Release notes for AD Sync Tool

Zoom provides up-to-date release notes for the AD Sync Tool. This article contains information about recent changes to the AD Sync Tool, including new and enhanced features, updates to existing features, and bug fixes. In addition, you can find information about upcoming changes (if available) and see a full history of updates made in the last two years by release date.

Upcoming Release

Details about upcoming releases will be posted as they become available.

Released

Note: The information in the past release notes may have been superseded by subsequent release notes. Please review all current release notes carefully.

November 5, 2024 version 1.7

Resolved issues

• Minor bug fixes
• Security enhancements

May 8, 2024 version 1.6

Resolved issues

• Minor bug fixes
• Security enhancements
• Resolved an issue regarding an outdated scope name when creating the Server-to-Server OAuth app for the tool on the Zoom App Marketplace

November 3, 2023 version 1.5

Changes to existing features

• New AD Sync Tool version 1.5 incompatible with previous versions
  The AD Sync Tool version 1.5 can’t use the database file generated by previous versions. To use version 1.5 successfully, admins must reconfigure the tool. We recommend that you keep your previous AD Sync Tool and related database files to prevent any issues when using the new version.

New and enhanced features

• Ability to sync user groups
  Admins can sync user groups to Zoom with the AD Sync Tool, and use those groups to manage settings and feature enablement.

Resolved issues

• Minor bug fixes
• Security enhancements

September 25, 2022 version 1.4

New and enhanced features

• Support for Server to Server OAuth
  The AD Sync Tool supports Server to Server OAuth, to replace the deprecated JWT app.

Resolved issues

• Security enhancement

April 14, 2022 version 1.3.49

Resolved issues

• Minor bug fixes

March 27, 2022 version 1.2.47

New and enhanced features

• Support for running automatically in the background as a service
  Admins can choose if they want the AD Sync Tool to run as a service in the background.
• Help and version commands added to the tool
  Admins can run the tool with the following commands to output help and version information for the AD Sync Tool:
  • -h or -help: Displays help information
  • -v or -version: Displays version information

January 29, 2022 version 1.1.39

Note: The original release date for this release was January 26, 2022.

Resolved issues

• Minor bug fixes
• Security enhancements

August 7, 2021 version 1.0.23

Changes to existing features

• Simplified run commands and start mode provided
  The user interface and commands for the AD Sync Tool have been simplified. The following commands are available: Sync, Test, Start, Setup, Reset, Monitor, Migrate, Preview.

New and enhanced features

• Support for multiple LDAP servers
  The AD Sync Tool supports syncing users from multiple LDAP servers to the Zoom account.
• Support for multiple LDAP groups
  The AD Sync Tool supports syncing users from multiple LDAP groups to the Zoom account.
• Support for additional user attributes
  The following user attributes are supported: Phone Number, Job Title, Company, Cost Center, Employee Unique ID.

Resolved issues

• Minor bug fixes
• Security enhancements

August 28, 2019 version 0.6

New and enhanced features

• Updated README file
  The README file has been updated AD account and AD settings sections.

Resolved issues

• Minor bug fixes

August 5, 2019 version 0.5

New and enhanced features

• Switch for creating or updating existing users
  Admins can now choose if they want to create users or update existing users via a switch.

Resolved issues

• Resolved an issue where the AD Sync tool was not ignoring case with email addresses
• Resolved an issue where the diff command could not be used
• Resolved an issue where a failure message showed incorrectly when activating, deactivating, or deleting users
• Resolved an issue where a NullPointException error showed incorrectly when syncing
• Minor bug fixes

May 12, 2019 version 0.4.0

New and enhanced features

• Support organizational units
• Update the sample file
• Update the markdown instructions
• Update the Windows Shell batch
• Support encrypted and decrypted passwords

November 21, 2018 version 0.3.0

New and enhanced features

• Provide the Command Runner
• Provide the toString and hash support for bean
• Provide the Override Log Method
• Provide the Diff Report

July 10, 2017 version 0.2.0

New and enhanced features

• Update to the unique identifier in AD
  The unique identifier that the AD sync tool uses has been changed from distinguishedName to objectGUID. This change makes it easier to find deleted user, and supports the ability to rename users from AD and change their email at the same time.
• Filter synced users by group
  A new parameter is available in the DataSource for LDAP section of the application.properties file. Update the value of the spring.ldap.user.group with the full DN for a user group. If you specify a DN for a user group, only members in the specified group will be synced to Zoom. If this value is empty, users from all groups will be synced to Zoom. This value is empty by default.

May 20, 2017 version 0.1.0

The AD Sync to Zoom is a command line tool that you run within your Microsoft Active Directory environment. This tool can:

• Identify users in your Active Directory system who do not currently have Zoom accounts, and provision accounts for them.
• Delete or deactivate Zoom accounts for users who no longer exist in your Active Directory system.
• Modify information in the Zoom account if it is updated in your Active Directory system.

Note: Contact Zoom Support to enable this tool on your account.