Understanding JIRA and Active Directory

[Mosh]

Hi all

Assuming I have 300 users in Active Directory and I want to buy JIRA server software for 100 users only... so how it works?
Each user takes 1 seat on his first login, so first 100 users who login takes all seats?

What if one user was login accidently and I want to remove him from jira's list of users? Is that possible?

Thank you

[Ivan Tovbin · Accepted solution]

Hi Mosh,

Not exactly. You can actually have as many users registered in Jira as you like. You license tier only dictates how many users can be given application access. More info in this documentation.

[Dzmitry Hryb _Deviniti_]

Hello Mosh,

Another way would be configuring the LDAP sync only to a subset of users, i.e. the jira-users group that you create in AD. This could also prevent performance issues in case of a large user database, and of course the Jira's internal directory would be cleaner :)

There's a fine piece of documentation by Atlassian explaining it: https://confluence.atlassian.com/adminjiraserver071/reducing-the-number-of-users-synchronized-from-ldap-to-jira-applications-802592352.html