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March 21, 2024

Talent Spotlight - Gary Gilbert

Showcasing the people of Unicon through our Talent Spotlight - Gary Gilbert
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February 01, 2024

Users May Lose Access to LMS Apps As Chrome Blocks 3rd Party Cookies for All in 2024: Are You Ready?

Ready for Chrome’s 3rd party cookie block in 2024? Users may lose access to LMS apps. Learn about new specifications to adhere to the security measures of LTI
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January 03, 2024

Talent Spotlight - Dawn Edmunds

Showcasing the people of Unicon through our Talent Spotlight - Dawn Edmunds
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December 05, 2023

Security Is Only Limited By The People Who Practice It

Learn to safeguard your digital life effectively. Explore key practices, from encryption to vigilant behavior, and become an information security artisan.
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September 25, 2023

Talent Spotlight - Gary Thompson

Showcasing the people of Unicon through our Talent Spotlight - Gary Thompson
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August 03, 2023

Getting Ready for Back to School - Fall 2023

Ensure a seamless back-to-school transition with Unicon's 30 years of expertise. Download the Back-to-School Checklist for best practices in handling technology challenges, ensuring student engagement, and smooth operations. #EdTech #BacktoSchool
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July 24, 2023

Unlocking the True Potential of Outsourcing: The Power of Domain Expertise

Unlock the true potential of outsourcing by leveraging the power of domain expertise. Gain insights from an experienced EdTech market professional.
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June 27, 2023

Talent Spotlight - Cary Brown

Showcasing the people of Unicon through our Talent Spotlight - Cary Brown
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June 26, 2023

1EdTech Highlights Successes in AI to Enhance the Learning Experience

Summary of the 2023 Learning Impact conference by 1EdTech. Conference focus on the future of AI in education, covering topics such as fair AI access, improved learning experiences, and data privacy.
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June 07, 2023

Navigating Combined LTI and OneRoster Implementations

The complexity of integrating Learning Tools with Student Information Systems (SISs) requires careful planning and consideration. This article discusses the challenges and considerations for achieving interoperability and leveraging data to enhance personalized learning experiences.
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May 22, 2023

Do You Have the Right Ingredients to Achieve Your Strategic Goals?

Unicon: Strategic staffing for educational technology industry. Fill expertise gaps, enhance team potential, accelerate time to market. Seasoned professionals for success.
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April 20, 2023

Where is My Integration Strategy?

Higher education is getting a handle on fast-paced digital transformation. Where does interoperability fit into your integration strategy?
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April 13, 2023

LTI FAQs: Highlights from 1EdTech's Best Practices Guide

Learn about best practices for LTI tools, including rostering, Deep Linking, course copy, and the Assignments & Grades Service. Discover how to handle challenging use cases and implement the latest LTI specifications with Unicon's expert guidance.
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April 12, 2023

Information Security and AI

This article discusses the potential of Large Language Model chatbots, their information security and privacy concerns, and guidelines for responsible usage.
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April 03, 2023

Why Edtech Companies Should Be Watching Ed-Fi Developments

Adopting Ed-Fi standards is for K-12 school districts and across the Education Technology industry Unicon serves.
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March 29, 2023

Talent Spotlight - Tasha Dannenbring

Showcasing the people of Unicon through our Talent Spotlight
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March 21, 2023

When Is the Right Time to Involve IT in a CBE Program Implementation?

In this blog from Unicon, we learn when is the right time to involve IT in a Competency-Based Education (CBE) Implementation program.
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March 02, 2023

The Latest Enhancements to 1EdTech LTI Core, AGS, and Deep Linking Standards

Highlights of changes to the LTI 1.3 Core specification, Assignments & Grades Service (AGS), Deep Linking, and the Best Practices for LTI Assessment Tools guide.
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February 23, 2023

Tooling for Competency-Based Education

Competency Management tools that provide a breadth of capability but often at the expense of depth of functionality.
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February 14, 2023

What LMS Integration Strategy Will Set Me Apart in the 2023 K-12 Market?

