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(Re)moving students from Groups via SDS
DeletedAt the moment I'm using the Active/Inactive attribute (from our Powerschool sync) in an Azure AD dynamic group. Do you think that will be a problem going forward?
Hi Grant-
there is no problem using the status (active/inactive) attribute. There are no plans to change or remove it, I just don't know of any app that uses it currently. Are you actually using it, or have an apps that does? If so, please let me know so I can educate myself.
Thanks
Matt
- DeletedSep 14, 2017
DeletedAt the moment I am using it to handle our off-boarding process for students. We have both the paid and the free/unlimited 365 subscription SKU's for students (Office 365 Proplus for Students and Office 365 Education for Students). In order to manage licensing in as automated of a manner as I can, I've created two AAD groups, one for Active students and one for Inactive Students. I use the dynamic groups function in AAD to auto-populate both based on the attribute coming in from Powerschool via SDS. Then I configured AAD group licensing so that the Active Students group automatically gets both subscriptions, while the Inactive Students group only gets the free subscription. This allows me to make sure that our limited pool of paid subscriptions is assigned only to the appropriate students, without having to deal with a ton of administrative overhead to manually deassign licenses at the end of the school year or whenever a student drops.
Sorry if that explanation is a confusing mess, just let me know if you'd like me to clarify any of it.
-grant
- DeletedSep 14, 2017
this is great- thanks for explaining. I had not considered that scenario and I'm sure other readers will find it useful. Thanks for contributing to the community!
- DeletedSep 14, 2017
I'm happy to contribute any way I can, SDS has been a great tool for us so I'm always glad to help others make use of it.