From our Development

Since the release of UCS 4.1 in November 2015, the App Center has supported Docker apps. These are applications in the form of Docker images that are deployed by the App Center in a Docker container. To do this, the App Center downloads the Docker image of an app and starts the Docker container. We […]

With the development of the OpenID Connect Provider App, which we announced at the Univention Summit 2018, we have taken another important step towards making UCS a secure and open platform for managing a wide range of services. The goal we are pursuing: All UCS users should retain full control over their data and digital […]

Once again it is time to inform about the latest activities in our development department. Let’s start with the UCS portal.

It‘s been only four weeks that we published UCS 4.3-2, and we already have some more news for you from our development team. UCS 4.2-5 Two weeks ago we published UCS 4.2-5. Essentially this release bundles the nearly 100 errata updates, mainly security updates and stabilizations that were released for UCS 4.2-4. The upcoming errata […]

With UCS 4.3-2, the second point release for Univention Corporate Server (UCS) 4.3 is now available, which includes a number of security updates and various new features. New: UCS maintenance mode UCS 4.3-2 now offers a maintenance mode for importing release updates via Univention Management Console (UMC). UMC is the web-based, graphical user interface for […]

In the UCS Dashboard app, we now have the first (beta) version of a new dashboard based on the Open Source solutions Grafana® and Prometheus. The app allows administrators to check the status of domains and individual servers on different dashboards quickly and simply. The dashboards can be accessed simply via a web browser, access […]

Learn in this article how to set up a fully functional mail server. As e-mails are today an essential part of business communication, we recommend to embed the mail server as a central service into the IT of your organization. Let me show you here not only how to do this but also explain the […]

Univention Corporate Server has featured a ‘portal page’ since UCS 4.2. It is like a sort of homepage for the workstation that you can customize for each of your users – from both a technical and visual perspective. Today, I would like to tell you more about exactly how it works.

The central management of a heterogeneous network has always been UCS’ strength. This was our goal from the beginning to provide a platform that bridges the Linux/Windows worlds. But how does the synchronization between UCS and Microsoft Windows actually work? The problem is that Windows doesn’t speak the same language as UCS. They don’t support […]

We released UCS 4.3-1, the first point release for Univention Corporate Server (UCS) 4.3. In addition to a number of security updates, it also brings various new features. The diagnostics module of the Univention Management Console (UMC), for example, now provides further functional tests. These help administrators to check the “health” of the server and […]