Managing a Synchronized Security Model

One of the benefits of synchronizing the VSA with the domain is that the domain hierarchy of folders and items—domains, organizational units/containers, computers, groups, users, and contacts—is automatically "harvested" to create and maintain a similar security model in the VSA—organizations, machine groups, machines, users, scopes, roles, and staff. Service providers are freed from having to enter the same data a second time in the VSA. For example, user data, such email, phone and other contact information need only be updated in the domain to update corresponding fields in the VSA.

The security model created in the VSA by KDS integration with the Active Directory domain results in the following mapping of objects.

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