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Active Roles 8.1.1 - Synchronization Service Administration Guide

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SharePoint data supported for data synchronization

The following table lists the data objects and data operations supported by the SharePoint Connector.

Synchronization Service provides special attributes for each supported SharePoint object type, allowing you to read or write data in SharePoint. You can access and use these attributes from the Synchronization Service Console, for example, when selecting the source and target attributes to include in the synchronization operation.

Table 57: Supported objects and operations 

Object

Read

Create

Delete

Update

AlternateURL

Allows you to read data related to an incoming URL and the zone with which it is associated.

Yes

No

No

No

ClaimProvider

Allows you to read data related to a claim provider.

Yes

No

No

No

Farm

Allows you to work with a SharePoint farm.

Yes

No

No

No

Group

Allows you to work with a group on a SharePoint website.

Yes

Yes

Yes

Yes

Language

Allows you to work with a language used in SharePoint.

Yes

No

No

No

Policy

Allows you to work with a policy assigned to a user or group.

Yes

Yes

Yes

Yes

PolicyRole

Allows you to work with the rights possessed by a policy role.

Yes

Yes

Yes

Yes

Prefix

Allows you to work with a relative URL that determines segments of the URL under which sites may be created.

Yes

No

No

No

RoleAssignment

Allows you to work with role assignments for a user or group.

Yes

Yes

Yes

Yes

RoleDefinition

Allows you to work with a role definition, including name, description, management properties, and a set of rights.

Yes

Yes

Yes

Yes

Site

Allows you to work with site collections in an Internet Information Services (IIS) web application.

Yes

Yes

Yes

Yes

User

Allows you to work with a user in SharePoint.

Yes

Yes

Yes

Yes

Web

Allows you to work with a SharePoint website.

Yes

Yes

Yes

Yes

WebApplication

Allows you to work with an IIS load-balanced web application installed on a server farm.

Yes

No

No

Yes

WebTemplate

Allows you to work with a site definition configuration or a web template used to create SharePoint sites.

Yes

No

No

No

The following sections describe the attributes provided by Synchronization Service and describe what data you can read or write in SharePoint by using a particular attribute.

AlternateURL object attributes

In a SharePoint connection, the Synchronization Service supports the following attributes of the AlternateURL object with the following synchronization operations.

Table 58: AlternateURL object attributes

Attribute

Type

Description

Supported operations

Id

Single-valued, string

Gets the object ID.

Read

IncomingUrl

Single-valued, string

Gets the incoming URL that is associated with the zone from which the request originated.

Read

Parent

Single-valued, string, reference (WebApplication object)

Gets the parent of the object.

Read

Uri

Single-valued, string

Gets the incoming URL associated with the zone from which the request originated, in the form of an URI.

Read

UrlZone

Single-valued, string

Gets the zone that is associated with the alternate request URL.

Read

ClaimProvider object attributes

In a SharePoint connection, the Synchronization Service supports the following attributes of the ClaimProvider object with the following synchronization operations.

Table 59: ClaimProvider object attributes

Attribute

Type

Description

Supported operations

AssemblyName

Single-valued, string

Gets the name of the assembly that implements the claims provider.

Read

Description

Single-valued, string

Gets the description of the claims provider.

Read

DisplayName

Single-valued, string

Gets the display name of the claims provider.

Read

Id

Single-valued, string

Gets the object ID.

Read

IsEnabled

Single-valued, Boolean

Gets whether the claims provider is enabled.

Read

IsUsedByDefault

Single-valued, Boolean

Gets whether the claims provider applies by default to all web applications and zones.

Read

IsValid

Single-valued, Boolean

Gets whether the claims provider is valid.

Read

IsVisible

Single-valued, Boolean

Gets whether the claims provider is visible.

Read

Parent

Single-valued, string, reference (Farm object)

Gets the parent of the object.

Read

TypeName

Single-valued, string

Gets the type of the object.

Read

Farm object attributes

In a SharePoint connection, the Synchronization Service supports the following attributes of the Farm object with the following synchronization operations.

Table 60: Farm object attributes

Attribute

Type

Description

Supported operations

BuildVersion

Single-valued, string

Gets the build version of the SharePoint server farm.

Read

CanBackupRestoreAsConfiguration

Single-valued, Boolean

Gets whether the farm can participate in a configuration-only backup or restore.

Read

CanRenameOnRestore

Single-valued, Boolean

Gets whether the farm can be renamed during its restore.

Read

CanSelectForBackup

Single-valued, Boolean

Gets whether the farm can be selected for backup.

Read

CanSelectForRestore

Single-valued, Boolean

Gets whether the farm can be selected for restore in the Central Administration user interface.

Read

DaysBeforePasswordExpirationToSendEmail

Single-valued, integer

Gets the number of days before password expiration when a notification email is sent.

Read

DefaultServiceAccount

Single-valued, string

Gets the default service account.

Read

EncodedFarmId

Single-valued, integer

Gets the farm identifier.

Read

Id

Single-valued, string

Gets the object ID.

Read

Name

Single-valued, string

Gets the farm name.

Read

Parent

Single-valued, string

Gets the parent of the object.

Read

PasswordChangeEmailAddress

Single-valued, string

Gets the email address that receives password change notification messages.

Read

PasswordChangeGuardTime

Single-valued, integer

Gets the time interval (in seconds) that is used to wait for other computers’ response during password change operations.

Read

PasswordChangeMaximumTries

Single-valued, integer

Gets the maximum allowed number of password change attempts before the operation fails.

Read

PersistedFileChunkSize

Single-valued, integer

Gets the chunk size used to transfer files to or from the configuration database during a read or write operation.

Read

Products

Multivalued, string

Gets the identifiers of products installed in the farm.

Read

ServerDebugFlags

Multivalued, integer

Gets server debug flags.

Read

Servers

Multivalued, string

Gets the physical servers that are included in the farm.

Read

TimerService

Single-valued, string

Gets the timer service that is used by the farm.

Read

TraceSessionGuid

Single-valued, string

Gets the GUID that is used for trace session registration.

Read

UseMinWidthForHtmlPicker

Single-valued, Boolean

Gets the HTML select control.

Read

UserLicensingEnabled

Single-valued, Boolean

Gets whether user licensing is enabled.

Read

XsltTransformTimeOut

Single-valued, integer

Gets the timeout period (in seconds) for a customized XSLT transformation operation.

Read

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