AD groups and JIRA permissions

[sn]

Users of JIRA 7.3 server.

we have been using LDAP for authentication and JIRA user groups for permissions/security/notifications.

Now, we plan to move to AD groups. I'm in the process of identifying what User groups in JIRA can be mapped to AD groups.

 Confluence and Bamboo use JIRA user directory.

Any links to support documents is helpful.

thanks !

[Bhaskar Chandraul]

were you able to solve the problem. as I also want to implement the thing. but the document shared is not very helpful as it does not describe on how to user AD groups for authentication. Also i want to import certain DL from AD to jira. is that possible. 

[Fazila Ashraf]

Hi @sn

https://confluence.atlassian.com/adminjiraserver/connecting-to-an-ldap-directory-938847052.html#ConnectingtoanLDAPdirectory-Groupschemasettings  has information about configuring groups while connecting to LDAP for authentication.

Would advice you to try the configurations in the test environment first to study the impacts and then implement it

[sn]

thanks fazila.

we already use LDAP. we are moving from LDAP to AD. I'm looking for some help/information with that regards.

yes, we will test it before Production implementation.

[Fazila Ashraf]

Hi @sn

I think you have misunderstood something.

AD -> Active Directory is a type of LDAP directory service.

The documentation is the same. Just that JIRA has a quick template for Microsoft Active Directory

It is all in the documentation link i shared above -> https://confluence.atlassian.com/adminjiraserver/connecting-to-an-ldap-directory-938847052.html 

[sn]

hi @Fazila Ashraf,  what I meant was we use LDAP for only user authentications and have JIRA user groups for permissions.  Now,  want to migrate to AD for user authentication and permissions.    good information , thanks!