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Newcastle University has now been using Grouper for over 3 years, with one of the first use cases being to use Grouper to manage access to the University's wiki service. The use of Grouper has grown significantly over the years, with the loading in of HR and student data vastly improving the level of delegation and access control we can now provide. Recent developments have seen us making use of Grouper's LDAPPC connector to provision groups from Grouper into the Active Directory.
This page will provide provides details of how we are using Grouper at Newcastle University, providing examples of configurations for certain the uses of some of the components of Grouper. It will also provide links to outputs from projects that Newcastle University have run which are focused around the use of Grouper.
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The main development was the provisioning of groups from Grouper into our Active Directory. Up until the start of Prior to 2012, we only provisioned a select number of groups into the AD on a case by case basis. In April 2012 the decision was made to provision all groups that reside in our Application stem within Grouper into the AD. There were a number of reasons for doing this, first of all to improve the resilience of Shibboleth querying group memberships from Grouper (previously Shibboleth queried the Grouper database directly). The second reason was to extend the use of groups past controlling just web resources, so now a group could be set-up which controls access to a wiki, blog, filestore and so on.
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