The final piece of our puzzle is provisioning of Office 365 Education (o365) automatically. To recap, we started out by using Moodle as the directory reference, modified Moodle plugin called Configurable Reports to synchronize Moodle user accounts to our LDAP server, and used Google Cloud Directory Sync (GCDS) to provision Google accounts from our LDAP […]
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Synchronize Google G-Suite using LDAP
So, we started out by saying that we are going to use Moodle as the reference directory. From this we will build our LDAP directory (synchronize from Moodle to LDAP). So now we want to synchronize our G-Suite directory to LDAP. How do we achieve this? Well, Google provides an excellent standalone tool for Windows […]
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LDAP is the well known Lightweight Directory Access Protocol to implement directory services. It is easy to install LDAP on your own LAMP stack VPS in the cloud such as the one in Digital Ocean. Having installed LDAP, how do we synchronize it to Moodle? remember, our LDAP is empty at the beginning. This will […]
Continue readingUsing Moodle as a Directory
Ideally, it would be nice to have a master on-premises directory that controls membership in the institution. This would be the reference. All other services would be synchronized to this and have a single-sign-on (SSO). To be specific, we would have our on-premises directory on open LDAP (Light Directory Access Protocol) and our services such […]
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