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How can centralized school IT be successfully implemented in a rural district with 85 schools? The Wetteraukreis demonstrates how to establish a reliable digital infrastructure using UCS@school, clear processes, and a strong team. Key factors for success include automation, data protection, and direct on-site support. The Wetteraukreis is located north of Frankfurt am Main and, [...]

With Nubus for Kubernetes, you now have an Open Source solution that makes identity and access management in Kubernetes environments simple and centralized. We'll show you how Kubernetes keeps your containers on course—and who's really at the helm of your cluster. In the world of modern IT infrastructure, Kubernetes has taken the helm—especially when applications [...]

Digital education needs a reliable technical foundation - and this can only be created if you have it in your own hands. For us in Lübeck, it was therefore clear that our school IT must be centrally manageable, secure and independent of large IT groups. This is precisely why we rely on the open source [...]

In the city of Flensburg, we have very successfully implemented a central school IT infrastructure in recent years and decisively advanced digitalization. By implementing UCS@school, we were able to create a central IT infrastructure that improves the learning environment for pupils and significantly reduces the administrative tasks of teachers. Turning a Patchwork into a Functioning [...]

Since the announcement of Nubus at the Univention Summit in January 2024, Univention has invested a lot of work in creating the accompanying documentation. This blog post gives an insight into how product documentation has developed at Univention in general. And which principles Univention applied to Nubus in particular. It's for people with an interest [...]

With the release of UCS@school 5.2, we are taking the next big step in digital school IT! Our education platform offers school authorities a powerful, central Identity & Access Management (IAM) that is easy to manage and enables the integration of proven IT services. This provides optimum support for digital teaching and simplifies many school [...]

The first patch level release since the release of UCS 5.2 brings updates to the Debian base as well as improvements in the performance of Nubus and for the self-service functions - for both UCS 5.0 and UCS 5.2. Performance Improvements in the Directory Manager In close cooperation with our customers, we are constantly looking [...]

As of January 2025, electronic invoicing is now mandatory for B2B transactions in Germany. That means it's time to get up to speed! The good news for UCS users? There's no need to invest in additional software—EGroupware, available through the Univention App Center, now includes the E-Invoicing app, a built-in module that fully supports e-invoicing. [...]

Want faster websites, reduced bandwidth usage, and complete control over who can access what? The Proxy Server/Web Cache (Squid) app from the Univention App Center has you covered. It acts as both a powerful web proxy and caching server, storing frequently accessed pages to speed up load times and optimize network traffic. Plus, with flexible [...]

Does your HR department ask for fast and standardized onboarding and offboarding for internal and external teams? Does your helpdesk want SSO access to all essential apps to reduce password reset requests? Do your department heads need independent user and group management to quickly grant their employees access to the right applications? Is your compliance [...]