Deciding Whether You Want the Driver to Manage Existing User Accounts

During your planning, decide whether you want the driver to manage existing eDirectory user accounts. This decision lets you know whether to specify Yes or No for the Manage Existing eDirectory Users field when configuring the driver. This field is on the Global Config Variables page for the driver.

The driver gives you the following options for how to handle existing accounts. You can choose one to start with, and later switch to another option as needed.

• Yes. Use this option if you have one of the following scenarios:

  • eDirectory has no users, and you want to populate eDirectory by migrating all students from the student information system into eDirectory.
  • You want to remove all existing users in eDirectory and home directories, then populate eDirectory by migrating all students from the student information system into eDirectory.
  • You want to manage all existing eDirectory User objects and new students, without deleting any existing user accounts.

    Add the student ID from the student information system to the DirXML-sifSISID attribute for existing accounts in eDirectory, so the driver can manage them.

• No. Use this option if you don't want to manage existing eDirectory users; you want to use the driver only to provision new students.

For more information on these options, the reasons why you might choose them, and how to set them up, see Synchronizing eDirectory the First Time.