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krishna chaitanya 35krishna chaitanya 35 

Sync Active directory contacts to salesforce

Hi,

There is a requirement to sync active directory contacts to salesforce crm.Is there any integration api's or any standarad salesforce methods to sync.
I refered to identity connect from salesforce it is used to sync user data .Bu i want to know is there is any way to sync contact data.

Thanks,
Krishna.
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Hi Krishan check this once..

if your AD server supports Webservices. e.g. the Windows server 2008 R2  with ADWS then salesforce can consume this as like any other webservice.

Or you can export the AD user list as a CSV and then push it back into salesforce using any ETL tool like Jitterbit, dataloader.io etc.. 

some sample links i googled up : http://goo.gl/VFQACF
http://hosting.intermedia.net/support/kb/?id=1711
http://stackoverflow.com/questions/4381943/how-to-export-csv-of-active-directory-objectsone of the link specifies a script that can be generated, once that happens you can even use the API from salesforce to load the data in.

Hope that helped a little :)
krishna chaitanya 35krishna chaitanya 35
Hi ,

In a general scenario whether AD supports web services or not? I need to verify with windows team.