New Features for Keycloak as Upcoming Standard Identity Provider of UCS

With UCS 5.2 Keycloak will become the standard IDP for SAML and OpenID Connect authentication and will replace the current SimpleSAMLPHP and Kopano Connect apps. Read more about the big picture in our blog article Migration of the Identity Provider in UCS – Keycloak App now Part of the Support Scope. The first step we made was the release of Keycloak as a supported Univention app at the end of 2022. Since then, a lot of work has been done to make the Keycloak app a worthy replacement for the SimpleSAMLphp integration.

So, we are making steady progress on our mission to reach feature parity with our SimpleSAMLphp integration. And since the initial release of the Keycloak app, we have also released several app updates each adding new features in terms of a smooth integration into UCS and more configurability.

In this article, we would like to showcase some of the work that has been done over the last few months.

Cool Solution: Single-Sign-On-Integration of Moodle into UCS@school

From pandemics to corporate training, new technologies have transformed the landscape of learning dramatically in recent years. It is especially true in the area of learning platforms. Whether used for self-study or to coordinate homework, learning platforms have become an integral part of almost all educational institutions. Many UCS@school users rely on the well-known Open Source solution Moodle, which can be adapted to individual needs in terms of content and presentation. By integrating Moodle into UCS@school, which we offer as so-called “cool solutions“, teachers and students can easily log in to their courses and classes with their familiar user data.

Stubbornness Does Not Suit us: Univention Breaks the Model of Roles for UCS and UCS@school

UCS@school flexibleres Rollen- und Rechtemodell
At Univention, we have been supporting school authorities and federal states, organizations from the private sector and public administration for many years with our powerful identity management. With its role and authorization concept, it is tailored to the needs of organizations with many users in a wide variety of contexts, whether schools, departments or branch offices.

End of Maintenance of UCS 4.4

End of UCS 4

Users who are still using UCS 4.4 should update to the more recent version UCS 5 in order to continue receiving security updates, bug fixes and minor releases. In any case, the update sequence must be observed. An update to UCS 5.0 requires at least UCS 4.4-8 with UCS 4.4-8 erratum 972. For more information about the current release versions of UCS 5 and the necessary steps for an update, please refer to the release notes.

Owners of our UCS Standard subscription have the option to sign an extended maintenance support contract for the upgrade from UCS 4.4 to 5. Please contact our sales team at sales@univention.de.