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Updated UCS@school Kelvin REST API to version 1.7.0

Using the UCS@school Kelvin REST API app, you can conveniently create, delete or modify UCS@school user and class objects via a REST interface. Unlike the import function and manual interventions via the web interface, it is less error-prone and can be addressed automatically.

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Introducing a Central ID Management System at Marburg Schools

When you hear Marburg, you probably first think of its nationally known Philipps University or the production site of the biotechnology company BioNtech. What is probably less well known to most outsiders is the role of the school authority.

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Using the Univention ID Connector to implement federal-state solutions for central user data administration

The provision and maintenance of the schools’ master data are one of the most challenging issues in digital school administration. How do you manage to have complete, up-to-date user data available at any time, in any system, without manual and error-prone maintenance? At Univention, we have taken on this challenge and developed the UCS@school ID Connector to synchronize school identities on several independent UCS@school IDMs.

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New OX Connector: connecting an external Open-Xchange Installation

The new OX Connector app synchronizes selected users and groups between Univention Corporate Server and a remote Open-Xchange system. Our app uses the OX SOAP API for communication. In this blog article I would like to introduce you to the new OX Connector. I’ll also talk about the prerequisites for your environment.

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UCS@school for a Modern Realignment of Jena’s School IT

In the independent city of Jena in Thuringia there are 27 schools run by the municipality. Our IT department at the Jena Media Center supports around 12,500 students and 1,700 teachers in elementary schools, community schools, high schools, three vocational schools and a special-needs center.

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Blog Series about Digital Sovereignty

Part 2: Most Important Drivers of the Digitally Sovereign Emergence in Germany and Europe

A few weeks ago, our working student Ann-Kathrin dedicated her series on Digital Sovereignty to the what & why. To learn more about the meaning of this now almost overused term and the role of open source in strengthening Digital Sovereignty, take a look at part 1 of the blog series.

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Linkage of the Learning Management System itslearning to the Univention ID Broker!

Today we present another educational platform that will soon be available via the Univention ID Broker for all connected school boards and their schools: itslearning.

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Starting signal for the Sovereign Administrative Workplace

A huge opportunity for digitalization of not just the administration!

Last week, the project “Sovereign Administrative Workplace” was officially launched at the Federal Ministry of the Interior and in the presence of the Federal CIO State Secretary Markus Richter: Working together with Dataport and a number of other manufacturers from the open source ecosystem, Univention is developing the software for the administrative workplace of the future.

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Samba: Backup and Restore on UCS

Do you administer any Windows machines in your UCS domain? Do you also use Samba to provide an Active Directory-compliant domain controller with a login service for the Windows clients? If the answer is yes, you may have wondered what backup and restore strategy is best suited for your environment. What data do you need to back up? How do you go about restoring a single domain controller (DC) in the event of an emergency? And what to do if the entire domain is affected by a failure?

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UCS 5 Dashboard available – Alert Manager replaces Nagios-Integration

Detailed domain and server monitoring for important Key Performance Indicators (KPIs) such as disk usage, memory, CPU, network, etc. is an indispensable part of ensuring the smooth, trouble-free operation of an UCS environment. Using the UCS Dashboard, administrators can quickly obtain an overview of the status of a UCS domain and its servers via different dashboards.

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