# IDS Connection for MiVB Users and Contacts from Active Directory

You can use an IDS connection to synchronize MiVoice Business users and contacts from an Active Directory server, and to provide Active Directory authentication of MiCollab users.

- To synchronize users and contacts from the Active Directory server, create an IDS connection that specifies a query for records of type |(ObjectClass=user)(ObjectClass=contact). In addition, any MiVoice Business record that contains the MiCollab "Contact" role is also added to the MiCollab server database as a contact record.

- To synchronize users only from the Active Directory server, create an IDS connection that specifies a query for records of type: (ObjectClass=user).

- To enable Active Directory authentication of MiCollab users, check the Enable authentication box.

Below is an example of the IDS Connection settings required to synchronize users and contacts from an Active Directory server with authentication enabled:

Figure 1: IDS Connection for MiVB Users and Contacts from Active Directory

Parent topic: IDS Connections