If your HR department standardizes on the way they enter the data into their HR database, Option 3 would also give you uniformity in the data. Addresses and phone numbers would be formatted consistently and completely.
You'll have "123 Main Street" instead of possibly "123 main street" or "123 main St.", for example. Leaving data entry up to end users may result in spotty information and not all users may opt to fill in this information feeling it is too personal to share, even though they already have shared it with HR. ----- Original message ----- From: Michael Ryder <[1]mryder1...@gmail.com> To: Jeremy Page <[2]jeremy.p...@gilbarco.com> Cc: LOPSA Tech <[3]tech@lists.lopsa.org> Subject: Re: [lopsa-tech] Users update their own info in AD Date: Thu, 9 May 2013 14:14:39 -0400 How about Option 3, setup an interface to automate the update of AD entries directly from HR's database? Maybe the stuff you left out would short-circuit this option... maybe not. But it would seem to be the most elegant choice that could be automated and thus free you to think deep thoughts. Mike On Thu, May 9, 2013 at 2:05 PM, Jeremy Page <[4]jeremy.p...@gilbarco.com> wrote: On 05/09/2013 02:03 PM, Edward Ned Harvey (lopser) wrote: Coming into a company where AD properties (firstname, lastname, phone number, etc) have been neglected ... Option 1 is to have HR contact all the people in the company, get correct info into a spreadsheet, and then IT figure out how to script it from spreadsheet into AD. Option 2, which I'd prefer, is to send out a mass email to the users of the company, and have them enter their own corrected information. (Optionally, with IT review, so Mickey Mouse can't change his name to Barrack Obama, and stuff like that.) Admittedly, I'm posting this question prematurely. I haven't looked around yet, which I'm going to start now. _______________________________________________ Tech mailing list [5]Tech@lists.lopsa.org [6]https://lists.lopsa.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/tech This list provided by the League of Professional System Administrators [7]http://lopsa.org/ Send the proposed edits to their manager for approval? Please be advised that this email may contain confidential information. If you are not the intended recipient, please notify us by email by replying to the sender and delete this message. The sender disclaims that the content of this email constitutes an offer to enter into, or the acceptance of, any agreement; provided that the foregoing does not invalidate the binding effect of any digital or other electronic reproduction of a manual signature that is included in any attachment. _______________________________________________ Tech mailing list [8]Tech@lists.lopsa.org [9]https://lists.lopsa.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/tech This list provided by the League of Professional System Administrators [10]http://lopsa.org/ _______________________________________________ Tech mailing list [11]Tech@lists.lopsa.org [12]https://lists.lopsa.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/tech This list provided by the League of Professional System Administrators [13]http://lopsa.org/ References 1. mailto:mryder1...@gmail.com 2. mailto:jeremy.p...@gilbarco.com 3. mailto:tech@lists.lopsa.org 4. mailto:jeremy.p...@gilbarco.com 5. mailto:Tech@lists.lopsa.org 6. https://lists.lopsa.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/tech 7. http://lopsa.org/ 8. mailto:Tech@lists.lopsa.org 9. https://lists.lopsa.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/tech 10. http://lopsa.org/ 11. mailto:Tech@lists.lopsa.org 12. https://lists.lopsa.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/tech 13. http://lopsa.org/
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