Deployment

Deployment

This project is part of a greater dream to get to a single sign on and data sharing solution that originates from a student being entered in a district's Student Information System. It is designed to automate the creation of student user accounts in Microsoft's LDAP solution, Active Directory. It will work with any SIS that is able to automate the export of CSV files.

Deployment Considerations

Before deploying, you must make sure that your policies around the creation of student usernames and passwords support automation. In other words, you need to make sure that the way you generate your usernames generates a unique one for every student. You should also potentially set up an email address dedicated to SIS-AD_Sync. See the Deployment Considerations page for more information.

Deployment Overview

Deploying SIS-AD_Sync requires the following steps:

1. Prepare the CSV files that will be exported from the SIS
2. Clone the repository
3. Modify the marked fields in the config.xml file
4. Modify the Organizational_Units.csv and Exclusion_Rules.csv files to match your requirements
5. Export CSV information from the SIS
6. Do Initial Email Setup/Test your deployment
7. Automate your deployment

Deployment Detail:

Here are the steps in detail:

1. Prepare the CSV files