UMRA – SIS Student Information System Import Active Directory

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PowerSchool Student Information System SIS To Active Directory
http://activedirectoryadmin.blogspot.com/2009/07/umra-powercampus-erp-active-directory.html

Destiny Student Information System SIS To Active Directory
http://activedirectoryadmin.blogspot.com/2009/07/umra-destiny-sis-active-directory.html

Zangle Student Information System SIS To Active Directory
http://activedirectoryadmin.blogspot.com/2009/07/umra-zangle-sis-active-directory.html

Aeires Student Information System SIS To Active Directory
http://activedirectoryadmin.blogspot.com/2009/07/umra-aeries-sis-active-directory.html

UMRA – SIS Student Information System Import Active Directory

This blog is going to be something a little different from my other previous blogs that main focus on UMRA and its COM Object Methods. Creating web portals with UMRA is quite popular however there is a completely different side to UMRA that a lot of our clients are utilizing UMRA for. UMRA has the ability to sync up your current Student Information System SIS to active directory. Now, you might be thinking this is quite the huge task, however, with UMRA this task becomes possible to put on a automated schedule. Now, depending on what SIS you have PowerSChool, Destiny, Zangle, Aeires etc. you can create your UMRA Automation Sync to mimic the same logic you do now on a daily, weekly, or monthly basis when you manage your student or staff active directory accounts. Now, for this blog I will just focus on the student accounts, however to UMRA a active directory is the same, so it being a student account or staff won’t matter, but your script logic would change. UMRA has the ability either connect directly to your SIS database, or even getting a CSV dump of your SIS data, and using that as your sync data. Below is a quick overview of some of the features you can do when you’re creating a new UMRA SIS Sync to Active Directory.

If you want more details on a student information sync to active directory on different systems, visit some of the links at the top of the page. These cover most SIS systems, however, if there is one you don’t see, please feel free to email me.

Student SIS Account Creation.
UMRA has the ability to check your SIS and make sure, student accounts that need to have an account in Active Directory do. Upon creation of a user, you can create them in the correct OU based on your SIS information, ensure your username’s are either student ID’s or some type of unique identifier, set temporary passwords, or flag the account to change upon next successful login.

Exchange 2000 2003 2007 Email Creation
UMRA also has the ability to create mailbox for students at the same time as a student account is being created. UMRA can create the student mailbox on specific mailstores depending on your SIS data. Now email dosent need to pertain to just Microsoft Exchange, you can also provision accounts on google, and hotmail using either UMRA Command Line Interface CLI or PowerShell Script INtergration.

Now this is just a quick overview of some of the features that UMRA can do when syncing up your SIS with Active Directory. Keep in mind that once your UMRA script is completed, you can now put it on a scheduler and have it run at your specific interval, so as your SIS data changes, it will in turn reflect those changes down to Active Directory. I hope this helps some of you out there if you are going to an approach like this, and again these are just some of the features, UMRA has way more then what is posted, if you want to read more on these topics don’t forget to visit my other blog http://www.activedirectoryadmin.blogspot.com/