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title: Selecting a datastore for customer identities
description: PingFederate stores customer identities in PingDirectory, improving the flexibility, scale, and security of your user data. Follow these steps to connect PingFederate to a directory to store identity and profile data and expose the data to all applications and channels through LDAPv3.
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revdate: July 10, 2024
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# Selecting a datastore for customer identities

PingFederate stores customer identities in PingDirectory, improving the flexibility, scale, and security of your user data. Follow these steps to connect PingFederate to a directory to store identity and profile data and expose the data to all applications and channels through LDAPv3.

## About this task

Using the **Data Store Configuration** tab, connect your LDAP datastore to PingFederate.

## Steps

1. Go to **Authentication > Policies > Local Identity Profiles**.

2. On the **Data Store Configuration** tab, click **Configure Data Store**.

   ### Result:

   This will open a **Data Store** window.

3. On the **Data Store Type** tab, enter a name in the **Name** field, and from the **Type** list, select **Directory (LDAP)**.

4. Click **Next.**

   If you have not yet created an LDAP datastore to connect PingFederate to your PingDirectory or if you want to review your LDAP datastore settings, click **Manage Data Store**.

## Related links

* [Setting up PingDirectory for customer identities](pf_setting_up_pd_for_customer_identit.html)