What do K12 institution IT administrators look for in an edtech vendor or product? Edtech vendors are finding themselves faced with increasingly long lists of requirements, set in place by institutions, in order to be considered for adoption at the school, district, or state level.
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January 23, 2023

LTI for Groups, Grading, Privacy, Analytics, and More!

the progress that has been made in the advancement of interoperability between educational tools and Learning Management Systems (LMSs) through 1EdTech’s Learning Tool Interoperability (LTI) specification
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January 11, 2023

Q3 2022 uPortal Open Source Support Briefing

uPortal Steering Committee Update The following three areas of discussion were covered by the committee: Community, Development, and Documentation
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December 14, 2022

1EdTech Highlights Successes in Using Badges, VR, and Analytics to Enhance the Learner Experience

1edtech highlights successes in using badges VR and analytics to enhance the learner experience
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November 01, 2022

The Solution for Third-Party Cookies in LTI 1.3 Has Arrived

The Solution for Third Party Cookies in LTI 1.3 Has Arrived
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October 21, 2022

Our Future Is BRIGHT! What I Learned From Our Summer College Interns.

What I Learned From Our Summer College Interns.
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August 22, 2022

A Good Project Manager Is Worth Their Weight In Gold

The project manager's responsibility is to look at deliverables holistically and plan to get the work done based on customer commitments, deadlines, and resource availability.
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Applications and product development
August 10, 2022

Making Your Vision a Reality

Managing scope throughout the development process for a new product implementation is always tough, and it takes a strong project manager and product owner to keep everyone on task.
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Identity and access management
July 18, 2022

The Modern Data Stack Components

The great thing about the modern data stack is it is still evolving and will probably continue to evolve indefinitely.
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Applications and product development
June 21, 2022

Q2 2022 uPortal Open Source Support Briefing

Open Source Support briefing for uPortal is an opportunity to share the contributions performed by Unicon on behalf of the OSS program
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Applications and product development
June 09, 2022

EDU-API: The Next Generation SIS API is Almost Ready for its Debut

The value of Edu-API to the Education Industry is to create a common pattern for integration between systems in order to make data available across the digital ecosystem
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Applications and product development
May 20, 2022

Making Large Classes Feel Small Again: Faculty Driven Learning Analytics

My impressions of the EDUCAUSE Connect: Student Success Analytics Practitioners Group webinar held in December 2021 on “Making Large Classes Feel Small Again: Faculty-Driven Learning Analytics
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April 27, 2022

Recap and Reflections from nSquared 2022

Reflections from nSquared 2022 a conference that brought together thought leaders interested in the technology integration changes facing Higher Education
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April 11, 2022

Easy First Steps for Ed-Fi Data Standard Adoption

The Educator Prep Data Model (EPDM) Starter Kit, which leverages the Ed-Fi Data Standard. Designed to give schools an easy first step to adopting the larger EPDM
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April 11, 2022

Onboard Your New Education Customers for This Back-To-School Season

education technology companies are striving to step up their onboarding experience
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March 21, 2022

This Is Not Your Dad's Data Warehouse: Optimizing Your Data Architecture

Every iteration of data architecture targets a specific segment of the organization in order to improve their relationship with data.
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February 16, 2022

New Articulations of Learning and the IMS Digital Credential Summit

The IMS Digital Credentials Summit has grown to join the top tier of conferences focused on next generation learning articulation and the intersection of education and employment.
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February 01, 2022

What Does Your Organization Want To Be When You Grow Up?

Helping to define product strategy, customer onboarding, comprehensive testing, security reviews, and people/process changes. Unicon is an impartial third-party.
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Applications and product development
January 27, 2022

Support for Open Source: Flexible and There When You Need It!

Real life examples from a few of Unicon's Open Source Support subscribers
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Identity and access management
November 10, 2021

Building Your Partner Ecosystem

The stakes are raised around student retention and success, vendor partnerships play a critical role in an institution's technology delivery.
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November 01, 2021

Building Trust in Data Through Governance

Building Trust in Data Through Governance
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October 25, 2021

EDUCAUSE 2021: Back Together Again

EDUCAUSE 2021 Preview of sessions from Unicon
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September 24, 2021

Highlights from IMS Tech Congress 2021

Highlights from IMS Tech Congress 2021
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September 24, 2021

Reflections from ASU+GSV Summit 2021

Reflections from ASU+GSV Summit 2021by Linda Feng
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September 23, 2021

Terracotta - An Innovative Experimental Research Platform for the LMS

Terracotta from Indiana University - An Innovative Experimental Research Platform for the LMS
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Applications and product development
September 20, 2021

Back to School Reflections - September 2021

Reflections on some of the changes our local school district and university have implemented.
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August 18, 2021

Algorithmic Discrimination and Avoiding Data Bias

AI is a way for computer algorithms to make decisions based on pattern detection and coded rules, and it turns out that the way algorithms are coded can be biased.
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Applications and product development
June 30, 2021

