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Cisco Secure Access Help Provision Users, Groups, and Endpoint Devices from Active Directory Manage AD Connectors Deploy LDIF Files for AD Connector Step 3 – Deploy the LDIF Source Files

Last updated: Aug 29, 2025

Step 3 – Deploy the LDIF Source Files

Deploy the LDIF source files on your server.

Before you begin

  • Full Admin user role. For more information, see Manage Accounts.
  • For information about network requirements, and connector user account and server prerequisites, see Prerequisites for AD Connectors.
  • Cisco AD Connector version 1.14.4 or newer.

Procedure

1

Navigate to the C:\ drive on your server.
2

Generate the LDIF files for the users and groups in your organization, and zip the files into a file. Name the file Cisco-AD-Connector-LDIF.zip.

  • Base-64 encode the value of the objectGUID fields.
  • Use two colons (::) to separate the objectGUID fields.
  • For users, create an UserStruct.ldif file. The supported fields are:
    • dn, objectGUID, sAMAccountName, userPrincipalName, memberOf, and primaryGroupID.
  • For groups, create a GroupStruct.ldif file. The supported fields are:
    • dn, objectGUID, sAMAccountName, userPrincipalName, memberOf, and primaryGroupToken.
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