Hi everyone, Does anyone has any best practice document/link for Active Directory source to manage users, groups and service accounts? Thanks Kalyan

Hi @kalyannambi2010 , you can follow the the guide: Integrating SailPoint with Active Directory SailPoint Connectors Documentation basically for AD, the best practice are: use TLS reading only the necessary OUs(if you don’t need to read the whole forest) r…

Hi @enistriminsait thank you for your reply and do we need to create separate AD sources for normal accounts, admin accounts and service accounts etc and how to manage all these accounts in different sources if we create? any thoughts on this? Thanks Kalyan

This is a you choice. You can create multiple sources or only one, both have advantages and disadvantages. With multiple sources you can manage or search better every single type of account but you need top maintain more sources, vice versa with one source

Hi Kalyan, Below is the link for Best Practices given by Sailpoint for Managing Service Accounts. https://community.sailpoint.com/t5/IdentityNow-Articles/Best-Practices-Managing-Service-Accounts-in-IdentityNow/ta-p/79435 Let me know if you need any more details. Thanks

Hi @enistriminsait thank you for providing the details. Thanks Kalyan

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kalyannambi2010 (Kalyana Chakravarthi Nambi) July 30, 2024, 10:34am 7

Hi @RAKGDS thank you for providing the details.

Thanks
Kalyan

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