Smoke Testing CAS Distributed Ticket Registries

How do you verify that Hazelcast ticket registry is functioning properly? CAS server provides distributed Ticket Registry implementations out of the box.
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Identity and access management
June 29, 2021

Finally, An Easier Way to Onboard New Learning Apps: Meet LTI® 1.3 Dynamic Registration

LTI Dynamic Registration Specification, An Easier Way to Onboard New Learning Apps
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Applications and product development
May 26, 2021

Building a Solid Foundation for Your IAM Strategy

November, 2019 To be truly useful, an IAM assessment needs a few important components. The starting point should be discussions and interviews with key stakeholders within your institution or organization.
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Identity and access management
April 27, 2021

Writing eLearning for English as a Foreign Language (EFL) Learners

Writing eLearning for English as a Foreign Language (EFL) Learners
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Applications and product development
March 23, 2021

Support for Standards First

Unicon signed the IMS Global’s Standards First pledge. Committed to using standards for the digital education ecosystem to improve the integrated experience for the learner.
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Applications and product development
March 16, 2021

Unicon's Philosophy of Instructional Design

Four tenets in our instructional design: primary student audience is understood, the technology used is appropriate, obstacles to learning are removed, and learners are assessed
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Applications and product development
March 08, 2021

Migrate to InCommon MDQ Apereo CAS Server

InCommon is a widely used federation in Higher Education. They have recently created the Metadata Distribution Query service and protocol (MDQ).
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Identity and access management
March 03, 2021

Improve Your Customer's Onboarding Experience When it Comes to LTI Integration

Unicon has put together a set of LTI Integration onboarding best practices which have shown to help reduce the burden of customer onboarding.
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Applications and product development
February 22, 2021

LEARN Evaluations Help You Get From Here to There

Unicon’s LEARN evaluation methodology walks our customers through a five-phase process to help them reach their destination.
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Applications and product development
January 26, 2021

Migrate to InCommon MDQ Shibboleth IdP

InCommon is a widely used single sign-on federation in Higher Education. It has recently created the Metadata Distribution Query service and protocol (MDQ). The benefits of this new service are numerous.
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Identity and access management
November 02, 2020

Q2 & Q3 2020 openEQUELLA Open Source Support Briefing

The periodic openEQUELLA Open Source Support (OSS) Briefing shares Unicon's contributions performed on behalf of the OSS program.
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Applications and product development
October 06, 2020

What is Your Digital First Impression?

An evaluation of your learner’s workflow from an application, integration, and data interaction perspective will allow you to be better informed.
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September 02, 2020

How Can Instructional Designers Support Faculty?

September, 2020 There are many steps instructional designers can take when working with faculty to move a traditional course online. One of the first is to help faculty members identify the objectives of the course.
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Applications and product development
September 02, 2020

Why Upgrade to Shibboleth Identity Provider Version 4 in 2020?

September, 2020 There is a new major version of the Shibboleth Identity Provider (Shib IdP), 4.x series, there are several reasons to upgrade to v4 before the end of 2020.
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Identity and access management
August 11, 2020

Grouper Evaluation: Automate & Secure Learner Access

August, 2020 A Grouper Implementation Assessment can provide an IT organization with an outline of what is already in place, what business rules and processes drive the current status, and what changes are desired.
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Identity and access management
July 06, 2020

Amazon AppStream 2.0: Bringing Your Computer Lab to Your Students

July, 2020 One of the challenges that caught a lot of institutions off guard was finding a solution for delivering software to students and faculty that is normally only available in a computer lab.
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Cloud services
June 30, 2020

LTI Spotlight Series

June, 2020 We are starting a new series called “LTI Spotlight,” where we find and showcase different examples of what people are doing with LTI.
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Applications and product development
May 21, 2020

Cloud Migration Strategy: Trust You Are Ready to Perform a Migration and Then Do It!

May, 2020 Part 3: One thing to understand about migration plans is that they are not cookie-cutter plans. If you have read Part 1 and Part 2 of this blog series, then you have understood and conquered the “paralysis by analysis” phase, and the “refining your plan “ phase.
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Cloud services
May 14, 2020

Q4 2019 & Q1 2020 openEQUELLA Open Source Support Briefing

May, 2020 The periodic openEQUELLA Open Source Support (OSS) Briefing is an opportunity to share the contributions performed on behalf of the OSS program, highlight Unicon's perspective on contributions, share happenings in the community, and describe opportunities to engage further with Unicon.
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Applications and product development
May 05, 2020

Reaching the Unreachable?

