WAT Web Admin Toolkit

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WAT (Web Admin Toolkit)

• Presented by
• Keith Jones
• Applications Project Manager
• 10th March 2009

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So WAT does it do?
Simply Allows you to create and manage User
accounts (Student Non-Student) Allows you to
e-mail enable accounts (for hosted e-mail
sites) Allows you to manage Groups Distribution
Lists and a lot more.
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So what does that mean?

• 2321 sites across all the LAs
• 1070 Site Admin accounts all ready to use WAT

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Does anyone use it?

• We transitioned 253K accounts
• Since then-
• Over 50K new accounts have been provisioned
• Over 50K accounts have been identified as old
  and disabled
• Over 6K accounts are updated each month
• All via the WAT

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But there have been problems

• Some people have struggled with UPN
  Reconciliation
• Some people have deleted their entire pupil base
• Some people just dont like the application
• Support response to issues has been slow
• Acceptedand my apologies. but there has only
  been 1 bug fix since WAT was released.

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UPN Reconciliation

• Why? So we know who is who.
• What goes wrong?
• Old data
• Poor quality of data
• Not understanding the changes shown
• Impatience

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Common Provisioning Issues

• Pending
• Overrides. What are these?
• What else goes wrong?
• Old data
• Poor quality of data
• Not understanding the changes shown
• Impatience

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Self Help

• Check Your Data
• Check Your Dataagain
• Do not be impatient
• Review the changes before committing them
• Read the User Guide - yes its long
• Check the Admin Team Site

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User Management View/edit non-student
accounts Add new non-student accounts View
student accounts Password Reset all accounts
(direct or per user) Instant enable/disable of
all accounts Bulk User Management Bulk User
Management for non-student accounts Bulk User
Management for student accounts UPN Student
reconciliation Group Management/Distribution
List Management Manage/mail enable dynamic
groups Add/edit/delete new static groups Manage
group memberships (of non-dynamic groups) Mail
enable groups (if client has hosted
email) Delete user created groups
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Site management Edit site details Set site
defaults for user provisioning Set site date to
support Key Stage account rollover to next school
year Reports Local Authority level reports
(all site reports, all population, audit trail
etc) Site level reports (site details,
population, new users, user moves, audit trail
etc) Administrator level Audit reports Advanced
Tools Customer specific links to support
services/tools Optional SSO to tools via VSP
solution Help WAT User Guide Templates for
Import Data bulk user management SIMS rep gen
to support bulk user management
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Account Provisioning Real Time
Provisioning Advisory messages/eMails on user
provisioning/edits All users provisioned with
Shibboleth attribute standards for the
solution Ability to unlock accounts Ability to
enable/disable accounts Password reset by user
account Ability to mail enable accounts (Site
specific if they have taken hosted mail
services) Ability to override site details for
specific attributes (eMail filter
policy) Ability to set multiple roles per
user Ability to add eMail aliases per user (if
client has taken hosted eMail) Optional mail
attribute for non hosted eMail clients (allows
SUMS messages to be sent to nominated mail
accounts) Allows moves of Students (receiving
site pulls users to the new site) Allows moves
of Non-Students (sending site pushes users to the
new site)
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The Future

• Changes/Enhancements are being discussed.
• What do YOU want to see?