Administration of pupils and staff accounts

[Cegruffydd]

Hi

How many administrators should a school have where the setting up/ maintenance etc of email accounts for staff and pupils pupils are involved? This includes a list of all account names, passwords and access to emails themselves.

Thanks

[dmartin1018]

Depends how big your school is and how big your team is. I'm in a MAT with a large secondary/sixth form and a small primary. There's myself (head of IT Services), senior tech and 2x junior techs. Each has a more restricted set of rights based on role and skill set.

 

If you're asking because you want to get rid of password resets then you can use impero (if you have it) or a free alternative called password control (you need to do some permissions tweaks in AD to make it work).

 

I have messed about setting up custom mmc's for certain users E. G exams staff before and delegated access to they can only see or amend bits that are relevant to them but I found the above solutions mycb easier and reliable to implement.

[GrumbleDook]

I would question having lists of passwords and access to mailboxes by default. The age groups involved would be a factor in that (i.e. within KS1, maybe KS2, but not higher) and definitely not for staff!