Synching with multiple Windows ADs

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John A. Sullivan III wrote:
> Hello, all.  I know one can only have one sync agreement with an AD.
> However, is it possible to have a sync agreement with multiple ADs.  We
> would like to synchronize the top of our tree with our main,
> multi-tenant AD and then synchronize lower levels of the domains with
> separate domains controlled by our clients.  Thus, the same users and
> groups are synchronized to two different AD trees.
>
> As much as we dearly want this to work, I think it is asking for trouble
> as the GUID from AD is passed back to LDAP as part of the
> synchronization.  Since these GUIDs will be different for the same user
> from different AD trees, is this a problem?
>
> I know that sounds a bit convoluted so let me give an example.  I have a
> user Joe in LDAP.  I synchronize him to MyAD so he is MyAD\Joe.  I also
> synchronize him to TheirAD so he is also TheirAD\Joe.  The GUID for MyAD
> \Joe is different from the GUID for TheirAD\Joe even though it is the
> same LDAP Joe.  Is that a problem? Thanks - John
>   
Yes, the sync key is the ntUniqueID == AD objectGUID
Yes, it will be a problem, if you want the single account in RHDS to 
sync to both accounts in AD.
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