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Digital Opportunities in Education Simply Too Good to Waste
What is the current situation? Compared with other developed countries, Germany’s pupils, teachers, and curricula are lagging far behind in terms of digital education and media skills. The German Minister for Education, Johanna Wanka, has identified two principal reasons for this, which will now be addressed in the new DigitalPakt#D strategy. One the one hand […]
Cool Solutions – Redmine: project management
What are Cool Solutions? At Univention we define Cool Solutions as solutions which expand UCSs with expedient and useful functions and which are deployed successfully by our customers. We regularly present these solutions in Wiki as Cool Solutions articles. The Univention blog is a collection of the most popular Cool Solutions. Today, we will be […]
Release of UCS 4.2 planned for April 2017
After having released a new version of UCS with new features each November for the last few years, we have decided this year to reschedule the release of UCS 4.2 for April 2017. There are a number of reasons for this move, one of the primary ones being the migration of apps from the App […]
UCC 3.0 Now Verified as Citrix Ready
A new major version of Univention Corporate Client (UCC), Version 3.0, was released in mid-August. Due to a problem with Citrix Receiver, however, Citrix was not fully supported in that version. Thanks to an update, it has now proved possible to resolve the issue, and complete Citrix support with UCS is now guaranteed once again. […]
Integrate Cloud Service Google Apps for Work in UCS
Browser-supported Office solutions such as Office 365 or Google Apps for Work (now G Suite) make mobile working much easier and reduce administrative efforts, because they are not anymore installed on the computer but run in the cloud. Administrators don’t need to maintain license lists anymore, nor do regular software updates, and incompatibility issues are […]
Ansible Modules for the Automation of UCS-Specific Tasks
As a long-term Univention partner, we at Adfinis Sygroup operate UCS environments for many of our customers. We employ Ansible for automation when running different Linux distributions as it standardizes the roll-out of UCS among other things. Up until now there weren’t any Ansible modules available for UCS-specific tasks. To remedy this, we developed modules […]
Cool Solution Moodle – For Cooperative Learning
What are “Cool Solutions”? Cool Solutions is the name we use to describe Univention solutions which expand UCS with practical, advantageous functions and which we successfully employ for our customers. These solutions are regularly showcased in the Univention Wiki in the form of Cool Solutions articles. In this article I would like to introduce the […]
How to Integrate with LDAP: “Generic LDAP Connection”
In the blog article series “How to integrate with LDAP”, we introduce a whole range of different options and possibilities for how the LDAP provided by UCS can be expanded or used in cooperation with other services. In the first section of this article, “Typical Configuration Options”, I will be using an example to demonstrate […]
“Kopano to go, please!”
…or: How do I set up my own mail and communication server in just 30 minutes? That’s the question I asked myself when my daughter got her first smartphone and asked for an e-mail address. I needed something which was easy to use (I’m no Linux whiz) and compatible with both the web and smartphones, […]
Brief Introduction: Bring Your Own Device (BYOD)
The term “bring your own device” also known by the acronyms “BYOD” and “BYOT” refers to the concept of organizations and companies allowing their employees to bring their private, mobile devices to the office and use them. This can present a number of advantages for both employees and organizations alike, for example: Potential for cost […]
