Running GDCS for real (first time!)

[MrWu]

Hi all;

 

About to run GCDS for the first time live soon (we are moving away from Wonde and semi manually uploaded students to GC previously, have run through simulations and done a big tidy up..we will be using Salamander for GC

 

mostly he Sim Sync throughs lots of entries for staff and students :

 

Modify user 13: "[email protected]"

Change org to "Students"

Change stored unique identifier to "LXXXXXXXXXXXXXXp7Mg"

Add 1 new aliases

"[email protected]"

Remove 1 existing aliases

"[email protected]"

 

 

I presume this is all ok (GCDS is moving existing users to specified OU, linking it to a unqiue ID and removing old alias )

 

Also anyway of linking staff and students to Google created groups automatically?

 

thanks!

[jthompson]

Those user modifications look fine. You're correct in your assessment of them.

 

RE: the groups, I suspect you'd need to create and populate AD groups. Try creating an AD group and giving it a 'mail' attribute to match the address of the corresponding Google group (check your GCDS Groups config section to see what AD attirbutes it will be using for a group's display name, description, etc.). Simulate a sync in GCDS to see whether it's going to link the two and whether it will update your existing Google group with the properties and memberships of the new AD group.

[paulkerton]

Just curious as to why you're moving?

[MrWu]

Just curious as to why you're moving?

 

We felt that Wonde didnt have the coding options that Salamander had, plus we did have lots of issues last year when the classrooms got messed up.

So far,Salamander support has been great!