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Active Directory Sync: What data is used?

Understand the technical background to the Active Directory Sync and how your data is used


Accessing your Active Directory

🏳️ Available on our Enterprise plan

📍This agent is offered for use with on-premise Active Directory, but please note that SwipedOn cannot offer technical support

The SwipedOn Active Directory sync agent can only query user LDAP/Active Directory information. It never writes or updates to your Active Directory server. The local agent will call your Active Directory as per the settings you provide on setup.

Once a query is made to the local Windows Server, a simple and limited JSON result will be provided to the installed sync agent in the following format:

This will never include sensitive information such as passwords. Once the local application has this information, it will be cleaned/formatted and compared before using and sending to SwipedOn’s servers. Information will be formatted and sent to SwipedOn in the following format:

Data diagram

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