# UserFederation AD rest api

**URL:** <https://forum.keycloak.org/t/userfederation-ad-rest-api/18271>\
**Category:** Getting advice\
**Tags:** admin-rest\
**Created:** [November 3, 2022, 4:13pm UTC](https://forum.keycloak.org/t/userfederation-ad-rest-api/18271 "2022-11-03T16:13:30Z")\
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**Author:** ![yougui68](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/y/df705f/32.png) [@yougui68](https://forum.keycloak.org/u/yougui68)\
**Post date:** [November 3, 2022, 4:13pm UTC](https://forum.keycloak.org/t/userfederation-ad-rest-api/18271/1 "2022-11-03T16:13:30Z")

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Hello ,  
I have tried Keycloak 16.1.1 with postgres db where all my users, roles groups … are in the db, I can retreive them perfectly using keycloak api .  
right now I’ trying user-federation with Active directory instead, the authentication works fine but to get users from keycloak api with same url generating errors  
’ {  
“headers”: {  
“normalizedNames”: {},  
“lazyUpdate”: null  
},  
“status”: 403,  
“statusText”: “Forbidden”,  
“url”: “[https://myxperience-recette.acedigitale.com/keycloak/auth/admin/realms/xperienceV2/users](https://myxperience-recette.acedigitale.com/keycloak/auth/admin/realms/xperienceV2/users)”,  
“ok”: false,  
“name”: “HttpErrorResponse”,  
“message”: “Http failure response for [https://myxperience-recette.acedigitale.com/keycloak/auth/admin/realms/xperienceV2/users:](https://myxperience-recette.acedigitale.com/keycloak/auth/admin/realms/xperienceV2/users:) 403 Forbidden”,  
“error”: {  
“error”: “unknown\_error”  
}  
} ’  
did I miss something ?  
thank you in advance