May, 2020 COVID-19 is really pushing forward some creative problem solving. I am thankful to have educational administrators working tirelessly to serve the needs of the entire community.
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Applications and product development
April 27, 2020

Cloud Migration Strategy: How to Know What You Don't Know

April, 2020 Part 2 of the Cloud Migration Strategy. Proper planning and preparation are two important factors in a successful migration into the Cloud. But the limiting factor for planning a tends to be not knowing *where* to start your cloud journey once you accept the fact that you *should* start the journey.
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Cloud services
March 27, 2020

Cloud Migration Strategy: The Timing is Always Right

March, 2020 Part 1 of the Cloud Migration Strategy. The decision making around how to move forward and enhance your current offerings or even just get started in the Cloud keeps getting more challenging. When should you step back and re-evaluate your efforts or think about developing a cloud strategy for the first time?
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Cloud services
February 17, 2020

Evaluating Course Performance

February, 2020 Finally, after months of effort your course is complete and ready to be published. Once the high-fives have finished you may wonder what is next. Evaluating the effectiveness of a course is an essential part of a course life cycle.
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Applications and product development
February 06, 2020

Chrome Version 80 Cookie Security Updates Can Break LTI

February, 2020 Chrome version 80 was released Tuesday, February 4th, 2020. In an effort to improve security and privacy across the web, this new version contains updates to its cookie handling that may break LTI tool launches if the tool is embedded in a tool platform’s page. The update was not included with the original release, but will be rolled out using a phased approach starting February 18, 2020.
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Applications and product development
December 10, 2019

Q3 2019 openEQUELLA Open Source Support Briefing

December, 2019 The quarterly openEQUELLA Open Source Support (OSS) Briefing is an opportunity to share the contributions performed on behalf of the OSS program, highlight Unicon's perspective on contributions, share happenings in the community, and describe opportunities to engage further with Unicon.
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Applications and product development
November 04, 2019

Agile in Real Life

November, 2019 Agile software development has been around for years and everyone wants in. How do you successfully manage your project in an agile fashion while still giving the business teams what they need with respect to budget, deliverables, and timeline when all of these items are at odds and go against the core Agile philosophies? Here is a real-life perspective of Agile project management from two Scrum Master, PMP, and Agile Practitioner Certified project managers.
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Applications and product development
May 07, 2019

Introducing Shibboleth IdP UI

May, 2019 Shibboleth is a widely adopted federated identity solution that provides web single sign-on authentication services both within organizations and across organizational boundaries.
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Identity and access management
May 02, 2019

Q1 2019 openEQUELLA Open Source Support Briefing

May, 2019 The quarterly openEQUELLA Open Source Support (OSS) Briefing is an opportunity to share the contributions performed on behalf of the OSS program, highlight Unicon's perspective on contributions, share happenings in the community, and describe opportunities to engage further with Unicon.
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Applications and product development
April 22, 2019

ECS Cluster Scaling in EC2 (Part 2)

April, 2019 This is the second entry of the ECS Scaling blog that covers how to properly scale the EC2 cluster of instances that are running your ECS Tasks. The ability to run your own cluster of EC2 instances with ECS is a viable solution.
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Cloud services
April 17, 2019

Customizing uPortal (Part 4)

April, 2019 Previously in this series, we covered suggestions on how to write customizations for uPortal 5 using Decorator and Strategy patterns. Here, our last post, we cover how to add such custom classes to your uPortal-start repo.
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Applications and product development
April 10, 2019

Customizing uPortal (Part 3)

April, 2019 Strategy pattern is a pattern that encapsulates more than one implementation of some feature and makes these implementations interchangeable. How is this done in practice? Let us continue with another real example from uPortal.
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Applications and product development
April 03, 2019

Customizing uPortal (Part 2)

April, 2019 You can use design patterns to limit custom code changes in uPortal 5. In this post, we provide a real example of applying Decorator to uPortal5.
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Applications and product development
March 26, 2019

Customizing uPortal (Part 1)

March, 2019 Release 5.0 of uPortal brought major changes to tooling, deployment, and split the uPortal repo in two. While there were several other changes, like renaming all the packages from org.jasig to org.apereo, the tooling, deployment and repo changes have a significant impact on customizing
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Applications and product development
January 25, 2019

Choices for IAM Application Docker Images

January, 2019 This is the third post in a three part series. In the first part, which was posted more than a year and a half ago, I described Unicon's IAM Docker images. In the second post, I listed the Internet2 TIER program's Docker images. In this, the final post, I discuss the pros and cons of the various versions of the images.
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Identity and access management
January 18, 2019

