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Evening all. It's Saturday night on a bank holiday weekend so I'm hoping I'm not the only one working. I've got to create a new SDS profile (thanks tot he cleanup process not working as expected). Anyone know if Salamandersoft SDS sync supports the 2.1 CSV format?

so the actual error is: "Not adding user id XXXXX to output file teacherRoster.csv as id not found in user list." (about 6 times) I'm using SIMS and I can't find a corresponding ID field in SIMS to see who isn't getting synced.

Hello, My school currently uses SIMS and O365; however, the two are not joined together and teachers have to create their own groups which, although we are a small school, seems terribly inefficient. I came across school data sync which looks like a way to go - my question is how easy is it to set up with SIMS? It looks like I need to generate csv files to import into SDS. My IT people aren't particularly proactive and said it looked like a big job! I suggested Salamander School Data Sync (https://www.salamandersoft.co.uk/sds/) but again they seemed to think that this would not be too easy. I'm not sure if I am being fobbed off, so am looking for some advice from others that have probably done this already. I am not an IT specialist and am not sure about the O365 side of things (ie the active directory stuff) but I have a reasonable knowledge of SIMS. Thanks in advance for any suggestions, Martyn

Hi Currently we have two separate domain one fro staff and one for students. We are going to create new account on our staff domain for student then delete the old students domain. When I setup the student ad sync it worked fine, however when I have tried to setup the new AD connect on the staff domain it looks like I am going to have to changed all the UPN because of a non-routable domain. I have a few questions if anybody can answer them: If I start to sync certain OU from AD to Office365 will the staff accounts that are active and manually created still be there? Is it possible to stop students email some of our existing groups in office365 (I dont want them email all staff group for example?) Any other restrictions we should stop students from doing in office365? Once the users are in the cloud I am going to setup Microsoft Sync to sims, anybody done this yet and have they used the free salamanda tool or just the Microsoft tool (I am not sure what salamanda gives you over the Microsoft School data sync?) Thanks

Who are we? We (SalamanderSoft) are a small, but dynamic, team dedicated to providing first class products and services to the Education Sector. Through our integration products for school systems, we help our customers to connect up their on-site and off-site systems in exactly the way they need to support teaching and learning as well as school administration. As our customer base is growing, we are looking for an experienced support consultant/technician to help us maintain our level of support to our new and existing customers. We also give back to the community by developing the SharePoint Learning Kit and a number of free utilities for schools. What we need you to do You will be joining the team to help us remotely install and support our range of products into Schools. The main products you will be working with are our range of integration products, linking School MIS to Active Directory, SharePoint, Office 365, G Suite for Education and other systems. Our work is conducted from our own homes, although some occasional travel and hotel stay may be needed to allow us to meet as a team and best support our customers. This is a hands on technical role. What we will do for you 5 weeks paid holiday per year plus bank holidays Flexibility in working hours when required, although our customers’ needs have to come first The opportunity to get rid of your daily commute Expenses paid on any business travel Support you in improving your current skills and to work with and develop new ones The opportunity to attend some conferences/events/training during the year Paid Certification attempts Who we are looking for Someone with great technical skills who loves helping customers and solving problems. We're not finished with a job until the customer is happy. You are the sort of person who will see something wrong and fix it before it is raised as an issue. This is very much a customer focussed role, and regular customer contact via Phone/Skype and email will be essential. Although you will need to be able to work independently and with little supervision, the team is always in contact via Skype for Business, Yammer, email and phone. However, home working isn't for everyone, some need the face-to-face contact an office gives! With technology being such as fast moving field, we would expect you to have a thirst for knowledge and be keen to improve your skills, with a proven track record of doing so. Although we will provide all the equipment and software that you need to do your job, you will need a suitable area for working in your home, a broadband connection and probably a kettle. Now the boring bit Key Skills we are looking for: Expertise and Experience maintaining Active Directory, preferably in a School Environment Experience with scripting Active Directory Experience with Basic SQL Server Queries It would be great if you had - but don't worry if you haven't: Knowledge and experience of SIMS.Net/Facility CMIS or other School MIS systems Scripting Experience One or more Microsoft Certifications Experience working with Excel or other products for analysing data Experience with SharePoint in an education environment Experience with Office 365 Administration Experience with G Suite / Google Apps for Education Administration Some experience of managing IT projects Next Steps If you are interested in joining our team, please write to us at [email protected] with anything you want to support your application. Links to social media and community involvement would be great as well. Noting where you saw the ad would be helpful to us. If you would like more information or an informal chat about the role, please contact Jon Atkinson, [email protected]. First interviews will be conducted via Skype Video Calling w/c 28th November 2016. It is hoped that the successful candidate will start w/c 6th February 2017 Closing Date The closing date for Applications is midnight on Sunday 13th November

Hello all, We use Teams and previously, Teams were created with a complex powershell script written by the previous IT Manager. I don't want to use this script for various reasons. I was planning to use Salamandersoft but have just read on here that MS have stopped the automatic creation of groups. Does this mean they can't be created through Salamandersoft? Also, if it does, what are the main benefits of using the paid for version? Will it make life a lot easier for someone like me who isn't great with scripts, powershell etc? Many thanks for any help.