My Quick and Dirty Guide:
What I use GADS to accomplish: - Sync both student and staff user accounts
- Sync passwords (for only recently updated accounts)
- Sync security and distribution groups
- Inactivate users that have left the district
- Email results of sync for troubleshooting purposes
How I use GADS and caveats: - I schedule a simple batch script to execute the program and call it's configuration file twice per day
- sha1hexfltr "hack" is needed to create password hashes as GADS is unable to pull encrypted passwords out of Active Directory
- ALL domain controllers need this or the hash won't always be created
- All users need to change their password in order for the hash to populate (I mass-changed students in one fell swoop)
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