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Crowd: Migrating from Crowd internal directory to Microsoft Active Directory

Ben Scutt

Hi,

We have been using Crowd with an internal directory of users for SSO between JIRA, Confluence, Stash and Bamboo for the last few years.

We are now migrating over to using Microsoft Active Directory as our primary directory on Crowd. I have set up a stage environment to test, and have successfully created a new Microsoft Active Directory directory and imported all the relevant user and groups.

However the problem is that everyone will get new account for our applications as this is a new directory. Is it possible to either disable all the accounts in our old Crowd Internal Directory and link them to the new account in the Microsoft Active Directory? Or to merge the directory/accounts?

The end goal is that people who previously had an account in the Crowd internal directory would still be able to see all thier previous history/issues in JIRA/Confluence etc when we migrate over to the MS Active Directory.

Thanks in advance.

Ben

Accepted answers

Jobin Kuruvilla [Adaptavist]

As long as the user name matches, you can just put the AD user directory on top of the internal user directory and everything should work fine.

Keep an eye on the permissions as the user groups will have to be either created in AD or aggregated from both directories.

All comments

Jobin Kuruvilla [Adaptavist]

As long as the user name matches, you can just put the AD user directory on top of the internal user directory and everything should work fine.

Keep an eye on the permissions as the user groups will have to be either created in AD or aggregated from both directories.

Ben Scutt

Thanks - I didn't think it would be that simple! The usernames where slightly different between the directories - I have to manually re-name the users in the old directory, and sync all the apps with crowd before adding the AD user directory, to preserve the users' history.

Timothy Harris

Well, I must be doing something wrong them as I end up with a new user. Seems t hapen to a user that had a user name that did NOT match what was in AD. I tried renaming the user prior to importing from Crowd directory. But it didn't seem to help sad

Kyle Rosier

@Jobin Kuruvilla [Adaptavist] could you please clarify where you're prioritizing the user directories? In Crowd you create an application and then add directories to the application. You can order the directories there, within Crowd, to prioritize them.

Then on the application side (i.e. JIRA) you add a user directory from Crowd, which is the "application" on the Crowd side. Here you can also order the directories to prioritize them.

I'm currently trying to figure out how to achieve the same thing that Ben was originally asking about. Do I setup my AD directory as a separate "application" in Crowd, and then add my internal Crowd and AD directories as separate User Directories in JIRA? Or do I add both directories to the same "application" in Crowd, and add that single entity as a User Directory to JIRA?

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