fairm010 Posted October 13, 2014 Posted October 13, 2014 Hi @nickbro, Is there any way I can pull all photographs of staff and students from SIMS and upload them into AD to use with HAP? At present there are no defining unique features between SIMS and AD such as UPN's to distinguish who is who, other than First Name and Last Name. Currently I have uploaded the staff manually. Matt
FN-GM Posted October 13, 2014 Posted October 13, 2014 If you use Salamander AD it will allow you to do this. Works a treat. 1
fairm010 Posted October 13, 2014 Author Posted October 13, 2014 I'll give that a shot! Is it free? Can you linky?
FN-GM Posted October 13, 2014 Posted October 13, 2014 (edited) Its not free no, but its not expensive. It will export data from SIMS and populate into AD. It creates and disables accounts automatically. SalamanderSoft Limited - Salamander Active Directory @rpwillis is the guy to speak to regarding this. Edited October 13, 2014 by FN-GM 1
nickbro Posted October 13, 2014 Posted October 13, 2014 the AD employeeID = SIMS UPN. Photo stored in jpegPhoto
rpwillis Posted October 14, 2014 Posted October 14, 2014 We also have a free utility which exports photos from Sims. SalamanderSoft Limited - Free Utilities You could then import then into AD using scripting or find another utility to load into AD.
fairm010 Posted October 14, 2014 Author Posted October 14, 2014 Thanks Richard, I saw that utility but the concept of matching nearly 500 faces to names I didn't like. What filenames does the utility give the photographs?
rpwillis Posted October 14, 2014 Posted October 14, 2014 By default, admission number for students and Staff Code for staff, but there is a switch to make it save as person_id.
fairm010 Posted October 14, 2014 Author Posted October 14, 2014 My scripting is non existent but I wonder how I could link admission number to Display Name and then import the photographs according to Admission Number.
pcstru Posted October 14, 2014 Posted October 14, 2014 My scripting is non existent but I wonder how I could link admission number to Display Name and then import the photographs according to Admission Number. I have used excel to manipulate data from the MIS to get to an AD attribute (usually sAMAaccountname) and then powershell to populate the student ID into the employeeID in AD for matches on that. I also use powershell to populate staff photographs using a similar technique.
nickbro Posted October 14, 2014 Posted October 14, 2014 I can't help sorry as I have my own C# app which pulls data out of SIMS (photo/first name/last name/form/upn/admission number) and fills in various AD fields
Edu-IT Posted October 14, 2014 Posted October 14, 2014 I can't help sorry as I have my own C# app which pulls data out of SIMS (photo/first name/last name/form/upn/admission number) and fills in various AD fields Would you share this @nickbro?
nickbro Posted October 14, 2014 Posted October 14, 2014 It uses a lot of hardcoded usernames/passwords, I'll have a look and see what I can do tomorrow though. Need to add some error handling to the SIMS Exchange app tomorrow in the same way my updater works.
nickbro Posted October 15, 2014 Posted October 15, 2014 Ok, here's my app for updating users, it's provided as is, edit the .config file to set some settingsUser Updater.zip
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