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Friday, May 3, 2024 9:00 am - 9:45 am EDT (GMT -04:00)

TMI! But not for this new Teams member management Tool

Speakers:

Paul Dietrich, Systems Integration Specialist, Infrastructure Communications

Moderator:

Emily Goodwin

Paul has worked as a System Integration Specialist for IST since January 2011 and has worked in the field of communication technologies for 21 years.  Paul has been primarily responsible for supporting and designing all telecommunication systems on campus, but has supported other various areas of technologies.  Right before the 2020 pandemic, Paul began to utilize his previous development experience to create a fully automated platform so to provide easy access to requesting, and creating many Microsoft 365 resources; such as Teams, Planner, and Bookings (8248 objects of those types have been created via this system).  Soon after, work began on the creation of what is known as Teams Roster Sync (or TRS) which allows professors to easily request Teams with a Desire to Learn (D2L) course; and performs the synchronization of students. This saves the time that would have been required for professors to manage this tedious task (1.6 million synchronization tasks have been completed). This led to the project you are about to see today, offering a similar experience to that of the TRS. Paul continues to learn and develop his skills in all areas of expertise to help further provide better toolsets to the campus. He also has a personal life sometimes, engaging in time with his family, and enjoying being active by playinghorseshoes and baseball.

TMI (Teams Mass Import) is a new web-based tool that has been custom developed by IST in order to facilitate easy mass membership changes to Teams that you own.  It is known that using the Teams interface to do large amounts of changes can be a very cumbersome task and also does not offer features like CSV imports!  That is the reason this was developed.  TMI is a very user-friendly interface that presents to you a list of all Teams that you are an owner of, in a format of your choosing.  Once a Team is selected there are a host of features available, most notably import.  Currently, you can supply a CSV file (with examples provided!) or a Grouper group to perform the various actions with (add or remove).  The purpose of the session is to formally announce and make available the application to the whole campus as well as provide an overview of all the current functionality that can be done.  There will be a brief Q&A available at the end to take in any feedback to help continue to make this tool better over time to allow for the University community to guide the continuous improvement.