GSuite - retrospective sync of user accounts with AD?

[GreyWhirly]

Hi there,

 

We have our GSuite setup and pupil accounts created (except for this year's new intake) but as yet we don't have anything linked with AD.

Going forward I would like to be able to do this and for our pupils to have individual logins to AD which are then synced with their GSuite login so that all they need to do is login to the AD and they can access Google Classroom with no further authentication required. Is that possible?

 

What is the best way to do this? Is there any way to retrospectively create AD accounts to reflect the GSuite users I already have - or is that a backwards thing that cannot be done?

 

If that's not possible, is there a way to prepopulate the school domain name when accessing the Google Classroom page, so that the pupils only need to type in the first part of their GSuite username and not have to type the @DomAin.co.uk bit? I have seen something somewhere about adding something to the Google URL .. but now can't find that post! Is there something I can add onto the classroom.google.com URL to prepopulate the domain name?

 

Thanks

[caffrey]

Probably need sso for your first question

 

You can export users from gsuite as a csv, then import into AD I guess, the ad and gsuite accounts are linked via the email address field in AD , preferably you should be looking at google cloud directory sync and just manage your users from AD

 

For classroom it's https://classroom.google.com/a/yourdomain.tld

[mavhc]

If you set up https://support.google.com/a/answer/106368?hl=en and https://support.google.com/a/answer/2611859?hl=en then it matches on email addresses with existing accounts. Users have to change their password on AD for it to sync them, set password min length in AD to be >0, and then expire everyone's password, they can pick the same password again. Use this as a chance to force staff to have less crap passwords.

 

Once someone's signed in once that profile will remember their username, so that helps a bit.