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Confluence Converting Users in Internal Directory to AD Directory

Brandon Pal

SO I'm not sure if i'm missing somethign as I google away or if it's just not out there.

I have about 5-10 users in the internal directory that I would like to move to our AD directory.

If I jsut add them to the AD group they loose there current access levels and there posts are no longer linked with there account.

So how do I add them to the AD group and also merge the account with there interall account?

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AndrewA

Hello,
Content in Confleunce is tighly linked to the username. If the username in AD matches the username from the internal direcotry, then simply synching should against AD should assoicate the content. However, it sounds like the usernames differ (otherwise you wouldn't be making this request). In that case, the options are 1) Chaning the username in AD and 2) Chaning the username in Confluence.

Changing the username in Confluence is currently difficult and involves hacking at the DB which is not supported by Atlassian. However, the ability to change usernames in Confluence is coming soon so depending on your time table it may be worth it to wait. If not, then the following page shows how some people accomplish changing usernames in Confluence. Again, this is not support by Atlassian nor do we recommend it so please do so at your own risk.

Changing usernames in Confluence

Cheers,
Andrew

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AndrewA

Changing usernames in Confluence

Cheers,
Andrew

Brandon Pal

Hi,

Thank you for getting back to me so quickly.

Actually the names are the same but what I have found in testing is...

When I started another admin added me to the internal directory accidentaly. When I add myself to the correct group in AD and try to log back into Confluence I loose my groups and no longer am able to access anything in Confluence.

Am I missing something or is there a way to merge the two?

AndrewA

Hi Brandon,
This could be a matter of ordering the driecotries. When a user logs in, Confluence searches these direcotries in the order they appear on the user direcotry page. Once the user is found, it stops looking and moves forward with what is found.

What this means is that we will pull the info for the direcotry the user is found in. If AD is first, then we respect the username and groups found there. If the internal directory is first then we respect the username and groups found there. Both these statements assume that the exact username (caseing as well) exists in both user direcotries.

Is the caseing he same in both direcotries? Also, is AD in the first position or is the internal direcotry?

Cheers,
Andrew

Brandon Pal

AD is the first position. How can i merge the 2 accounts so I can

1) remove the internall directory
2) make sure users retain groups and posts

Thank for you help.

AndrewA

Hi Brendan,

Sorry for the late response, I was away from the site for a bit. I did some testing and am afraid I was mistaken before about the gorup memberships. The groups will continue to exist in the internal direcotry and the users are now in AD. However, the membership will need to be recreated. If we navigate to each user and edit their group details we can add them to the needed groups. I believe there are only 15 users so adding this manually should be quick. There is a way to migrate these memberships in bulk but adding them manually may be faster. For details on the bulk move please see the following page.

Migrate local group memberships between directories

Consdering the number of users though I think that manualy adding the users back would be easier.

Cheers,
Andrew

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