Jul 14 2017 09:53 AM
Jul 14 2017 09:53 AM
Hello,
I've noticed that SDS only syncs Teachers and Students when connected through the Powerschool API, and ignores anyone with the "Staff" role. Does anyone happen to know if there's a way to have it pick up staff as well?
Jul 26 2017 05:20 PM
Jul 26 2017 05:20 PM
Jul 28 2017 07:33 PM
Jul 28 2017 07:33 PM
Hi Matt,
Powerschool is pretty much our source of truth for all users, we manage all students/teachers/staff there. Since we've gone cloud-only with 365/AzureAD/InTune, we don't have an on-prem AD or LDAP environment to serve as an intermediary between Powerschool and AzureAD. That makes SDS pretty much the sole user identity sync method for us (our profiles are configured using the create new user option). It seems to handle Teachers & Students brilliantly thus far (thank you to you and the team for that!), it would just be handy if it would allow us to automate staff user management in AAD/365 as well.
I can certainly understand if Staff are out of scope for SDS, I just figured I'd ask since I'd like to have a consistent process for user management (and just possibly want to enable my own laziness!). Please let me know if I can provide any other info about what we'd like to be able to do with SDS, I'm happy to discuss with you or anyone from the team.