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Pilot project combines identity management of UCS@school with BILDUNGSLOGIN

In cooperation with the Verband Bildungsmedien e.V. we will continue to improve digitization in education. The association has commissiones us to connect our identity management of UCS@school with their license management BILDUNGSLOGIN as part of a pilot project. It intends to provide teachers and pupils with simple access to digital educational media in compliance with data protection laws.

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Briefly explained: Samba and Active Directory: Central Domain Administration

Have you wondered what the specific differences are between Samba and Microsoft Active Directory, what functionality they offer, and what role they play in identity management for Univention Corporate Server?

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Univention and the Verband Bildungsmedien e. V. network publishers, schools and school authorities

Bremen, May 5, 2021 – Univention and the Verband Bildungsmedien e. V. are improving digitization in education with their partnership. The association has commissioned the Bremen-based software manufacturer to connect the identity management of its school solution UCS@school with the association’s license management BILDUNGSLOGIN as part of a pilot project. It intends to provide teachers and pupils with simple access to digital educational media in compliance with data protection laws.

The piloting will take place with selected school authorities, starting in the school year 2021/2022. Afterward, BILDUNGSLOGIN will be connected to all leading public and private school administration and learning management systems.

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Crowded Space Economy: Secure IT infrastructure with central identity management

Kevin Dominik Korte, President of Univention North America, has published an article on Via Satellite in which he reports on the challenges faced by many space companies in adapting their IT systems to rapidly growing corporate structures.

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Cloud Computing: Who controls your company data?

Have you ever thought about what happens to your data when hosted by big cloud providers? Especially companys often have to weigh up between convenience and security of sensitive employee- and customer data. Kevin Dominik Korte, President of Univention North America, talks about these challenges in an article published in Forbes Magazine.

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UCS 4.4-8: Eighth Point Release of UCS 4.4 – Preparation for Upgrade to UCS 5 and Performance Improvements

The eighth point release of UCS 4.4 provides preparations for the upgrade to the forthcoming UCS 5.0, performance improvements in large environments, and improvements in the App Center, AD, and S4 Connector. In this article, I would like to present the most important innovations.

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UCS 5.0 – first release candidate published

With the first release candidate (RC), we are announcing the finalization phase for the major release of Univention Corporate Server, UCS 5.0. We will be concentrating on stabilizing the features implemented up to this point. Compared to the beta version of UCS 5, which we published in December, we have been able to achieve many improvements, in particular in the web interface of the UCS portal, the management console and the Univention App Center. I would like to present these briefly.

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Staying Out Of Terrestrial Trouble: Improving Data Security for Satellite Companies

Kevin Dominik Korte, President of Univention North America, has written an article for SatMagazine. In said article, he talks about the general importance for satellite companies to keep their data safe and secure at all cost – and the challenges that come along with that necessity. 

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Cool Solutions on GitHub

Almost ten years have passed since we published the first Cool Solution for UCS 3.0: in 2011, on November 25 at 8:02 am, we created a new page in the Univention Wiki which collects the Cool Solutions for the different versions of Univention Corporate Server. A lot has happened since then: Many instructions are now available in English and no longer in German, and there is a separate section for the Cool Solutions in the Univention forum.

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How to integrate with LDAP – Example Redmine

In the blog article series “How to integrate with LDAP”, we introduce a whole range of different options and possibilities for how you can use LDAP provided by UCS to expand or use in cooperation with other services.

In the first section of this article, “Typical Configuration Options”, I will be using an example to demonstrate the sort of information typically required to perform user authentication against the UCS LDAP. I will be taking you through the necessary configuration steps using the project management system Redmine as an example, as this requests all the typical information.

In the second section, “Types of Search Users”, I will detail the possibilities available to you if it is not possible to search through the UCS LDAP anonymously.

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