topic Help with LDAP in Alfresco Archive https://connect.hyland.com/t5/alfresco-archive/help-with-ldap/m-p/265919#M219049 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><SPAN>Hello all.&nbsp; I have some prior experience integrating various other apps into our Active Directory, however I'm not able to make heads or tails of most of the settings involved with Alfresco.</SPAN><BR /><BR /><SPAN>I have a Windows Server 2008 with AD installed.&nbsp; I've sucessfully integrated out NAS, Helpdesk Website, and Vmware environment already.&nbsp; But alfresco is giving me some trouble. Here is my ldap-ad-authentication.properties file.&nbsp; Perhaps my mistake can easily be seen.&nbsp; I tried to input all the data based off the wiki guide, but some things I'm not totally sure of.</SPAN><BR /><BR /><SPAN>The FQDN of the the AD server is icsserver.ics.local&nbsp; </SPAN><BR /><SPAN>I have a user account "alfresco@ics.local" which I'm using as the account for authentication</SPAN><BR /><SPAN>I need to only give users in an OU named "ICSUsers" which is a top level OU.</SPAN><BR /><BR /><SPAN>Any help would be greatly appreciated.</SPAN><BR /><BR /><PRE class="language-none line-numbers"><CODE><BR /># This flag enables use of this LDAP subsystem for authentication. It may be<BR /># that this subsytem should only be used for synchronization, in which case<BR /># this flag should be set to false.<BR />ldap.authentication.active=true<BR /><BR />#<BR /># This properties file brings together the common options for LDAP authentication rather than editing the bean definitions<BR />#<BR />ldap.authentication.allowGuestLogin=false<BR /><BR /># How to map the user id entered by the user to taht passed through to LDAP<BR /># In Active Directory, this can either be the user principal name (UPN) or DN.<BR /># UPNs are in the form &lt;sAMAccountName&gt;@domain and are held in the userPrincipalName attribute of a user<BR />ldap.authentication.userNameFormat=%s@domain<BR /><BR /># The LDAP context factory to use<BR />ldap.authentication.java.naming.factory.initial=com.sun.jndi.ldap.LdapCtxFactory<BR /><BR /># The URL to connect to the LDAP server <BR />ldap.authentication.java.naming.provider.url=ldap://icsserver.ics.local:389<BR /><BR /># The authentication mechanism to use for password validation<BR />ldap.authentication.java.naming.security.authentication=simple<BR /><BR /># Escape commas entered by the user at bind time<BR /># Useful when using simple authentication and the CN is part of the DN and contains commas<BR />ldap.authentication.escapeCommasInBind=false<BR /><BR /># Escape commas entered by the user when setting the authenticated user<BR /># Useful when using simple authentication and the CN is part of the DN and contains commas, and the escaped \, is <BR /># pulled in as part of an LDAP sync<BR /># If this option is set to true it will break the default home folder provider as space names can not contain \<BR />ldap.authentication.escapeCommasInUid=false<BR /><BR /># Comma separated list of user names who should be considered administrators by default<BR />ldap.authentication.defaultAdministratorUserNames=jared.adams,ken.kiernan,keith.wagner,eric.eliason<BR /><BR /># This flag enables use of this LDAP subsystem for user and group<BR /># synchronization. It may be that this subsytem should only be used for <BR /># authentication, in which case this flag should be set to false.<BR />ldap.synchronization.active=true<BR /><BR /># The authentication mechanism to use for synchronization<BR />ldap.synchronization.java.naming.security.authentication=simple<BR /><BR /># The default principal to bind with (only used for LDAP sync). This should be a UPN or DN<BR />ldap.synchronization.java.naming.security.principal=alfresco@ics.local<BR /><BR /># The password for the default principal (only used for LDAP sync)<BR />ldap.synchronization.java.naming.security.credentials=XXXXXXXXXXXXX<BR /><BR /># If positive, this property indicates that RFC 2696 paged results should be<BR /># used to split query results into batches of the specified size. This<BR /># overcomes any size limits imposed by the LDAP server.<BR />ldap.synchronization.queryBatchSize=1000<BR /><BR /># If positive, this property indicates that range retrieval should be used to fetch<BR /># multi-valued attributes (such as member) in batches of the specified size.<BR /># Overcomes any size limits imposed by Active Directory.&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; <BR />ldap.synchronization.attributeBatchSize=1000<BR /><BR /># The query to select all objects that represent the groups to import.<BR />ldap.synchronization.groupQuery=(objectclass\=group)<BR /><BR /># The query to select objects that represent the groups to import that have changed since a certain time.<BR />ldap.synchronization.groupDifferentialQuery=(&amp;(objectclass\=group)(!(whenChanged&lt;\={0})))<BR /><BR /># The query to select all objects that represent the users to import.<BR />ldap.synchronization.personQuery=(&amp;(objectclass\=user)(userAccountControl\:1.2.840.113556.1.4.803\:\=512))<BR /><BR /># The query to select objects that represent the users to import that have changed since a certain time.<BR />ldap.synchronization.personDifferentialQuery=(&amp;(objectclass\=user)(userAccountControl\:1.2.840.113556.1.4.803\:\=512)(!(whenChanged&lt;\={0})))<BR /><BR /># The group search base restricts the LDAP group query to a sub section of tree on the LDAP server.<BR />ldap.synchronization.groupSearchBase=ou\=ICSUsers<BR /><BR /># The user search base restricts the LDAP user query to a sub section of tree on the LDAP server.<BR />ldap.synchronization.userSearchBase=ou\=ICSUsers<BR /><BR /># The name of the operational attribute recording the last update time for a group or user.<BR />ldap.synchronization.modifyTimestampAttributeName=whenChanged<BR /><BR /># The timestamp format. Unfortunately, this varies between directory servers.<BR />ldap.synchronization.timestampFormat=yyyyMMddHHmmss'.0Z'<BR /><BR /># The attribute name on people objects found in LDAP to use as the uid in Alfresco<BR />ldap.synchronization.userIdAttributeName=sAMAccountName<BR /><BR /># The attribute on person objects in LDAP to map to the first name property in Alfresco<BR />ldap.synchronization.userFirstNameAttributeName=givenName<BR /><BR /># The attribute on person objects in LDAP to map to the last name property in Alfresco<BR />ldap.synchronization.userLastNameAttributeName=sn<BR /><BR /># The attribute on person objects in LDAP to map to the email property in Alfresco<BR />ldap.synchronization.userEmailAttributeName=mail<BR /><BR /># The attribute on person objects in LDAP to map to the organizational id&nbsp; property in Alfresco<BR />ldap.synchronization.userOrganizationalIdAttributeName=company<BR /><BR /># The default home folder provider to use for people created via LDAP import<BR />ldap.synchronization.defaultHomeFolderProvider=largeHomeFolderProvider<BR /><BR /># The attribute on LDAP group objects to map to the authority name property in Alfresco<BR />ldap.synchronization.groupIdAttributeName=cn<BR /><BR /># The attribute on LDAP group objects to map to the authority display name property in Alfresco<BR />ldap.synchronization.groupDisplayNameAttributeName=displayName<BR /><BR /># The group type in LDAP<BR />ldap.synchronization.groupType=group<BR /><BR /># The person type in LDAP<BR />ldap.synchronization.personType=user<BR /><BR /># The attribute in LDAP on group objects that defines the DN for its members<BR />ldap.synchronization.groupMemberAttributeName=member<BR /><BR /># If true progress estimation is enabled. 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