# IDS Connection for MiVoice MX-ONE Contacts

You can use an IDS connection to synchronize MiVoice MX-ONE contacts (not users) from an Active Directory server, and to provide LDAP authentication of MiCollab users. To synchronize contacts from Active Directory, create an IDS connection that specifies a query for Active Directory records of type (ObjectClass=contact). In addition, any Active Directory record that contains the MiCollab "Contact" role is also added to the MiCollab server database as a contact record.

Note: To configure an IDS connection to provide only contact synchronization, check the Enable synchronization box and clear the Enable authentication box. To configure a connection for to provide both contact synchronization and Active Directory authentication, check the Enable synchronization box and clear the Authentication only check box.

The following is an example of an IDS connection that provides both contact synchronization and LDAP authentication of MiCollab users:

Figure 1: IDS Connection for MiVoice MX-ONE with Contacts from Active Directory