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Separate User Store and Provisioning Directories

The following figure shows a separate user store and Provisioning Directory. In this figure:

• A CA Identity Manager administrator uses an admin task that edits a user in the user store, which affects the Provisioning Directory.

  This change may also update an endpoint (such as an email server) which has a connector to the Provisioning Server.

  A change made in the Provisioning Server (or an endpoint with a connector to the Provisioning Server) updates the CA Identity Manager user store and Provisioning Directory.

For example, an endpoint, such as a Human Resources application, might update the email addresses of users.