Confluence Docs 3.0 : Confluence integration with LDAP and Active Directory FAQs This page last changed on May 28, 2009 by david.soul@atlassian.com. Find an answer to one of these questions below: Can Confluence make distinctions between security and distribution groups, or group types? Can group memberships be retrieved from multi-domain forests? Can Confluence support multiple Active Directory repositories? Can Confluence handle nested groups? ## Can Confluence make distinctions between security and distribution groups, or group types? No, Confluence has no group types. However, you can configure Confluence to only recognise some of these groups over others. For example, you can configure Confluence to only recognise distribution groups. this is done by adjusting the `groupSearchFilter` in your atlassian-user.xml file. ## Can group memberships be retrieved from multi-domain forests? Yes, you can do this by configuring multiple repositories: one for each domain. More instructions on how to do this can be found here. ## Can Confluence support multiple Active Directory repositories? Yes. ## Can Confluence handle nested groups? No, each child group must be individually specified instead. You may wish to vote towards support for nested groups at USER-101.

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