UMRA – Destiny SIS Active Directory Student Automation at 7:57 PM

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UMRA – Destiny SIS Active Directory Student Automation

Destiny Student Information System is one of the major leaders in helping schools manage their students, in a friendly fashion. However, like most Student Information Systems (SIS) they are great for the initial roll out of students, but when student accounts need to be created, updated, or managed on a daily basis there is no link to Active Directory, Exchange, Home Folders, etc. That is where UMRA Student Automation comes into play and bridges that gap, without the need of extra IT staff, or manage the students information. So, the typical UMRA Student Automation projects do for our clients can range from MASS import from Destiny to Active Directory, this can involve, creation of student accounts, creation of home folders, setting security on those home folders, creating exchange 2000 2003 2007 email account, and all doing this in one big sweep. But UMRA Student Automation doesn’t stop there, often your Destiny SIS is updated on a daily basies, so how can you ensure that if a student were to move schools, withdraw, or change names that these are reflected down to Active Directory in a timely manner? UMRA can handle that, yes you heard it right. UMRA not only has the ability to do MASS imports, exports, updates. But UMRA also has the ability to connect to your Destiny SIS, get all the students, and check this information against Active Directory. UMRA will ensure that the students who need to be in active directory are, move student who have changed locations etc. So as you can see, UMRA Student Automation is one of the best and most flexible ways to get your students from Destiny into AD, and then manage those students information on a hourly, nightly, etc. basis. Now, I know some of you might be asking what are the limitations of UMRA Student Automation projects. Now, that’s a tuff question to answer, since UMRA has the ability to create, edit, modify, move any active directory object, the possibilities are endless. Below is a quick overview of how UMRA can handle student account changes.

Student Moves Schools (Example Work Flow Process)
Student Moves Schools From Seattle To Federal Way High School (Updated In Destiny SIS)
>Strip Current Group Memberships
>Reapply Correct Group Memberships for new school and cources
>Move Home/Profile Folders to new file server and reset security permissions
>Move exchange mail box from one mailstore to another
>Move account from old OU to new OU
>Log All changes to Account to a Access, MSSQL, MYSQL etc. database
>(Optional) Email changes to Staff as FYI

Above is just a quick overview of one of the many ways you can really take control of your UMRA Student Automation project. These changes will happen all behind the scenes on your specific interval. No need to manually do all these processes by hand anymore. So if you haven’t already downloaded the trial version of UMRA do so, so you can see how it can benefit your Destiny SIS.