Keeping Information Synchronized
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After initial synchronization, you can perform incremental synchronizations to only update data that has changed since the previous synchronization. For example, if a new user account is added in a user forest, you would synchronize only this new user data and create a contact for this user in the central forest.
Import Active Directory Objects for each Forest into the Connector Space
For each forest, you import data that is stored in Active Directory into the forests connector space. You must perform this step for each user forest in which user information has changed.
To import Active Directory data into the Connector Space
On the Microsoft Identity Integration Server (MIIS) computer, start Identity Manager: Click Start, point to All Programs, point to Microsoft Identity Integration Server, and then click Identity Manager.
Click Management Agents.
Right-click the management agent for the central forest, and then click Run.
Click Delta Import, and then click OK.
Repeat steps 1 through 4 for each forest where Active Directory changes have occurred (where users, groups, or contacts have been changed, added, or deleted).
Synchronize the Metaverse
After you have imported new Active Directory data for each user forest in your environment, you synchronize the information for each forest in the metaverse.
Note
You must synchronize information from the central forest before synchronizing information from user forests.
To synchronize the metaverse for your central forest
On the Microsoft Identity Integration Server (MIIS) computer, start Identity Manager: Click Start, point to All Programs, point to Microsoft Identity Integration Server, and then click Identity Manager.
Click Management Agents.
Right-click the management agent for your central forest, and then click Run.
Click Delta Sync, and then click OK.
To synchronize the metaverse for your user forests
On the MIIS computer, start Identity Manager: Click Start, point to All Programs, point to Microsoft Identity Integration Server, and then click Identity Manager.
Click Management Agents.
Right-click the management agent for your first user forest, and then click Run.
Click Delta Sync, and then click OK.
Repeat steps 1 through 4 for each forest where changes have occurred.
Provision the Central Forest
After you have synchronized the new data that was imported from all user forests, you provision the central forest so that contact objects are created, updated, or deleted for each change in the user forest and any new contacts are enabled for Office Communications Server.
To provision the central forest
On the Microsoft Identity Integration Server (MIIS) computer, start Identity Manager: Click Start, point to All Programs, point to Microsoft Identity Integration Server, and then click Identity Manager.
Click Management Agents.
Right-click the management agent for the central forest, and then click Run.
Click Export, and then click OK.