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Importing your LDAP user groups also gives you one centralized place to manage your groups. License Statistics refreshes the user group data every 6 hours, so changes to user groups made in Active Directory, such as newly added or removed users, will be reflected automatically in License Statistics. In addition, for users imported from LDAP, hovering over usernames in License Statistics grids (such as in User History, Realtime Usage or Realtime Users Count report pages) shows user details, giving you more information about the users included in your usage statistics.Note that when LDAP is enabled, you cannot remove user groups, because when LDAP is synchronized, the user groups will be readded. However, if
To import your LDAP user groups, you must provide the information needed to connect to your LDAP server, as described inConnecting to an LDAP server.
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You cannot manually remove LDAP user groups. If you disable LDAP, the imported user groups will |
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it is recommended to configure the LDAP import filter to exclude all users from the search results. The next scheduled run or manual import will synchronize users and user groups. All users who do not match the filter will be disconnected from LDAP groups. Empty groups will be automatically deleted. |
You can use the Microsoft administration tools on the Active Directory server to exclude any of your Active Directory user groups from being imported. To do this, add "License_Statistics=No_Import" to the note field of the group properties for each of the user groups you do not want to import, as shown in the example below.
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