Given that there are more RBAC roles in Azure AD than ever before. I aswell as many more with me would like to see a "School Data Sync Admin" instead of granting permanent GA to an account that is usually outsourced to a 3rd party.

SDS is great for making edu teams for teacher/student groups. But a certain teacher wil usually have several groups having more or less the same program. Now a teacher wil have to manually fill a team with content (files, onenotes and such).
It would be great if a teacher could make a master team and copy the contents of the master team to the actual work teams. The teacher can devellop the content (in the master) and reuse it in new trimesters/schoolyears.

Know that SDS won't touch what has been done manually in exemple an added student's membership to a specific teams-classroom, Would be nice to know what has been done and maintain by sync versus what has been done manually.

Why SDS would need GA rights is beynond me, albeit my knowledge about SDS is limited. It seems like this could be accomplished via an pre-defined group like Exchange Service Administrator instead.

We would like to have SDS have an option where we can filter "Teachers" that are not normally part of our Education environment. We have teachers that are from DPI that do not have Office 365 accounts so we get errors when we sync. If we could filter to only sync our domain accounts then those errors would go away. You can imagine that this could be a pain with hundred so these accounts that can be spread across 200 schools.

We would like to use SDS to deploy some Featured Apps displayed on: https://sds.microsoft.com

Teams are provisioned as soon as I submit our data. This requires additional end-user training about Microsoft Teams. This prevents us from deploying managed apps for education.

SDS is also able to provide Intune with the necessary information to manage BYOD (iOS) devices, but we can't use this in our district as not everyone is ready for Microsoft Teams.

Managing Apps and Devices (from IT-perspective) depends on the end-user Microsoft Teams adoption.

"Provision Microsoft Teams" should be an optional checkbox in a sync profile.

It would be cool if when the profile is set up, we had an option to hide the section groups from address lists. Currently I have to do this manually after the fact, it's not difficult to do, just a bit of a pain and seems like it would be an easy fix.

My oh my, setting up six separate csv files with all this critical information cross linked with IDs like a database has to be one of the weakest and most error-prone setups ive come across in 30 years of IT.. I guess the product just isn’t finished and this was a quick hack to get going?

At least support upload from a multi-tabbed xls file and provide a template with macros to generate the IDs.

SDS Term Transition and Expired Class Management Clean Up Process should have the option to remove all manually added students

This is very frustrating having the listings all over the place all out of order. I was trying to verify who was imported and to ensure things were looking right and I had to either scroll up and down to find each or use the search. If the listings had been alphabetical it would have been a cinch to follow down my alphabetical list and verify everything.

Provide for parent data in SDS, either via CSV or Clever. Many of these requests have been to allow parent access to this or that. Let's get the parent data in there first so we can link them to the appropriate students & grant access to resources, etc.

We should be able to select what fields from Powerschool do we want to sync with Azure.

Provide a change log for the SDS tookit showing the date it was updated as well as what changed.

I think you do not have the feature to provide updates that happen to the school roaster via the REST API. This would be a vital requirement for App Partners.

My oh my, setting up six separate csv files with all this critical information cross linked with IDs like a database has to be one of the weakest and most error-prone setups ive come across in 30 years of IT.. I guess the product just isn’t finished and this was a quick hack to get going?

At least support upload from a multi-tabbed xls file and provide a template with macros to generate the IDs.

I went to use the validate powershell scripts, but they couldn't be run without having a profile. I couldn't create a profile without actually importing and synchronizing the CSV files that are being imported. There should be a way to create the profiles and test against them, even viewing your data in Your Organization view, while not actually making you import and sync right away which creates the groups, users (if configured), and associations. This is just a very trimmed down feature set which needs to be expanded to provide enterprise level options and support.

Would be nice to define the period times in admin and have the outlook calendar populated by those periods attached to a class. We currently use a custom app and calendar subscription to do this but integrating it into SDS and the sync would be great.

When it support Arabic language it will be able to display section name in Arabic and course name in Arabic and any other information in Arabic