Re: Synchronizing deleted LDAP group?

jimbojw — Wed, 09 Sep 2009 14:56:04 GMT

Thanks dward,

After posting my comment and waiting 24 hours, I was able to confirm that deleted groups are indeed purged from Alfresco's cache during the nightly full sync.

Is there an easy way to trigger a full sync "on demand" (preferably without restarting the server)? Thanks in advance.

Re: Synchronizing deleted LDAP group?

dward — Wed, 09 Sep 2009 16:40:04 GMT

Sounds like you have the original community release, that commits all changes in one (very large and slow) transaction. Might still be worth taking a newer nightly build.

When the v3.2 Enterpise Edition is released, you'll be able to trigger it via JMX and JConsole. But right now, there is no easier way.