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Welcome to our first journey into the world of Univention applications! In this new blog series, we will regularly present exciting applications from our App Center. In the first episode, we focus on three tools for different environments: Whether you’re using Univention Corporate Server as a single domain controller, integrating the server into an existing […]

We have added a new member to our portfolio of product documents: The manual “Univention Corporate Server for Debian and Ubuntu Administrators” is now publicly available. This document has been specially developed to make it easier for people with an administrative background in Debian GNU/Linux and Ubuntu to get started with UCS and to avoid […]

The sixth patch level release for Univention Corporate Server (UCS) 5.0 is available with Univention Corporate Server 5.0-6. It contains all bug fixes and security updates released since version 5.0-5, including for PostgreSQL, Samba and a number of Univention’s own packages. Also included are various preparations for the upcoming UCS 5.2.

On November 21, we released the Alpha version of UCS 5.2. It is the harbinger for the first minor release since the release of UCS 5.0 in May 2021. The Alpha version is intended to give a first impression of the upcoming UCS 5.2, in particular the basic packages of the distribution have been updated; […]

In today’s digital world, we depend more than ever on efficient and reliable software solutions to optimize our business processes and to modernize IT for education. At Univention, we offer solutions that meet the needs of our customers and users. But even the best software can occasionally raise questions or pose challenges.

As announced, we will introduce Keycloak as the default identity provider (IDP) with UCS 5.2. That raises the question of how long the previous IDP based on SimpleSAMLphp will be supported in UCS. In this article, I explain why we have decided to link the maintenance period of SimpleSAMLphp with that of UCS Release 5.0 […]

Univention Corporate Server 5.0-5 is the fifth point release for Univention Corporate Server (UCS) 5.0. It contains all erratas released since version 5.0-4 for bug fixes, performance improvements and security updates for Samba, Linux, OpenSSH, Bind and Python, among others.

Since last year, the single sign-on solution Keycloak has been a central component of our identity and access management strategy. With Keycloak, third-party applications can log on to the system using standard protocols such as SAML and OpenID Connect. This means that users only have to log on once centrally and can then access all […]

Since our last blog article on the future role model, we have made significant progress in transforming the UCS role and rights model. The custom role design, currently under development, is taking shape. In this article, we would like to focus on introducing two promising new components: One of them allows you to evaluate the […]

The patch level release UCS@school 5.0 v4 from the beginning of August comes with a whole range of improvements for our school software solution UCS@school which I would like to share with you in this article.