Patent ID: 7984482

Claim:
A method of synchronizing a plurality of directory servers provided in communication with each other in a group communication system, directory servers performing Global Account Lockout (GAL) using an Ordered Message Service (OMS) having OMS managers, the method compromising: performing a bind operation; performing a password change operation; in a Directory Server (DS) that had been disconnected from the plurality of directory servers in the group communication system, updating a password changes in a change log of the DS that had been disconnected from the plurality of directory servers, wherein said instructions for updating comprises: providing, by said OMS Manager of the DS that had been disconnected, a temporary group through which synchronization with a Leader DS in the main group will occur, sending, by said OMS Manager of the DS that had been disconnected, a sync message to the OMS group, listening, by the OMS Manager of the DS that had been disconnected, on the temporary group for sync messages, receiving, at an OMS Manager Leader DS, the sync message, sending, by an OMS Manager of the Leader DS, blocks of change log records as sync messages to the temporary group, receiving, by said OMS Manager of the DS that had been disconnected, the blocks of sync messages, using, in the DS that had been disconnected, said blocks of sync messages to bring into global consistency the change log of the DS that had been disconnected, and discarding, by the DS that had been disconnected, all messages from an OMS group up to and including the sync message.