There has certainly been a lot of chatter recently about the sweeping changes that Google made with their transition from G-Suite for Education to Workspace for Education. I...
Google Enterprise Licensing Considerations for Remote Learning
We have all had to adapt to a new type of normal as a result of COVID-19. Most of the school districts that we work with have either chosen Zoom or Google Meet as their...
Google Group Improvements
Google has been giving some much needed attention to features related to synchronizing Active Directory groups to G-Suite. We discussed the changes made in 4.7.3 here.
How to Automate Staff Accounts for School Districts
Student Provisioning Services has provided student account automation for MicroFocus eDirectory and Microsoft Active Directory for over six years now. Recently we have been...
With Graduation Over, What's Next for your Education Technology Department
Now that this school year is over, and the graduation parties are done, what do we do with accounts for the students that just graduated. The practice/policy varies across...
GCDS & Google Group managers, Finally Here
I have some good news for you. Google has added a new feature to Google Cloud Directory Sync (GCDS) that you are going to love if you are managing groups in Google by...
GCDS Changes are Coming
It has been a while since I have written a quick “how to”. There have been a lot of changes at Student Provisioning Services, but they have all been good and positive. ...
The Penalty Box
One of the primary goals in process automation is to put structures in place that require little or no manual intervention. For a large percentage of your students, this is...
How to Use Profiles With GCDS
Most of the topics that I choose for blog posts come from direct real-world questions or issues that come from customers. This is one of those.