Microsoft Identity Integration Server 2003
Information sharing is essential in education—and not just between teacher and student. Schools and colleges need to share information about staff and students, within and across departments, that is typically held on multiple systems.
Microsoft® Identity Integration Server (MIIS) 2003 is a centralised service that manages identity information for institutions with multiple data stores. It also provides a centrally-administrated authentication system with password synchronicity and user permission management, in conjunction with the Active Directory® service. Institutions using MIIS 2003 can gain a unified view of all known identity information about students, teachers, learning, and network resources. Based on Microsoft SQL ServerTM technology for reliability and performance, MIIS 2003 helps increase security, improve consistency, and reduce the total cost of ownership associated with managing and integrating data.
Five Reasons to Deploy Microsoft Identity Integration Server 2003
| • | Help your institution achieve better results and better cooperation with greater integration across various academic departments. |
| • | Improve security and reduce administration time with unified passwords and global provisioning. |
| • | Automatically detect changes to information in any store across the institution, then propagate them to all connected data sources. |
| • | Connect easily to most network operating systems, e-mail, database, directory, and application software. |
| • | Automate common administrative tasks and customise data management with Microsoft Windows Management Instrumentation (WMI) scripting and Microsoft .NET programming languages. |
Benefits for Stakeholders
Institutions
MIIS 2003 improves productivity and reduces administration costs by automatically updating and integrating identity information from across the institution, with no need for manual updates. School office records, timetables, extra-curricular activities, attendance records, and more can be created or updated by a single stroke, saving time and ensuring consistency among different academic departments.
Global administration of user accounts makes updating student and staff accounts faster and more accurate. Single point password synchronisation means users and administrators use one simple Web interface instead of using multiple tools to change passwords across different systems.
Students
Students only need to remember one password for their education needs. This can be updated to maintain security, and easily reset if forgotten. Various facets of academic life—such as study groups, clubs, and sports teams—can be brought together, so key information such as timetabling can be shared and better organised.
Teachers
A single password environment is doubly useful for teachers: it simplifies their own system access, and reduces time wasted in lessons on password resets for forgetful pupils. Data sharing across departments using MIIS helps teachers access information to keep track of student progress, and personally tailor curricula to individuals.
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