About creating CloudLink tasks for Google Sync

Last published : Apr 17, 2026
When you have completed the configuration of CloudLink, you can create and manage tasks to perform synchronization actions between your Active Directory Google accounts and Arctera Insight Archiving
You should create a CloudLink Google Sync task to synchronize to Arctera Insight Archiving the same Active Directory users and groups that you have synchronized to G Suite Enterprise with GCDS.
Every time you run the Google Cloud Directory Sync (GCDS) tool to synchronize Active Directory users to G Suite, you should aim to run a CloudLink Google sync task to perform an equivalent synchronization to Arctera Insight Archiving. It is your responsibility to coordinate the runs of the GCDS tool and the CloudLink Google sync task, so that the Arctera Insight Archiving accounts keep in step with the G Suite accounts.
You create tasks in the CloudLink Task Manager, from where you specify:
  • The Active Directory users, groups, or Organizational Units to act on
  • The synchronization actions to perform
Google Sync tasks run only once. They cannot be scheduled to run recurrently. If you want to repeat a task's actions you can copy or edit the completed task in Task Manager, and then run the copy.
Note the following important points regarding CloudLink's Google Sync tasks:
  • If a task synchronizes an account, and the account is then deleted in Active Directory, a subsequent task makes no changes to the archive account.
  • If a task synchronizes an Organizational Unit, and a user then leaves that Organizational Unit, a subsequent task that targets the same Organizational Unit makes no changes to the archive account.
If necessary you can disable archive accounts manually from the Management Console.