ActivMan
New Features
Components
Quick Start
Multiple Sites

Main Application
Create a new user
Create a new group
Create a new template
Create a new network connection
Create a new database connection
Using tags
Using functions
Modify existing users
Extracting students from MIS
Importing users
Apply Template
Get Missing IDs
Options
Usage
Using actions when importing

AutoImport
Introduction
Configure
Usage

New Features

The new features of v4.0 are:

• 3 different editions now exist:
  • Free
  • Pro
  • Education
• Improved mechanism to support more MISs
• Minor bug fixes and improvements

The new features of v3.3 are:

• Create SDLs (Student Distribution Lists) which are groups containing teachers of a particular student
• Each group type can now have separate email address formats
• Can now customise the character which replaces illegal characters in email addresses
• Config files, templates, logs, etc, have now been moved to the common application data location (e.g. C:\ProgramData)
• Minor bug fixes and improvements

The new features of v3.2 are:

• More password options:
  • Generate completely random alphanumeric passwords
  • Random selection of predefined words
  • Specify your own predefined words or use the default ones
  • Optionally specify whether the password must include uppercase characters
  • Optionally append a random number at the end
• Due to the new random passwords generation, a list of users and passwords is now saved in a subfolder named 'PasswordLists' as a CSV file
• When using the Extraction Wizard a new window will appear at the end listing the new accounts and their passwords
• Password list in AutoImport can be optionally emailed to someone
• Password list can be emailed as either an Excel (.xlsx) spreadsheet, CSV file, or embedded table
• Added option to specify format of new teaching group names
• Added option to specify format of new registration group names
• Forenames, Surnames, and initials are now pre-parsed to replace accented characters with standard characters
• Minor bug fixes and improvements

The new features of v3.1 are:

• Updated licensing so the application does not stop working when license expires
• Added a welcome wizard to set essential settings on first run
• Replaced extraction wizard with new wizard library
• Replaced import wizard with new wizard library
• Templates now saved automatically to correct location rather than allowing the user to specify a location
• Updated help file to include 'Apply Template' and 'Get Missing IDs'
• Improved 'Check for update' to display changes
• Minor bug fixes and improvements

The new features of v3.0 are:

• You can now specify actions to be executed when certain events occur
• You can now edit user ID's, which is used to link against your MIS
• A virtual date can now be specified in order to create accounts and groups before they actually take effect. NOTE: You must disable AutoImport until after this date as this would put everything back.
• Teaching groups can now be created as either security groups, distribution groups, or both
• Logs are now automatically saved to disk
• Added option to allow user to specify what to import, i.e. users & groups, users, or groups.
• Support for multiple MISs
• Added support for Terminal Services
• Added more user and group options
• Added custom attributes to user templates
• Added creating and managing year groups
• Added support a single domain across multiple sites which will move users' home directories between sites
• Lots of behind-the-scenes changes
• Various bugs resolved

The new features of v2.3 are:

• Apply a template to an existing user
• Update existing users with ID from MIS for use in later sync'ing
• Specify admissions status to import
• Various bugs resolved

The new features of v2.2 are:

• Extract teaching sets
• Create AD groups for each teaching set
• Automatically add students and staff to teaching sets/groups - useful for SLG
• Synchronise existing students and staff to current teaching sets/groups
• Student's UPN or staff ID now stored in AD user account - improve account matching
• AutoImport reports to Windows Event Log
• Copy Template feature added
• UDF's (User Defined Fields) now extracted from MIS. Use Tags to access data.
• Perform a test import using Import Wizard, Extraction Wizard, and AutoImport.
• View full event log from any import.
• Extract 'chosen name' of students and staff

The new features of v2.1 are:

• Customisation of display name now allowed
• More customisation options for username format
• More data extracted from MIS:
  • DOA (Date of Arrival)
  • Gender
  • Admissions Number
  • UPN (Unique Pupil Number)
  • Staff ID
  • Staff Initials
• More tags available to customise fields
• Find Database options added to New Database Connection and AutoImport
• Test Database connection feature added to New Database Connection and AutoImport
• Added more year groups available to extract
• Option to auto-connect to a server on load

The new features of v2.0 are:

• AutoImport feature to automatically synchronise your MIS to Active Directory
• Import staff
• Improved importing process
• Improved extracting from MIS process
• Active Directory Recycle Bin
• Tags can now be used in various properties of a template, i.e. "[USERNAME]"
• Tools menu to access any installed tools
• Client/Server tools to transfer data from MIS on one network to Active Directory on a separate network (via the Internet)
• Server Manager tool to configure ActivMan Server