TIER Docker Images

January, 2019 This is the second posting in a three part series. In the first part, which was posted more than a year and a half ago, I described Unicon's IAM Docker images. In this post, I list the Internet2 TIER program's Docker images. In the final post, I discuss the pros and cons of the various related images.
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Identity and access management
January 11, 2019

Q4 2018 openEQUELLA Open Source Support Briefing

January, 2019 The quarterly openEQUELLA Open Source Support (OSS) Briefing is an opportunity to share the contributions performed on behalf of the OSS program, highlight Unicon's perspective on contributions, share happenings in the community, and describe opportunities to engage further with Unicon.
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Applications and product development
November 09, 2018

Q3 2018 openEQUELLA Open Source Support Briefing

November, 2018 - The quarterly openEQUELLA Open Source Support (OSS) Briefing is an opportunity to share the contributions performed on behalf of the OSS program, highlight Unicon's perspective on contributions, share happenings in the community, and describe opportunities to engage further with Unicon.
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Applications and product development
November 02, 2018

Apereo CAS High-Availability with Hazelcast and Kubernetes

November, 2018 - When it comes to deploying a highly available CAS server, one of the chief concerns is to choose a technology that is capable of sharing CAS-generated tickets across multiple server nodes. The task of managing and administering CAS tickets is handled today by a Ticket Registry component that is backed by a variety of technologies able to persist, manage, and distribute ticket objects across the entire CAS cluster. Perhaps the most popular and better-adopted option in this area is a ticket registry solution backed by Hazelcast.
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Cloud services
October 05, 2018

CAS Server: Interrupt Me, Please!

October, 2018 - Modern CAS (versions 5.2+) has an ability to interrupt authentication flow after primary authentication principal trust has been established. This ability enables CAS to execute an intermediary piece of application logic before continuing to establish Web Single Sign On session and routing requests back to target applications. These intermediary interrupt components are able to implement logic, for example, to present notification messages to the user, provide options for redirects to external services, etc.
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Identity and access management
August 31, 2018

midPoint SSO Integration with SAML2 Identity Providers

August, 2018 - midPoint is a comprehensive Identity Governance and Administration (IGA) platform, used by organizations around the world to deal with Identity Provisioning, Identity Governance and Compliance, along with Access Management. As for the identity being a security perimeter, midPoint keeps an organization's internal network and external resources safe.
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Identity and access management
August 30, 2018

Q2 2018 uPortal Open Source Support Briefing

August, 2018 - The quarterly uPortal Open Source Support (OSS) Briefing is an opportunity to share the contributions performed on behalf of the OSS program, highlight Unicon's perspective on contributions, and share happenings in the community along with opportunities to engage further with Unicon.
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Applications and product development
August 14, 2018

Continuous Delivery of Grouper using Jenkins and Docker

August, 2018 - Unicon recently completed a project for the Colorado School of Mines to setup a continuous integration/continuous delivery (CI/CD) pipeline that can be used as a template for their work modernizing their application deployment processes going forward. Because of the School of Mines participation in the TIER Campus Success Program, Internet2 Grouper and Evolveum midPoint were chosen as the target deployments of this work.
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Cloud services
August 09, 2018

Q2 2018 openEQUELLA Open Source Support Briefing

August, 2018 - The quarterly openEQUELLA Open Source Support (OSS) Briefing is an opportunity to share the contributions performed on behalf of the OSS program, highlight Unicon's perspective on contributions, and share happenings in the community along with opportunities to engage further with Unicon.
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Applications and product development
May 15, 2018

Q1 2018 uPortal Open Source Support Briefing

May, 2018 - The quarterly uPortal Open Source Support (OSS) Briefing is an opportunity to share the contributions performed on behalf of the OSS program, highlight Unicon's perspective on contributions, and share happenings in the community along with opportunities to engage further with Unicon.
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Applications and product development
May 09, 2018

Q1 2018 EQUELLA Open Source Support Briefing

May, 2018 - The quarterly openEQUELLA Open Source Support (OSS) Briefing is an opportunity to share the contributions performed on behalf of the OSS program, highlight Unicon's perspective on contributions, and share happenings in the community along with opportunities to engage further with Unicon.
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Applications and product development
February 15, 2018

Microservices with Spring Boot

February, 2018 - The term "microservices" appears in many technology journals these days. This blog addresses common questions including: "What are microservices, and more importantly, how are they a better solution than what's already out there? Also, if microservices are so great, how easy is it to develop microservices?" Microservices are stand-alone applications that break down functionality into fine-grained components that run and restart independently.
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Cloud services
February 02, 2018

