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The new provisioning framework facilitates real time and nightly full sync provisioning of the email roles to LSoft. There are many supported provisioning targets, but in this case we are provisioning the SQL tables. Provisioning “metadata” is information on the group (or entity) which informs the target of characteristics about the group. Here is an example for an email list member role:
In this case the metadata is filled out automatically by the GSH template after the approval so users do not need to be bothered with it, but in other provisioning use cases, users might be setting things like this on provisionable objects.
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