Active Directory and Federated Authentication Settings
4 min
active directory (ad) integration allows blueprint to authenticate users through your organization's directory service when enabled, blueprint syncs user accounts and group memberships from your ad environment, reducing the need to manage users manually in blueprint to configure active directory, navigate to settings > advanced settings > active directory settings general settings enable active directory — activates ad integration for your blueprint instance when enabled, users can sign in using their ad credentials check for user's email uniqueness — prevents duplicate accounts by verifying that each email address is associated with only one user in blueprint use legacy domain name — forces blueprint to use the legacy domain name format when resolving user accounts enable this if your ad environment uses older naming conventions integration settings choose how blueprint connects to your active directory environment use default connection on identity — blueprint uses the preconfigured identity connection (e g , bpcloud\cx bp) this is the default option and requires no additional configuration use custom active directory integrations — allows you to define one or more custom ad connections when selected, you can add integrations by specifying a name, user account, and directory url ⓘ if no custom integrations have been added, the integrations table will display there are no custom active directory integrations synchronization settings blueprint can automatically synchronize active directory groups and users on a recurring schedule, keeping blueprint user data in sync with your directory synchronize active directory groups and users on a regular schedule — enables automatic synchronization when unchecked, synchronization must be triggered manually synchronization cadence — how often synchronization runs (e g , daily) days until sync — the number of days between each synchronization cycle time of day — the time at which the scheduled synchronization runs (e g , 12 00 am)