EDUCAUSE | Presented at EDUCAUSE Annual Conferences and Directories

Architecting the Institutional Directory Service: Advanced Issues, Problems, and Solutions

drupal — Tue, 06 Nov 2007 11:04:17 -0600

Institutional directory service architects and designers face a number of unique technical challenges in higher education. Directory architects from the University of Southern California and the University of Maryland, Baltimore County, will share lessons learned while developing and implementing directory services at their institutions.

Topics will include designing access controls and institutional object classes; using federation identities, Shibboleth, and administrative tools; managing multiple data sources, members, accounts, and guests; mapping data sources to standard object classes; handling interactive and bulk updates; optimizing and monitoring performance, replication, and integration with external authentication systems; and managing groups and privileges.

The solutions offered are based on 14-plus years of practical experience working with the Netscape/iPlanet/Sun directory products. This seminar will focus on intermediate to advanced issues, and most information will be widely applicable to and suitable for any institutional directory effort.

Care and Feeding of the Institutional Directory Service: Advanced Issues, Problems, and Solutions

drupal — Wed, 18 Oct 2006 15:56:45 -0500

Directory architects from the University of Southern California and the University of Maryland, Baltimore County, will share lessons learned while developing and implementing directory services at their institutions. Topics will include designing access controls, managing multiple data sources, mapping data sources to standard object classes, designing institutional object classes, handling interactive and bulk updates, optimizing and monitoring performance, and managing groups and privileges. We will also look at administrative tools, replication, and integration with external authentication systems.

Enterprise Directory Design: Facing the Initial Challenges

drupal — Wed, 18 Oct 2006 15:56:46 -0500

As vendor products become increasingly capable of integration with institutional directory services, an enterprise directory service is no longer a matter of "if" but "when." The presenter, and identity services architect at the University of Southern California, will explain the unique challenges that higher education directory design teams face.

LDAP and Active Directory: Working Together to Manage Identity

drupal — Tue, 01 Nov 2005 12:34:33 -0600

Managing identities across multiple systems and platforms is challenging. Learn how the University of Calgary provides unified user authentication and authorization services across the enterprise via an integrated metadirectory built on LDAP and Active Directory.

Leveraging Data Warehousing Assets in Enterprise Directory Design

drupal — Tue, 01 Nov 2005 12:34:34 -0600

An enterprise directory service is a political and technological challenge. Brendan Bellina, Identity Services Architect for the University of Southern California and former data warehousing administrator, will explain similarities in enterprise directory and data warehousing design and how data warehousing skills can be leveraged when designing an enterprise directory.

Directory Services for Multimedia: The New ITU-T Standard H.350

drupal — Wed, 25 Aug 2004 09:42:56 -0500

The H.350 "Directory Services Architecture for Multimedia Conferencing" standard provides a uniform way to store and locate information related to video and voice-over-IP in LDAP directories that are linked seamlessly to directory and identity management systems already in place at universities. This work provides white pages and a foundation for secure videoconferencing.

Account Management, The Next Generation: Unified Directories at the Rochester Institute of Technology

drupal — Fri, 20 Aug 2004 11:33:01 -0500

RIT has developed an efficient, low-cost, computer account management system to provide our students, faculty, and staff with a secure, seamless end-user experience. This presentation will demonstrate the administrative toolset and the end-user self-service applications for accounts and computers.

Directory-Enabling Applications: Techniques from the Trenches

drupal — Fri, 20 Aug 2004 11:05:45 -0500

Integrating applications and services with an institution directory service requires a flexible directory architecture and an understanding of the myriad integration approaches. The Notre Dame directory architect will share his real-world experience using an LDAP directory server and Microsoft Active Directory to integrate Sendmail, WebCT, the Campus Portal, and others.

Leveraging Campus Directories: Lightweight Authorization and Group Management

drupal — Thu, 19 Aug 2004 15:20:39 -0500

After implementing enterprise directories, institutions quickly discover that directory groups are essential to providing lightweight authorization services and provisioning applications. This session will offer an overview of and strategies to address the challenges of providing these valuable services. This session is offered in collaboration with the NSF Middleware Initiative-EDIT Consortium of Internet2 and EDUCAUSE.

Unexpected Legal Issues Related to Community Building Efforts

drupal — Tue, 11 Nov 2003 16:47:01 -0600

The University of Central Florida's home-grown community building tool "eCommunity" provides an easy way for faculty and students to see each other's names, e-mails, photos, and biographies. Unexpected issues such as privacy, FERPA, stalking, cheating, and advertising have recently threatened the very existence of this popular tool.