How to Move from G Suite Sync to Atlassian Access

[Rich Kirkpatrick]

What are the steps & impacts of moving from G Suite Sync to Atlasssian Access (AA)?  G Suite Sync only allows users to be synchronized & access to be granted against.  We want to move to Atlassian Access to gain the ability to do this with Groups, however we currently have G Suite Sync setup.  On the User Provisioning page of AA, we are simply greeted with a "You must disconnect G Suite" message.  Has anyone gone down this road before?  Does this mean a complete teardown and rebuilding of our existing Confluence and Jira sites?

[Sébastien Deleye · Accepted solution]

For information, I raised a support request and here you are the reply :

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From your issue description, I understand you would like to also sync the description of a group that is being Synced to Atlassian along with the Group name.
Currently, this is not possible. Only the group name will sync when provisioned from an Identity provider.
However, we do have an open feature request that we are tracking publicly below:

• Allow syncing group description over SCIM
  

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[Doug Cook]

Looks like the only option to map the description attribute to Atlassian cloud is "id". Doesn't exactly tell me if it will update the description of the group's id or something else.

Voted to get this implemented.