now an open source application, to "sync" our Active Directory accounts with
Google Apps. It's been working great so far for the last year...
On Tue, Dec 15, 2009 at 4:33 PM, Thomas Phelan <tphelan@peddie.org> wrote:
> We migrated to Google Apps back in September 2008 and there are a lot of
> great things about Google Apps, but one thing we found lacking was the
> stock
> administrator tools. While Google has improved the stock admin tools
> significantly since Sept 2008, they still are lacking in a number of ways.
> To fill in the gap I used the Google API to create a site to supplement the
> stock admin tools. Our site currently does the following:
>
> - Allows you to change a username (e.g. due to marriage). The stock tools
> allow you to change the display name, but not the username.
> - While the stock tools allow small domains to export a user list as a
> CSV, this option does not seem to be available for larger domains (at
> least
> not our domain), and even for small domains you can't export group
> membership information. Our site allows you to export all users, and if
> you
> don't mind waiting 5 minutes for the export to complete, you can also
> export
> all group memberships for each user.
> - We still find the group management tools cumbersome, so I built a page
> dedicated to managing groups making adding/deleting/modifying members in
> groups as easy as pasting email addresses into a test box.
>
> Since all Google Apps domains use the same API, it was trivial to add the
> functionality to our site to allow it to be used to manage any Google Apps
> domain; therefore, I decided to open it up for any school or non-profit
> use.
> If you administer a Google Apps domain for a school or non-profit and would
> like to use our site, please send me an email
> (tphelan@peddie.org<tphelan@peddie.org?Subject=GoogleAppsAdmin_Request>)
> or give me a call (609-944-7625) requesting that I add your domain to the
> list of allowed domains. *Please DO NOT send me your administrator
> password!
> *
>
> The URL for the site which includes more information about the site is:
> http://webapps.peddie.org/GoogleAppsAdmin/
>
> --
> Tom Phelan
> Director of Technology
> Peddie School
> tphelan@peddie.org
> Office: 609-944-7625
>
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