Integrate Nextcloud manually into UCS

Nextcloud manuell in UCS integrieren

The Nextcloud app has been available for installation from the Univention Appcenter for almost four years. It is a very effective way of making a functioning integration of the popular “File Sync and Share” solution into the management system of the Univention Corporate Server within a very short time. This is suitable for making the services of the Nextcloud hub available to a manageable number of users. On occasion, even to a larger circle of several hundred or thousand users.

However, the Docker-based integration has a few disadvantages due to its architecture, for which a Nextcloud installation on a different platform would be worth considering.

How does Single Sign-on work?

OpenID Connect SAML SSO

Single sign-on (SSO) is an authentication process which allows users to log in to many different applications with only one set of credentials. They enter their username and password once and are automatically granted access to all programs and services which have been made available to them. After they have authenticated successfully for the first time, the SSO mechanism takes over and handles the authentication to all the other services.

Automatically manage Samba Shares in UCS and UCS@school

UCS Samba Freigaben
Whether you want to share files, printers or other services in your network – the Open Source software suite Samba is an incredible powerful tool which brings Linux, Windows and macOS client computers together. Samba can manage shares for users and groups, and since version 4, Samba can also take on the role of an Active Directory Domain Controller and thus replace the Windows directory service in a domain.

Light Theme for UCS 5

UCS 5.0 Logo zum aktuellen Release
We released UCS 5.0 at the end of May – one of the most important new features of the latest major release: the new design. The dark theme of the UCS interface appears during the installation, in the portal, the Univention Management Console (UMC) and its modules as well as all other web services for end users. You don’t like the new color scheme? No problem, we’ve just released a few errata, and erratum 23 provides a second, bright theme as an alternative. In this article, I’ll explain how to change the theme of all UCS web interfaces and switch to the light theme. I’ll also show you how to configure your own color scheme.

Pilot project combines identity management of UCS@school with BILDUNGSLOGIN

Pilotrojekt BILDUNGSLOGIN: Logos Univention und Verband Bildungsmedien
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.

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.

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.