Currently we create user accounts for students who we expect to turn up
and register at the start of the academic year (and indeed all through
the year for various PG courses) as soon as we know that they may be
coming, but that results in a lot of accounts/home folders/mailboxes
which are never used and have to be removed (which isn't always
straight-forward in terms of finding why they haven't arrived; are they
just late? have they deferred? etc.).
We're wondering whether to hold off provisioning everything until the
student arrives to trigger the final part of the process.
Can people please let me know (and I'll sumarise for the list), whether
they create user accounts for students prior to them arriving, or if you
require your students to go through some form of IT registration process
when they arrive?
Thanks in advance,
Jonathan
Jonathan Noble
Windows Infrastructure Team
ISS, Newcastle University
Newcastle upon Tyne, UK
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