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The Organization Service provides a mechanism to receive notifications when:
A User is created, deleted, modified, enabled or disabled.
A Group is created, deleted or modified.
A Membership is created or removed.
This mechanism is very useful to cascade some actions when the organization model is modified. For example, it is currently used to:
Initialize the personal portal pages.
Initialize the personal calendars, address books and mail accounts.
Create drives and personal areas.