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Microsoft School Data Sync

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Product Details

Website
https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/schooldatasync/
Overview

Microsoft School Data Sync (SDS) is a Microsoft 365 Education service that imports organization, user, role, course, class, and enrollment data from a district's SIS or student-management system. It uses those records to establish education-specific identities and rosters for Microsoft Teams, Intune for Education, and other Microsoft 365 or compatible third-party experiences.

SDS eliminates much of the manual work of creating classes and keeping memberships current, but it is centered on the Microsoft 365 tenant rather than acting as a general-purpose district integration hub. Current implementations connect through supported OneRoster APIs or Microsoft CSV formats, with administrators responsible for mapping identities, monitoring synchronization health, and correcting source-data errors.

Features
SIS roster ingestion
  • Imports organizations, users, roles, courses, classes, and enrollments from supported OneRoster APIs or CSV files.
  • Processes source changes so Microsoft education services receive updated roster information.
Microsoft 365 provisioning
  • Creates and maintains the education data needed by Teams, Intune, and other Microsoft 365 experiences.
  • Associates students and educators with schools, roles, classes, and grade information in the tenant.
Identity matching and monitoring
  • Maps SIS identifiers to Microsoft Entra identities and reports synchronization errors and warnings.
  • Requires careful identity rules and source-data preparation to avoid duplicate or mismatched accounts.
Scope and limitations
  • Supports OneRoster API and Microsoft-defined CSV ingestion rather than every SIS-specific legacy connector.
  • The retired PowerSchool REST plugin and SDS Classic workflows should not be represented as current interoperability options.
Interoperabilty
Support Options
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  • Web
Company News
School Data Sync (SDS) is a free service for Education that helps to automate the process of synchronizing user and roster data from Student Information or Management Systems with Microsoft 365. SDS is a tool that helps you manage your educational organization, users, classes, and roles. SDS syncs your data with Microsoft Entra ID and Microsoft 365, so you can use Microsoft Teams, Intune for Education, Exchange Online, SharePoint Online, OneNote Class notebooks, and enable third-party apps with Single Sign On integration. SDS helps make learning more engaging and efficient.

School Data Sync (SDS) is a free service for Education that helps to automate the process of synchronizing user and roster data from Student Information or Management Systems with Microsoft 365. SDS is a tool that helps you manage your educational organization, users, classes, and roles. SDS syncs your data with Microsoft Entra ID and Microsoft 365, so you can use Microsoft Teams, Intune for Education, Exchange Online, SharePoint Online, OneNote Class notebooks, and enable third-party apps with Single Sign On integration. SDS helps make learning more engaging and efficient.

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