Service Types

Microsoft Products

Account Management

(Read-only operations)

New: Yes

OOTB: No

Provides read capabilities for Active Directory entities like Users, Groups and Organization Unit

AD Service2

(Write operations)

New: Yes*

OOTB: No

Provides write capabilities to Active Directory such as

• Create, update or disable a User Account
• Add or remove a user from groups
• Create, update, or delete a group
• Add or remove users from a groups

Service instance is normally registered by the installer, can add additional domains

Provides the ability to lookup and manage users and groups in Microsoft Azure Active Directory.

Provides methods to create, update, delete and list entities with Microsoft Dynamics CRM

Internal service used to retrieve or add CRM attributes or to delete CRM entities. This is used in conjunction with the CRM service

Connects to a Microsoft Exchange server using its REST API. This service uses OAuth authorization and allows you to integrate with Exchange Online whether you have Nintex Automation or K2 Cloud.

Enable or Disable user Mailboxes

Integrates with Exchange Calendars, Tasks and Meetings. Calendar: Create new meeting or new appointment in the user’s calendar Task: Create new Exchange task for a user. Note: this is not the same as a task! Meeting: Get conflict information for a specific time or get a suggested meeting time based on time frame and meeting duration

Internal Service used to retrieve Exchange information

No

You must use the SharePoint Registration Wizard

Internal service used to query SharePoint for User Information

Expose SQL database tables, stored procedures, and views as SmartObjects. The available methods will depend on the type of SQL entity being exposed.

Service Instances are configured per Database

Other Products

Exposes salesforce.com entities for a specific account using a WSDL provided by SalesForce.com

Uses SSO for authentication.

Exposes salesforce.com entities for a specific account

Uses OAuth for authentication.

Integrates with DocuSign envelopes, documents, recipients, and folders. Note that this service is configured with the DocuSign Feature Activation page in the Management Site.

Integrates with Nintex AssureSign through SmartObjects.

Exposes Oracle database entities (Tables, Views, Functions, Packages and Stored Procedures) as Service Objects. Note: The Broker uses the ODP.NET data connector. Please refer to the Oracle Documentation for additional supported version information. SSO authentication is not available for the Oracle Service Broker.

Nintex K2 connect

(Only available if Nintex K2 connect is installed)

When Nintex K2 connect is installed, SAP BAPIs can be exposed as SmartObjects, allowing for no-code consumption of SAP entities in workflows, reports and supported user interfaces. Note: Only RFC-accessible systems and modules will be available for use. See https://help.k2.com/en/connectmatrix.aspx for more information

Generic Service Types

Expose .NET assemblies as Service Objects. Supports serialization and deserialization of complex types.

Expose WCF (WSDL and MEX) Endpoints as Service Objects. Supports serialization and deserialization of complex types.

Expose Web Services (WSDL) as Service Objects. Supports serialization and deserialization of complex types.

Allows the product to interact with OData-compliant web service endpoints using .NET serialization/de-serialization.

Allows the product to integrate with REST endpoints.

Service Types

Internal service used by the product to create and maintain identity provider configuration and schedules.

Internal service used by the product for Package and Deployment functionality.

Internal service used by the product for management functions.

Internal service used by the product for licensing operations and license audit reporting.

Internal service used by the product for converting HTML or dynamic URLs to PDFs.

Internal service used by the product to work with service instances and SmartObjects.

Provides runtime identity synchronization between an identity provider like Active Directory and the K2 identity cache.

Provides methods for returning users, groups, roles and security label information from the available security providers.

Provides the data used to generate workflow reports and (optionally) exposes reporting SmartObjects for specific workflow definitions.

Provides runtime services for workflows, such as starting new processes or opening and completing worklist items for specific events in the workflow.

* Configuration processes may differ, see the linked topics for more information.

** Existing service key values are editable.

Deprecated Service Types

CRM 4 Entity

Exposed CRM entities (in a Microsoft Dynamics CRM 4 environment) as SmartObjects.

CRM 4 Functions

Enabled the product to interface with Microsoft Dynamics 4 CRM and was used in conjunction with the CRM 4 Entity Service

SharePoint Service V2

Provided read and write capabilities to read, update, delete, list and add attachments to SharePoint 2010 and earlier libraries and Lists.

SharePoint Content

Enabled integration with the SharePoint 2010 CSOM (Client-Side Object Model) API to manage content in SharePoint, such as list items and documents.

SharePoint Management

Made calls to the SharePoint 2010 CSOM (client side object model) to manage lists, libraries, templates and subsites.

Configure a Cloud Storage service instance to manage files and folders inDropbox.

Configure a Cloud Storage service instance to manage files and folders inGoogle Drive.

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