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What is Squid? Squid is a caching proxy employed primarily for web content delivered via the protocols HTTP, HTTPS, and even FTP. Squid stores websites and their content in a temporary cache, making them available to a number of clients simultaneously. Consequently, the use of Squid makes it possible to speed up the response times […]

When recently assisting a customer in choosing a new cloud service provider, the providers of choice offered 95%, 99%, and 99.9% availability labeling their service “High Availability”. For the human brain and considering a scale from 0% to 100% all of these numbers sound rather good, and we would naturally think, that these services almost […]

Asterisk is a leading, freely available voice over IP (VoIP) solution that companies can employ as an Open Source software without license fees. Originally designed by Mark Spencer at the U.S. company Digium in 1999, the solution is now being continually further developed by a growing development community around the world. In addition, it offers […]

The school IT service in the rural district of Kassel, Germany, is responsible for the maintenance and operation of the IT infrastructure in 72 schools counting a total of 25,000 pupils and 2,000 members of staff. Support of decentralized structures as rural district Our IT support is based in the media center in Hofgeismar, but […]

More than two years after the start of one of the largest projects in which Univention has been involved to date, a new mail platform with over 30 million managed end users finally went online in late 2016. UCS takes care of the identity management duties for all the user accounts. I first reported on […]

We are pleased to present the monitoring solution NOCTUA® Athene as a Docker-based app in the Univention App Center for UCS 4.2. NOCTUA® Athene is a flexibly configurable solution for the detection of failures on any number of systems, hardware and software. By using predefined protocols (e.g. SNMP, WMI, SSH, Ping, or SQL) as well as […]

With UCS 4.2-1 the first point release for Univention Corporate Server 4.2 is now available. It includes various detail improvements and error corrections. Some of the most important changes are: The forwarding of e-mails per each mail user can now be saved in the UCS management system. Improvements in changing the password in the Univention […]

The municipal authorities of the German city of Fulda in the state of Hesse are responsible for the administration and operation of the IT in 23 schools in Fulda – including 2 vocational schools and 2 grammar schools – for a total of 13,000 pupils and 1,000 members of teaching staff. Unlike in the rest […]

The Kaspersky Security for Linux Mailserver app was developed by bitbone AG in cooperation with Univention and Kaspersky Lab support. The proven security product from Kaspersky is thus also available for the widely used Univention Corporate Server. Thanks to the adaptations, it can be easily installed and deployed via the App Center.

Listener modules support you in your administrative work by synchronizing and controlling all changes in the UCS’ OpenLDAP Einacross all connected services – Learn how to build and use them! You are surely using a variety of (cloud) services in your organization and, if required, these services will make changes to your directory service, either Active Directory […]