Grouping mechanics
Group and membership data is where identity inheritance mistakes are most common; this page enforces explicit handling for add/remove and hierarchy reconciliation.
Practical controls
- Normalize membership payloads before writes.
- Reject ambiguous nested group cycles.
- Keep reconciliation jobs bounded by explicit chunk sizes.
Scale considerations
For large enterprises, incremental membership deltas perform better than full rewrites and reduce connector saturation risk.
Scale and reconciliation
For large directories, apply chunked membership diffs and store connector sequence numbers so replay can resume from the last committed chunk.
- Keep membership updates under bounded batch size.
- Log source-of-truth change timestamp and operator identity.
- Reject ambiguous add/remove operations against the same member in one window.