 Largest community college system in Missouri serving an area of about 700 square miles; created by area voters in 1962  League for Innovation institution  Four campuses  Three education centers  Transfer, career and developmental programs  Non-credit continuing education courses  Various workforce development initiatives

 25,000 credit students each semester  48,000 non-credit each year  28,000 workforce development students  90 credit programs  57 workforce development programs  2,000 faculty  4,000 employees

 SunGardHE Banner ERP system  Single forest, single domain Active Directory  All administrative, and most student/library workstations are running Windows XP (almost all others are OS X) – 8,000+ desktops  All employees login through AD accounts  All employees have Exchange mailboxes  Growing use of Blackboard  Goal is to eventually authenticate all students through individual AD accounts

 Students  Many do not have an account  Many do not update their Banner (student ERP ) information when they change accounts  Want.edu address  FacultyCommunity Relations  Faculty and Community Relations  Want a standard, reliable student address  Administration  STLCC OneCard ID requires an account  College wants a way to build an ongoing relationship with, and a means to contact, alumni

.edu address to take advantage of specific services and offers  Lots of storage  Works on multiple common platforms  Windows, Mac, Mobile  IE, Firefox, Safari, Opera  Reliable spam management  Effective spam and virus filtering  Personally controlled safe and block lists

Students select and use their own provider No consistency, hard to track, varying reliability, unknown delivery, some students never get one Do nothing Software and storage costs, staffing requirements Use existing Exchange system or a webmail system College domain name and provisioning control In-House “Free” vs. pay-per-account systems Concerns on privacy of data, advertising College domain name and provisioning control Hosted

 Limited IT server support staffing  Limited help desk support staffing  Limited capital for student / data storage  Banner is the trusted source for all student info  Already have Exchange infrastructure in place, sized only for employee accounts ( 200MB / 1GB )  Already have district-wide AD authentication in place, DCs were sized for student accounts  Already plan to use Microsoft ILM (MIIS) for student AD account provisioning

 A set of online communication and collaboration applications hosted by Microsoft  5GB Hotmail (or Exchange) Inbox  5GB SkyDrive  1,000 document Office Live Workspace with SharedView (beta)  Personal web/blog/discussion site and blogging tool  IM, SMS (Alerts), and Mobile access  Works on common platforms (Windows/Mac, Firefox/Safari)  Uses College domain name and  Students get a address for life  No ads for students in interface

 Accounts are for current, registered, credit students  Accounts are created when they register  Account ID created by Banner (3 rd Party ID)  Windows Live account displayed in Banner Self-Service (along with other addresses)  Student may forward  Accounts are marked as “Alumni” when student has not registered for three Fall or Spring terms  Accounts will be optional (personal use) at first, becoming the official address in Fall 2008

 All Windows Live individual accounts will use domain name  Windows Live accounts are also to be provisioned for all employees  Employee accounts would be part of the disaster recovery plan – to be used for communication in the event of the loss of our primary data center and Exchange system  The official employee address will remain the College hosted Exchange server one

 Sign-in name  Birthdate  Offer ID (current student or not)  Temporary (first-time) password

 ILM 2007 or MIIS 2003  Provides rich directory synchronization  eduExpress  Desktop application for one at a time or batch provisioning  No automatic directory synchronization  Trial or pilot use / infrequent updates  Command Line Application  Entire directory is sent each time a change is made

 Banner process runs in batch after COB  Create 3 rd Party ID in Banner  This becomes the AD samAccountName  This becomes the Windows Live account prefix  Create Windows Live address in Banner  Import Banner information into Microsoft ILM  ILM provisions AD account and imports changes to metaverse  ILM provisions Windows Live account

 Add PIDM (Banner unique record identifier) to existing employee AD accounts  Verify AD PIDM entry and display name against Banner student and employee records, make corrections  Load Banner 3 rd Party ID with existing AD samAccountName, matched up by PIDM  Have Banner generate 3 rd Party IDs for all other person records  Add MX record

Identity Lifecycle Manager Active Directory Exchange MA Metaverse CSV File Extract Data Banner

CSV Object=Person Display Name Name Given Name Initials CN samAccountName PIDM Birthdate Student ID Status Indicator Metaverse Object=Person Display Name Name Given Name Initials CN UID Windows Live ID PIDM Birthdate “A” number TempPassword Status Indicator Active Directory Object=User Display Name Name Given Name Initials CN samAccountName ExtAttribute PIDM ExtAttribute BD ExtAttribute AID ExtAttribute Status Windows Live Object=PassportUser SignInName Birthdate TempPassword OfferID

 Some of the “additional parameters” values are required (ignore the “optional” in the manual) :  Language  Country  Birthdate  Timezome  Brand ID  Offer ID  Region code

 Clicking the College logo presents a drop- down menu of key College web links  College branding appears in mail now, will be extended by Microsoft into other products later

 Provisioning student AD and Windows Live accounts since January 12, 2008 – the initial run processed 26,089 student accounts  Existing employee AD records were updated to allow Windows Live provisioning  Daily updates of deltas  As of this week, over 38,580 Windows Live accounts have been provisioned  Student overview and help information is at

 Website with:  Overview  Getting Started  FAQs  Documentation  Signs and Posters  Flyers  Ads in printed schedule  Faculty communications

 Anywhere Access  Save 1,000+ Microsoft Office documents in one place  Access them from almost any computer with a Web browser  Open and save files directly from Word, Excel, and PowerPoint  No more flash drives or sending yourself documents via  Share with Others  Invite people to your workspace  You control who can view, comment, and edit your documents  Stop manually merging versions from multiple people  Organize a Study Group  Work together on assignments and share notes from class  Keep a shared schedule and task list for your group

 account will be the official communications channel with students starting with the Fall 2008 semester  Sungard Banner UDC will provide student and employee updates to ILM in near real-time  ILM will provision Active Directory and Windows Live accounts in near real-time from the Banner UDC data stream  New version of ILM provides self-service password reset capability for AD and Windows Live accounts

 With ILM, it was just as easy to provision AD and Windows Live accounts as it would be to just do Windows Live  CSV file has to be in a folder created by the MA on the ILM server  No hyphens (-) or apostrophes (‘) in Windows Live user names / AD samAccountNames  Multiple support groups at Microsoft  ILM / MIIS  Windows Live Program  Windows Live MA  Windows Live MA Error Message Interpretation

 Low cost way to offer student  is easily branded for the institution  and lots of other functionality at no cost to the student  Directory integration requires ILM / MIIS

 STLCC Windows Live Information  Microsoft FAQs  Student information on (Silverlight)  Microsoft Blog

 Mark Doering (Banner Questions) Manager, Systems and Programs  Richard Schumacher (Microsoft Questions) Manager, Technology Initiatives  Presentation is available online at:  Mark Doering (Banner Questions) Manager, Systems and Programs  Richard Schumacher (Microsoft Questions) Manager, Technology Initiatives  Presentation is available online at: