[THIN] Re: OT: HR info in AD
- From: "Evan Mann" <emann@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <thin@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Fri, 21 Oct 2005 11:05:12 -0400
I'd suggest you take the info from HR's system and not have HR's system
take your information. IT should have no responsibility for accuracy of
that information.
At my company, we have an automated system that checks for new entries
in HR's sytem and sends an e-mail. The HR system is not the actual
system (ADP) but a custom database system our MIS department created and
it's a SQL backend I take the info from the e-mail and create a new
user account. The e-mail provides the office, department, and title. I
also type in the phone number for that office and the address.
If the info comes over incorrectly from HR, then it goes into AD
incorrectly, and HR is at fault, not IT.
I've had over 3000 hires/terminations in the past 3 years, and I still
do it all by hand, just me, with occasional help from 1 person.
Automating it would probably save me 2 hours time per week, but I just
haven't gotten around to it.
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From: thin-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:thin-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On
Behalf Of Roger Riggins
Sent: Friday, October 21, 2005 10:48 AM
To: thin@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: [THIN] OT: HR info in AD
Sorry for the OT, just trying to find out how others are doing this:
We're having some growing pains. Our process for new hires/terminations
is not working very well. We have an HR package that maintains all user
demographics and is entered when the employee is hired. Then they come
to us to create an account for them, which has no demographic
information. When the employee is terminated, we sometimes aren't even
notified so the accounts aren't removed in a timely manner. Then we add
them to a web based phonebook, so that staff are able to locate each
other. Obviously we're entering the same data more than once.
I'd like to see all demographic information in AD, but am unsure if I
should pull it from the HR package or enter it into AD and then pull it
into the HR package. How are you doing the imports/exports? It'd be
helpful to have this info in AD. I'd also like to find out what
processes you guys are doing to automate or streamline account
creation/removal when employees are hired/terminated and ensure that
none are missed.
Thanks for any info you're willing to share.
Roger Riggins
Network Administrator
Lutheran Services in Iowa
w: 319.859.3543
c: 319.290.5687
http://www.lsiowa.org
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