DanielFew

Hello, We're trying to do a single pupil import of a user defined field. If it works, we'll do it for the others. The summary screen before clicking import does say under Status 'IMPORT UDF'. However the Import Results are saying 'Not imported'. We are using the latest version (2.4.11.0). Does anyone know why this might be happening? Thanks, Daniel

Much better way to describe them, service accounts. I knew device accounts didn't sound right. So I suppose really considering we only have a few for each, there's no need again to split into Sub OU's and just have all Service Accounts in one.

Sorry, 'they' being the other IT Support Tech and IT Manager. Whenever I need to change settings on a user, I always search for them anyway. I'll talk to them and see why they think splitting them in necessary, as it would definitely make AD a lot more organised.

I've heard of EduGeek before, but never posted or looked much into it. I need to start using it more often... nice to hear other people's views and how they get around problems.

I understand what you're saying. I think Teaching Departments they would want kept as it is split into departments. However definitely for support where we have Exams, Finance, Sec could all definitely be combined into Admin. My aim, as you mentioned though, is to simplify it. At the moment we have users everywhere and anything outside of the main school staff, there's no standard for usernames. Some are This_Username, some are ThatUsername, others are That.Username, some are just ThUsr, so I want to try and standardize it.

Thanks for your input. SchoolName > Accounts > Devices are for accounts assigned to a device rather then a person. For example, ipad_wifi so the ipads have a login to connect etc. External Users do have logins, and I wanted to make sure they are split from Internal so we can make our VLE use Internal. Apparently there's no other way, plus we have a fair amount of Internal and External users, so is it good to keep them separated? Teaching Staff vs Support Staff, we have about 100 in each, again is it not better to keep them seperated? Otherwise you'd end up with a lot of users in one OU? Also, we would create sub OU's such as English, Maths, Science in Teaching and IT Support, Admin, SEN in Support Staff.

I'm currently looking at re-doing out Active Directory structure as it's becoming messy over the years. I was thinking of the below, but can anyone give input as to any suggestions or changes. I'm laying it out as I have so I can split Internal / External Users for VLE access etc. At the moment it feels like I'm wasting a lot of OU's, eg. you must go to School Name, Accounts, Users, Internal, Staff, Teaching Staff, Department Name, User just to get to a staff account. -- School Name ------ Accounts ------------ Devices ------------------ Wi-Fi ------------------ Tablets ------------ Users ------------------ Internal ------------------------ Staff ------------------------------ Teaching Staff ---------------------------------- English ---------------------------------- Maths ---------------------------------- Science etc. ------------------------------ Support Staff ---------------------------------- IT Support ---------------------------------- SEN ---------------------------------- Admins ---------------------------------- Science Tech ------------------------ Students ------------------------------ [ Year of Entry ] ------------------------------ [ Year of Entry ] ------------------------------ [ Year of Entry ] ------------------------------ [ Year of Entry ] ------------------------------ [ Year of Entry ] ------------------ External ------------------------ Federation Students ------------------------ Governors ------------------------ External Support ------ Devices ------------ Desktops ------------ Laptops