Alfresco will not sync with AD with over 1000 users

[rbone100]

Has anyone found a way to sync Active Directory with Alfresco when you have more than 1000 users?

By default, AD will only give back 1000 query entries at once. There is no way to specify a pagesize in the Alfresco code. (Specifying a pagesize would solve the problem when syncing) In our environment we cannot modify the AD server in any way what so ever to allow AD to give more than 1000 entries–There is a setting in Active Directory that will allow it but it is set to only return 1000 entries by default. Our group does not control the settings of AD and the group that controls AD will not make any changes.

Our user base has over 15,000 people.

Does anyone have any ideas????

Thanks!

[tvaughan77]

I know this isn't really helpful, but FWIW, the excellent Alfresco Developer Guide from Jeff Potts has this to say about synching with monster directories

If your directory is in the tens or hundreds of thousands of entries, you need to give serious thought to how synchronization is going to work or whether you will use it at all.  You can split the sync up into multiple jobs, each handling different parts of the directory tree if needed, and that may help.

In the past, I've seen clients with large directories handling user and group synchronization in real time via a message queue–….but [that] is not provided out of the box.

[rbone100]

If Alfresco had a pagesize configuration this wouldn't be an issue………