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At UW-River Falls, students who are employed as student employees have a separate (Active Directory) credential for their work vs. their academic career. The username is similar (starts with an "S" vs. a "W") but both include the same ID number assigned to the individual (for life). Student email accounts ...

University of Wisconsin-River Falls has been utilizing Microsoft Identity Manager (MIM) as well since 2010, and I've been watching mumblings about its future for a few years without anything specific. I think its days are numbered in favor of using Azure, but I also responded to an inquiry earlier this ...

Mehdi, We protect our Titanium web portal with Shibboleth. I don't know that it really qualifies as "implementing SSO" since the application itself doesn't know anything about it and doesn't know who's visiting. We are just blocking access to view the site without logging in. -Robert ------------ ...

We've been utilizing email addresses that were independent of network login IDs for at least 25 years, possibly as long as we've had email. We've actually changed our login ID scheme during that time period (without changing email addresses) and moved email platforms from UNIX to Exchange (local) and ...

I greatly appreciate vendors that have good SAML 2.0 support. If at all feasible, I'd also recommend supporting something other than email address as a primary identifier. People (including students) change names for a variety of reasons and my institution will change an email address on request to accommodate ...

We do not offer lifetime accounts either. We send two notices prior to access to the account being removed (1 year post graduation), one at 60 days and another at 15, with clear instructions on what they should do for saving data and/or forwarding email. I think we average 2-3 requests per month for ...

I find the email delivery to be pretty essential to my participation in lists. It's too easy to push off "checking the forums" if I'm not looking for something in particular. Emails I can tag as a to-do if I want to follow up on a topic later, and for some of the things I follow, are far more timely ...