# User Permission Synchronization in Workspace Search

**URL:** <https://discuss.elastic.co/t/user-permission-synchronization-in-workspace-search/296806>\
**Category:** Elastic Search\
**Tags:** elastic-workplace-search\
**Created:** [February 10, 2022, 7:07am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/user-permission-synchronization-in-workspace-search/296806 "2022-02-10T07:07:06Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 5\
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**Author:** ![Dineshbabu\_Sekar](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/dineshbabu_sekar/32/101382_2.png) [@Dineshbabu\_Sekar](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Dineshbabu_Sekar)\
**Post date:** [February 10, 2022, 7:07am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/user-permission-synchronization-in-workspace-search/296806/1 "2022-02-10T07:07:06Z")

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How Users in Workspace are managed ..Does it managed through Active directory and by another source? and How frequent are user permission are synced up and gets reflected

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**Author:** ![Sean\_Story](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/sean_story/32/69987_2.png) [@Sean\_Story](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Sean_Story)\
**Post date:** [February 10, 2022, 4:41pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/user-permission-synchronization-in-workspace-search/296806/2 "2022-02-10T16:41:18Z")

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Hi @Dineshbabu_Sekar ,

Sounds like you might be looking for this documentation: [Set up Enterprise Search with Active Directory user authentication | Elastic Enterprise Search Documentation [8.0] | Elastic](https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/enterprise-search/current/active-directory-auth.html)

or perhaps this more generic section, if you're not tied to Active Directory specifically: [Manage users and access to Enterprise Search | Elastic Enterprise Search Documentation [8.0] | Elastic](https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/enterprise-search/current/users-access.html#user-access-configure)

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**Author:** ![Dineshbabu\_Sekar](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/dineshbabu_sekar/32/101382_2.png) [@Dineshbabu\_Sekar](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Dineshbabu_Sekar)\
**Post date:** [February 16, 2022, 3:43am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/user-permission-synchronization-in-workspace-search/296806/3 "2022-02-16T03:43:26Z")

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Thanks Will Look in to it

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**Author:** ![Robin\_Vanderschueren](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/robin_vanderschueren/32/102370_2.png) [@Robin\_Vanderschueren](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Robin_Vanderschueren)\
**Post date:** [March 1, 2022, 1:13pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/user-permission-synchronization-in-workspace-search/296806/4 "2022-03-01T13:13:25Z")

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This does not really cover an answer to the question how permissions are handled, no? I'm also trying to figure this out and for me it is not yet clear if it is possible to sync permissions when you use SAML to authenticate users from AzureAD.

When I use federated authentication with AzureAD, the users are not visible in enterprise search so I'm just wondering how we sync permissions for example for Sharepoint Online. Do I just use the username field of sharepoint that is mapped to the username field in enterprise search to create the role bindings? Could you maybe provide me an example on the API call that is necessary for this?

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**Author:** ![system](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/original/3X/1/a/1ac57faf039f6b580b3f104ef42a2a89e41014de.png) [@system](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/system)\
**Post date:** [October 31, 2022, 2:48am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/user-permission-synchronization-in-workspace-search/296806/5 "2022-10-31T02:48:07Z")

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Closed on October 31, 2022, 2:48am UTC

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