From now on, the Univention App Center offers an app, which strongly increases the security for UCS-managed IT infrastructures by controlling the access to the company’s WLAN for all users, groups and end devices via the RADIUS protocol.
New instructions on how to convert a fully virtualized, installed UCS system for paravirtualized operation on a Citrix XenServer 6.1 can be found in the Univention Wiki.
The documentation showing practical usage scenarios of UCS at a lawyer’s chambers, a medium-sized machine building company, a corporate group and an educational institution has now been updated to UCS 3.1.
New app for VPN management available in the Univention App Center
Mobile access to corporate infrastructures is becoming ever more widespread and as such so is the necessity to construct secure private networks. These must be easy to manage and it must be possible to mount them in existing IT infrastructures without any problems. For this reason, bytemine GmbH from Oldenburg, Germany, has now developed in OpenVPN4UCS a solution which is integrated in Univention Corporate Server (UCS) and published in this server system’s App Center. It offers companies a cost-effective and easy-to-operate possibility for constructing and managing VPNs.
Suppliers can now also offer corporate solutions for sale in the Univention App Center
Bremen, 10th March 2014. Univention GmbH, a leading European provider of Open Source products for the cost-efficient operation and effective administration of IT infrastructures (www.univention.com) will be demonstrating the new, expanded marketplace version of the App Center for the first time at the CeBIT in Hanover (10th-14th March, Hall 6, Booth H15). Users of the enterprise operating system Univention Corporate Server (UCS) can now not only install applications with a click of the mouse in the App Center, but also have the possibility of purchasing the respective app there directly from the supplier. The new function will be used by a number of applications such as the groupware solutions Open-Xchange and Zarafa and the file-sharing platform ownCloud right from the start. Visitors to the Univention booth at the CeBIT will be able to get an idea of the new possibilities of the App Center and experience additional new UCS features such as the AD-Takeover wizard for the simple migration of Active Directory domains, for example.
With the audriga groupware service available in the Univention App Center, UCS offers the integration of a solution, which allows the convenient migration from one groupware to another.
Next to the update to the new Linux-Kernel package version 3.10.26 with improved hardware support and bug fixes, today’s release for UCS contains new features in Univention App Center.
CeBIT 2014: Univention AD-Takeover simplifies migration from Active Directory domains
Bremen, 5th February 2014. Univention GmbH, a leading European provider of Open Source products for the cost-efficient operation and effective administration of IT infrastructures will be exhibiting a new wizard for Active Directory domain migration at the CeBIT in Hanover (10th-14th March, Hall 6, Booth H15): AD-Takeover. The wizard makes the migration from Microsoft AD domains to Univention Corporate Server (UCS) child’s play. The new tool is also of considerable benefit to system houses with customers who use the discontinued Microsoft Small Business Server and are now looking for a simple means of migrating away from the discontinued product. However, the enterprise operating system UCS is not only suitable as an alternative to Microsoft servers. Thanks to an additional function, which Univention is also presenting at CeBIT, the mounting of a UCS system in an existing Windows environment is performed just as Windows administrators are used to.This makes UCS an ideal platform for integrating additional business applications in existing Active Directory environments via the Univention App Center.
From now on, the IT service management solution KIXbox of our partner c.a.p.e.IT in Chemnitz is available in the Univention App Center. Via this new UCS component, KIXbox can be easily installed and tested.
Univention Summit 2014: Paradigm shift and perspectives for the open cloud
Bremen, 16th January 2014 +++ More than 200 partners and customers seized the opportunity to find out more about and discuss innovations, trends and sales opportunities at this year’s Univention Summit in Bremen. Topics such as clouds, migration and technologies such as SAML (Security Assertion Markup Language) were the focus of many of the presentations. For example, former IBM CTO Günther Dueck appeared as a guest speaker with a presentation entitled “Beyond Cloud” explaining cloud computing as a principle which extends far beyond IT and outlining the disruptive changes which can result from it. Keynote speaker Arno Lehmann from Bacula Systems also gave a speech on the topic “Manchmal ist die Cloud keine Option”
(Sometimes a cloud is not an option). In addition, Univention partners reported on how they market UCS successfully and deploy it in actual projects. To round everything off, Univention (www.univention.de) then presented the 2014 roadmap, introducing the further development of the Business Server and the App Center, which will be expanded into a marketplace in the future. Univention Corporate Server (UCS) users will then be able to locate corporate applications there conveniently as well as buy them directly.
