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Active Roles 7.4.3 - Synchronization Service Administration Guide

Synchronization Service Overview Deploying Synchronization Service Getting started Connections to external data systems
External data systems supported out of the box
Working with Active Directory Working with an AD LDS (ADAM) instance Working with Skype for Business Server Working with Oracle Working with Exchange Server Working with Active Roles Working with One Identity Manager Working with a delimited text file Working with Microsoft SQL Server Working with Micro Focus NetIQ Directory Working with Salesforce Working with ServiceNow Working with Oracle Unified Directory Working with an LDAP directory service Working with IBM DB2 Working with IBM AS/400 Working with an OpenLDAP directory service Working with IBM RACF connector Working with MySQL database Working with an OLE DB-compliant relational database Working with SharePoint Working with Microsoft Office 365 Working with Microsoft Azure Active Directory
Using connectors installed remotely Creating a connection Renaming a connection Deleting a connection Modifying synchronization scope for a connection Using connection handlers Specifying password synchronization settings for a connection
Synchronizing identity data Mapping objects Automated password synchronization Synchronization history Scenarios of use Appendix A: Developing PowerShell scripts for attribute synchronization rules Appendix B: Using a PowerShell script to transform passwords

Salesforce data supported out of the box

Out of the box, the Salesforce Connector supports all object types existing in Salesforce. For each Salesforce object, the Salesforce Connector supports the same operations (Read, Create, Delete, or Update) that you can perform on that object by using native Salesforce tools.

To read and/or write data related to a particular object in Salesforce, you can use the following:

  • Native Salesforce fields. In the Synchronization Service Administration Console user interface these fields are referred to as attributes. For more information on native Salesforce fields, see the “Reference | Standard Objects” section in the Salesforce Web Services API Developer's Guide available online at www.salesforce.com/us/developer/docs/api/.

  • Additional attributes provided by the Salesforce Connector. The names of all such attributes start with the va prefix. For information about these attributes, see the following sections:

 

User object additional attributes

Table 59: User additional attributes
Attribute Description Supported operations
vaProfileName

Allows you to specify a Salesforce profile. For example, you can use this attribute to assign a Salesforce profile to a user being provisioned to Salesforce.

To specify a profile, enter the profile name as it appears in the Salesforce user interface.

Examples of vaProfileName values:

  • System Administrator
  • Force.com - Free User
Read, Write
vaRoleName

Allows you to specify a Salesforce role. For example, you can use this attribute to assign a Salesforce role to a user being provisioned to Salesforce.

To specify a role, enter the role name in the format used in the Salesforce user interface.

For more information on roles, see the Salesforce documentation.

 Read, Write
vaManagerName

Allows you to specify a manager for a particular user.

To specify a manager, enter the manager name in the format used in the Salesforce user interface.

 Read, Write
vaContactName

Allows you to specify an associated contact for a particular user.

To specify an associated contact, enter the associated contact name in the format used in the Salesforce user interface.

 Read, Write
vaMemberOf

Allows you to define group membership for a particular user (this attribute is primarily intended for group membership synchronization).

This attribute contains references to the groups where the user is a member.

 Read, Write
vaMemberOfName Allows you to define group membership for a particular user (for example, when provisioning a user to Salesforce). Specify the names of the Salesforce groups where you want the user to be a member. Read, Write
vaLocale

Allows you to specify a locale for a particular user (for example, when provisioning a user to Salesforce).

To specify a locale, enter the locale name in the format used in the Salesforce user interface.

Example of a vaLocale value: English (United States)

 Read, Write

vaTimeZone

Allows you to specify a time zone for a user (for example, when provisioning a user to Salesforce).

To specify a time zone, enter the time zone name in the format used in the Salesforce user interface.

Example of a vaTimezone value: (GMT+00:00) Greenwich Mean Time (GMT)

 Read, Write

vaEmailEncoding

Allows you to specify outbound email encoding to be used for a user (for example, when provisioning a user to Salesforce).

Specify email encoding in the format used in the Salesforce user interface.

Example of a vaEmailEncoding value: Unicode (UTF-8)

 Read, Write

vaLanguage

Allows you to specify a user interface language for a particular user.

The Salesforce user interface and help will be displayed to the user in the language you specify in this attribute.

 Read, Write

vaDelegatedApproverUserName

Allows you to specify the name of the user you want to appoint as a delegated approver.

 Read, Write

vaDelegatedApproverGroupName

Allows you to specify the name of a group all members of which you want to appoint as delegated approvers.

 Read, Write

Group object additional attributes

Table 60: Group additional attributeses
Attribute Description Supported operations
vaMemberOf

Allows you to define group membership for the group in Salesforce (this attribute is primarily intended for group membership synchronization).

The attribute contains references to other groups where the group is a member.

 Read, Write
vaMemberOfName Allows you to define group membership for the group. Specify the names of Salesforce groups where you want the group to be a member. Read, Write
vaMember

Allows you to define members of the group.

This attribute contains references to the users and/or groups that are members of a particular group.

 Read, Write
vaMemberName

Allows you to define members of a particular group.

Specify the names of users and/or groups you want to be members of the group.

 Read, Write

Scenario: Provisioning users from an Active Directory domain to Salesforce

This scenario illustrates how to configure a synchronization workflow to provision users from an Active Directory domain to Salesforce. The scenario includes the following steps:

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