1.2 Data Transfers Between Systems

The Azure AD driver supports data transfer on the Publisher and the Subscriber channels.

The Publisher channel controls the data transfer as follows:

  • Reads events from the configured domains.

  • Submits that information to the Identity Vault.

The Subscriber channel controls the data transfer as follows:

  • Watches for the events from the Identity Vault objects.

  • Makes changes to Azure AD based on the event data.

You can configure the driver filter to allow both Azure AD and Identity Vault to modify the attribute(s). In this configuration, the most recent change determines the attribute value, except for merge operations that are controlled by filters and the merge authority.

The Exchange schema uses a different casing than the Azure AD schema where the first character of an Exchange schema attribute is uppercase, which is lowercase in Azure AD schema.