UMRA – Student Information System Automation SIS at 6:05 PM

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UMRA – Student Information System Automation SIS

In my previous blog post’s I’ve talked about ways to setup a set of UMRA Automation projects to automate the creation, editing, etc of student accounts and or other Active Directory objects. The 2 main Student Information Systems I’ve covered are Aeries SIS and PowerSchool SIS. Both of these are very popular Student management systems. If you haven’t already please take a look at how you would setup such a UMRA Automation project to sync up either Aeries or Powerschool to Active Directory. Now if you reading this blog post and you haven’t seen some of my others, please take a look to see how flexable UMRA really is. However, for this blog post, keep In mind that UMRA Automation has the ability to sync up with your Student Information System, and provision your student accounts, everything from account creation, student moves, group memberships, home folder moves, home folder creations, active directory attribute changes or updates, email creation, and really any other work flow you might have for student accounts.

Aeries Student Information System Sync:
http://activedirectoryadmin.blogspot.com/2009/07/umra-aeries-sis-active-directory.html

PowerSchool Student Information System Sync:
http://activedirectoryadmin.blogspot.com/2009/05/umra-power-school-active-directory-sync.html

Now in both of those posts, I talk about if you have access to the student data directly, however in some cases, you might not have direct access to the Student Information Systems SIS data. Int his case, you can see if your provider will allow you to get a daily download or CSV for data to work from. This approach is most used if you are not hosting your own SIS, and you are doing off campus hosting. Now in the case you might not have the option to download a CSV of student data, you can ask your data provider if they will provide you with a view you can work from.

This was just a quick blog to show there are multiple way to get your Student Information System Sycd up to Active Directory with UMRA Automation.