From Practice

Due to the progress in our technical basis in general and because of the usage habits of our customers, we have revised the pricing model for Univention Enterprise subscriptions. It takes effect on December 1, 2022, for all new customers.

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.

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.

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 […]

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 […]

Every day, a lot of things happen in a UCS domain, for example, users log in and out, maybe forget a password and fail to log in to the portal, admins install software or remove apps that are no longer needed, change a forgotten user password, create new user groups or delete several accounts in […]

The Univention Corporate Server (UCS) technical training has long been an established and essential part of our service portfolio. It ensures the successful use of our products UCS and UCS@school in organizational IT. In a two-day seminar, our customers received a detailed introduction to UCS. They learned about its administration and configuration and were able […]

More about Identity and Service Providers, SAML, OpenID Connect and other technical Requirements for User Authentication 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 […]

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 […]

In the blog article series “How to integrate with LDAP”, we introduce a whole range of different options and possibilities for how you can use LDAP provided by UCS to expand or use in cooperation with other services. In the first section of this article, “Typical Configuration Options”, I will be using an example to […]