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In May 2021, the release of UCS 5 took place. Important changes are: New design and improved user interface Expansion of Univention App Center New core: Debian “Buster” and Python 3 Simplification and concentration on the essentials Since the release of UCS 5, installations have been increasing daily. New systems are being installed and existing […]

On May 11, 2022, we released the new Univention ID Broker to simplify the integration of educational portals and educational SaaS services (Software as a Service) in schools’ IT environments. The broker acts as intermediary service and connects UCS@school (serving as identity management system at school boards, states, and individual schools) with different external services, […]

The IDM (Identity Management System) is an essential part of UCS. Thanks to the central administration of the data, it is ensured that the necessary data for the logins following different standards is available and unified.

On the way to perfection. The first point release of UCS 5.0 brings further important features and tops off the major release from May. The announced Light Theme is now available as an alternative for the user interface. There were improvements in the UCS Portal and App Center, and a number of other apps are […]

A developer’s work is never done—after we published the fifth major release of Univention Corporate Server in May 2021, we’ve been keeping busy. Of course, we kept looking after our core product UCS, but we’ve also put in lots of hours to release UCS@school for UCS 5.0. In this blog post, I would like to […]

The Microsoft 365 Connector app has been updated to version 4.0 with a great new key feature: the app now supports Microsoft Teams.  In a nutshell, administrators of a UCS environment can now activate and deactivate groups for Teams, add and remove individual user accounts, and determine Team owners.

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 […]

The fifth major release of Univention Corporate Server is ready and available for download. UCS 5.0 contains new features, has a fresh look, comes with several improvements and bug fixes. The new version also uses a new core: UCS 5.0 is based on Debian 10 (“Buster”) and Python 3.

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?

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.