How active directory authentication works with Jira and Confluence as a same system?

[КБУ 1551]

For example, users in Jira Service Desk are connected to Active Directory and I want to integrate Confluence to Jira. I must do a separate authorization through Active Directory for Confluence or pick up users from the Service Desk, which in turn pulls them from Active Directory, or there is more variants?

[JP _AC Bielefeld Leader_]

Remember, you don't get a Single Sign On by just using the same Active Directory. You need addon for that or use the Datacenter versions.

Best

JP

[Grigory Salnikov]

Hi @КБУ 1551  and welcome to our Community!

As long as your users are fetched from the AD (in the Service Desk) I think you should just use the AD integration for the Confluence as well. 

If you had your users listed in the local user directory on Service Desk we could use it as an external directory for Confluence.

Hope it helps.