User Sync Setup Instructions

For detailed, step-by-step instructions on how to enable synchronization across a publish farm, see User Synchronization.

User sync in the background

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  • vlt package

    It is a zip file of all the changes done on a Publisher, which must be distributed across publishers. Changes on a publisher generate events that are picked by the change event listener. This creates a vlt package that contains all the changes.

  • distribution package

    It contains distribution information for Sling. That is information about where the content must be distributed, and when it was distributed last.

What Happens When …

Publish Site from Communities Sites Console

On Author, when a community site is published from the Communities Sites console, the effect is to replicate the associated pages, and Sling distribute the dynamically created community user groups, including their membership.

User is Created or Edits Profile on Publish

By design, users and profiles created in the Publish environment (such as by self-registration, social-login, LDAP authentication) do not appear in the Author environment.

When the topology is a publish farm and user sync has been correctly configured, the user and user profile is synchronized across the publish farm using Sling distribution.