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Synchronize Active Directory groups

Synchronize ActiveDirectory groups

If you have imported Active directory groups into Tableau Server, You have to periodically sync them to get the users reflected to Tableau Server.


  1. Single-site: Click Settings> General.   For Multisite: In the site menu, click Manage All Sites and then click Settings> General.
  2. Scroll down the page to Active Directory Synchronization, and then select Synchronize Active Directory groups on a regular schedule.
  3. Select the frequency and time of synchronization.
  4. Click Save.




You can view the results of synchronization jobs in the Background Tasks for Non Extracts administrative view. Queue Active Directory Groups Sync is the task that queues and indicates the number of Sync Active Directory Group tasks to be run.


  1. Single-site: Click Status. For Multisite: In the site menu, click Manage All Sites and then click Status.
  2. Click the Background Tasks for Non Extracts link.
  3. Set the Task filter to include Queue Active Directory Groups Sync and Sync Active Directory Group.
  4. You can quickly navigate to this administrative view by clicking the View synchronization activity link in the Settings page for the server.


you can set the minimum site role for group users to be applied during Active Directory synchronization using Groups -Details Page.


  1. In a site, click Groups.
  2. On the Groups page, select a group.
  3. Click Actions > Minimum Site Role.
  4. Select the minimum site role, and then click Change Site 


Note: If you are removing a user from AD , The user will not be removed in Tableau. You have to manually delete the user from Tableau by reassigning the user content 

Tableau Backgrounder process is used for the AD Sync and in a serial operation.A parallel processing helps for better performance. To enable parallel backgrounder processing for group synchronization, open TSM CLI and enter the following commands:


tsm configuration set -k backgrounder.enable_parallel_adsync -v true
tsm pending-changes apply





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