Q4 2017 EQUELLA Open Source Support Briefing

February, 2018 - The quarterly EQUELLA Open Source Support (OSS) Briefing is an opportunity to share the contributions performed on behalf of the OSS program, highlight Unicon's perspective on contributions, and share happenings in the community along with opportunities to engage further with Unicon.
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Applications and product development
February 01, 2018

Q4 2017 uPortal Open Source Support Briefing

February, 2018 - The quarterly uPortal Open Source Support (OSS) Briefing is an opportunity to share the contributions performed on behalf of the OSS program, highlight Unicon's perspective on contributions, and share happenings in the community along with opportunities to engage further with Unicon.
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Applications and product development
January 05, 2018

Q3 2017 EQUELLA Open Source Support Briefing

January, 2018 - The Unicon EQUELLA team completed the very first Open Source Support (OSS) Periodic Briefing on October 26, 2017. This briefing included an overview of the Apereo Foundation and open source software, a status of the open sourcing initiative of EQUELLA, and how to get involved in the EQUELLA community. The technical presentation focused on a demonstration of enhancements that are a part of EQUELLA 6.5. The briefing wrapped up with an overview of the Unicon OSS program and how Unicon provides ongoing development for EQUELLA through sustaining engineering on behalf of OSS subscribers.
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Applications and product development
December 21, 2017

Q3 2017 uPortal Open Source Support Briefing

December, 2017 - The quarterly uPortal Open Source Support (OSS) Briefing is an opportunity to share the contributions performed on behalf of the OSS program, highlight Unicon's perspective on contributions, and share happenings in the community along with opportunities to engage further with Unicon.
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Applications and product development
June 30, 2017

Identity and Access Management Semi-Annual OSS Briefing

June, 2017 - The Identity and Access Management (IAM) team completed the first of two Open Source Support Briefings for 2017. This briefing included a collaborative discussion on completed development donated to the IAM open source communities (CAS, Shibboleth, and Grouper) via the OSS program; along with highlights on IAM community events, trends, and activities. The technical presentation suggests recommendations and best practices based on recent development. The briefing wraps up with an open forum allowing for all to engage with their suggestions, ideas, and thoughts on future development.
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Identity and access management
June 02, 2017

AWS ECS Auto Scaling (Part 1)

June, 2017 - A common task I run into with clients is setting up the scaling policies for an ECS Cluster. Users typically understand the concept of auto-scaling in AWS, but when it comes to an ECS cluster there are two things to consider when scaling.
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Cloud services
February 24, 2017

uPortal Tech Keeps Up with the Times

February, 2017 - A few years ago, I sat in on a presentation where a portal vendor pitched their product as a modern replacement over a stagnant uPortal. Unfortunately, the vendor had not kept up on the uPortal project. uPortal had undergone a major release with lots of UI and front-end enhancements since they looked at it. The institution stayed with uPortal.
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Applications and product development
December 19, 2016

Unicon IAM Update/Briefing - September 15, 2016

December, 2016 - Unicon’s IAM team had their a quarterly Open Source Support briefing. The host of the webinar was Charise Arrowood (Sr.Director, Identity & Access Management Services), and the presenters were Mike Grady (IAM Architect), Dmitriy Kopylenko (IAM Developer), and John Gasper (IAM Consultant)
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Identity and access management
November 01, 2016

You joined the InCommon Federation, now what?

November, 2016 - You have paid your InCommon membership dues, your federation admins have been vetted, and you even uploaded your IdP metadata in the InCommon Federation Manager website. Like many new members, you are probably asking yourself, "Now what?"
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Identity and access management
November 05, 2015

Successfully Integrating a SAML Service Provider

November, 2015 - A common task when running a SAML Identity Provider (IdP) is integrating additional SAML service providers (SP). This task is not a trivial one, especially when compared to integrating CAS clients. New IdP administrators can run into problems before they even start with the technical task at hand because they aren't given the correct information to be successful.
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Identity and access management
February 02, 2015

LDAP TLS/SSL Config for the Shibboleth IdP Explained

February, 2015 -Many Shibboleth IdP adopters use LDAP as an authentication provider and an attribute source. There is always the question of "do we need to configure TLS/SSL for the IdP's connection to the LDAP server(s)?" My response is "always," because we need to protect the user's credentials even in the most trusted network.
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Identity and access management

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