Entra Contacts to Zammad User Sync
This workflow implements the automatic synchronization of Microsoft Entra contacts with the Zammad ticketing system users, ensuring that user information is updated in real-time, covering the management of new, updated, and deactivated users. By intelligently comparing data from both ends, it automatically identifies and processes changes in contacts, eliminating the tediousness of manual maintenance and improving data accuracy and consistency. It is suitable for IT support teams and enterprise administrators, enhancing service response speed and simplifying user lifecycle management, thereby boosting overall work efficiency.
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Workflow Name
Entra Contacts to Zammad User Sync
Key Features and Highlights
This workflow enables automatic synchronization between Microsoft Entra contacts and users in the Zammad ticketing system, ensuring real-time updates of user information within Zammad. It dynamically manages user additions, updates, and deactivations. The process intelligently compares data from both systems to automatically identify new contacts, existing users, and inactive users, performing create, update, and deactivate operations accordingly. This significantly enhances data consistency and user management efficiency.
Core Problems Addressed
- Eliminates the tedious manual maintenance of Zammad user information, improving data accuracy.
- Automatically syncs changes in Entra contacts, preventing communication and ticket processing delays caused by outdated information.
- Automatically identifies and deactivates inactive users, maintaining a clean and efficient Zammad user database.
Use Cases
- IT support teams needing to automatically manage service users in Zammad based on the Microsoft Entra directory.
- Organizations requiring consistent user data between their ticketing system and corporate directory to improve service response times.
- Scenarios demanding automated user lifecycle management to reduce manual operations and errors.
Main Workflow Steps
- Manually trigger the workflow to start synchronization.
- Retrieve all current user data from Zammad.
- Use Microsoft Graph API to fetch the list of Entra contacts.
- Filter and extract valid contact information, mapping it into Zammad user format.
- Merge Entra contacts with Zammad users, matching based on email addresses.
- Identify new contacts and automatically create corresponding users in Zammad.
- Identify existing users and update their personal information (name, phone number, email, etc.).
- Identify removed or inactive users and automatically deactivate them in Zammad.
- Complete synchronization to maintain data consistency across both platforms.
Systems and Services Involved
- Microsoft Entra (via Microsoft Graph API)
- Zammad Ticket Management System
- n8n Automation Workflow Platform
Target Audience and Value
- IT Operations and Support Teams: Achieve automatic user data synchronization, reducing manual maintenance efforts.
- Enterprise Administrators: Ensure timely and accurate user information in the ticketing system, enhancing service quality.
- Automation Engineers: Build enterprise-grade user synchronization workflows to simplify multi-system data management.
- Any organization requiring real-time synchronization between Microsoft Entra contacts and Zammad users to improve data consistency and management efficiency.
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