6.6 Understanding Google Apps Mappings

Mapped placement of newly provisioned users to a sub-organization overrides the default placement in the top-level organization. On the Policy page, you can map the User Account authorization and a User Placement authorization value to the same identity source group. Once users are added to the appropriate identity source group, which triggers user account provisioning to Google Apps, new users are placed in the organization that you mapped to the identity source group in Policy Mapping.

IMPORTANT:Pay careful attention when mapping User Placement authorization values to identity source groups on the Policy page to ensure that users are placed in the intended Google Apps organizations. Google Apps allows each user to be placed in only one organization at a time. If you grant a User Placement authorization to a user, and then grant another User Placement authorization to the same user, the first value is overwritten when the user is moved in the Google Apps organizational unit structure.

In addition, if you revoke a User Placement authorization for a user, even if that user has multiple User Placement authorizations, that user is moved to the default organization specified in the Google Apps connector configuration. (Because Google Apps allows a user to be placed into only one organization at a time, when a User Placement authorization value is overwritten, there is only one value that is removed, which moves the user back to the default placement.) If you want to move that user from the default location back into a new Google Apps sub-organization, you must add the user back to the appropriate identity source group and perform policy mappings again.

If you revoke a User Account authorization for a user after the user has been provisioned into Google Apps and one or more User Placement authorizations have been granted to the user, that user is placed in suspended mode in Google Apps. No placement activity takes place as long as the user account is suspended; the user simply remains in the Google Apps organization that they were in before the suspension. When you re-grant the User Account authorization, the account is moved to the “active user” state. If you performed a User Placement authorization change while the user account was suspended, the user is moved to the appropriate organization once the account is reactivated.