Sync contacts from Active Directory to Google Contacts using CHEKIN

Before we dive into syncing contacts from Active Directory to Google Contacts, let us see what Active Directory is. Active Directory (AD) is a directory service that Microsoft developed for the Windows domain networks. It is a structure that stores data in a hierarchy and makes this data available to users and administrators. It is also an LDAP compliant database. In Active Directory, an organization can set up various users and store their information like names, passwords, phone numbers, emails and so on, enable other users that are authorized to access this information.

Although Active Directory provides great flexibility for managing user information, it can not be used with any other service, like G Suite. Any Organization wanting to migrate to G Suite needs to manually re-enter all the contacts. This both time consuming and a loss of productivity for the organization.

Here, CHEKIN comes into play. CHEKIN is a secure authentication system through which you can connect your Google account securely to any device. It developed on the Google AppEngine Platform and can seamlessly integrate with the Google Cloud platform. To know more about CHEKIN, visit this link. CHEKIN also contains many advantages over other SSOs. To get a comparison of CHEKIN with other SSOs, visit this link.

CHECKIN’s upcoming feature is to sync users of Active Directory in Google Contacts. With this, any AD administrator can replicate their user data into Google Contacts but manage it from Active Directory. This will save valuable time and prevent errors that can happen due to manual entry.

The benefits of using this feature are:

• Any user data in Active Directory can be migrated in Google Contacts

• Any change in user data in Active Directory will be automatically reflected in Google Contacts.

• Administrators can control contacts visibility.

• Users deleted from Active Directory will also be deleted from Google Contacts automatically.