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One of the main projects in 2012 at the University has been the restructuring of the University's central services filestore service and how access to the filestores is controlled. Previously administration for filestores involved administrators manually updating access groups membership lists, which often meant that as staff moved departments or left the University, their access was not updated. With the use of Grouper this has now changed, access to filestores is now based on departmental Grouper groups, with membership of these groups being automated based on the University's corporate data. This means as staff join/leave or move around the University they are automatically granted the correct access to filestores, dramatically decreasing the amount of administration required. The delegation of administration for these groups has now been passed on to the University's IT service desk, desktop support teams and in some instances individuals outside of the IT department, all through the use of the Lite Ui. This allows the end users to take control of who should have access to the resources, and allows IT resources to be channelled into development of new services rather than having to worry about maintaining group memberships. Access to over 400 network shares are now managed by Grouper groups.
Another project which that has incorporated the use of Grouper is work around "hot desking" and ensuring that staff members have access to the applications they require wherever they work. Our application support team have created over 40 groups representing different applications such as Skype, Filezilla, with departments/individuals assigned membership to these groups. These groups are provisioned into the Active Directory so that they can be used with the deployment of Microsoft's App-v and RDS so that applications follow the user.
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