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Copper Contributor

Feb 05, 2017

School Data Sync is sucessful but nothing appears in Office 365

Our school is trying out Microsoft Classroom. I successfuly ran School Data Sync which imported, verified, and synced our CSV files. But none of the sync'd data appears in our Office 365 or Classro...

Bob Cowie

Copper Contributor

Feb 08, 2017

Thanks Matt, you were correct, I was impatient when I wrote this post, but about 30 minutes later all the data appeared as expected. I did have another question, I found that although I loaded all the teacher & student passwords., they are required to change the password on first log-in, which causes an issue as their passwords are pre-assigned and handed out. Their passwords are synced to their mail & other accounts in the school system. I found that I could disable the requirement for periodic password change, but not the one for change at first-login. Is there a way to disable that, or alternatively could I work around it by starting over and loading temporary passwords, which they could then change to the desired password at first log-in? Thanks for the tip on the deployment support, We're trying to push this forward with the teachers and if they are receptive, I'm sure we would be happy to have support. I made the first import CSV files by hand as a trial, but we would eventually link it to our SIS system. Thanks again for the response!

Matt McGinnis

Brass Contributor

Feb 10, 2017

Settings for requiring password changes are not managed by SDS. I did send this question to our Active Direcotry experts, but likely there is a setting there to require password changes or not, and it would require global admin rights to make a change. Let me know if you find a solution, and I'll keep asking around here.

Bob Cowie
Copper Contributor
Feb 21, 2017
Matt, FYI we did this by loading temporary passwords with SDS, then logging in as each student (for the first time) & changing their passwords to the desired value. We have only 50 to 100 students in junior high so this was reaonable.

I found that in the Admin Center, we can also use the option Reset Password for each user, and there is a checkbox in that option to not require a password change on next log-in. I tried that and it too worked, it supprresses the password change at log-in, but it requires the password to be reset, so temporary passwords still must first be loaded.

We have teachers beginning to ceate assignments and rolling them out to students in the computer lab as a trial, so hoping it goes well!
- Matt McGinnis
  Brass Contributor
  Feb 21, 2017
  Great- I'm glad you found the solution. I was also trying to find a way to not require a reset or temporary for you, but if you are importing CSV files then the passwords are vulnerable, so your solution or using the Azure Active directory admin center is preferred.