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22
Mar.
2023

Academy midPoint

The Best Way to Get Your Hands On midPoint? Training from InCommon Academy

By Apryl Motley, CAE – Incommon Communications Lead

If you’re trying to determine how best to implement midPoint at your institution, look no further than the upcoming training available from InCommon Academy, April 25 – 28, 2023.  The InCommon Academy’s midPoint Basics Workshop offers a robust hands-on environment. In fact, recent attendees tell us it’s the…

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20
Mar.
2023

COmanage Academy

It’s Time You Met Your Match

By Apryl Motley, CAE, InCommon Communications Lead

New COmanage Match Workshop from InCommon Academy In the spirit of “by community for community,” InCommon Academy is pleased to host its inaugural, virtual COmanage Match Workshop on March 30 with support from the University of California, San Diego. UCSD invested its resources to help develop the training…

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21
Feb.
2023

Grouper Software

Major Improvements to the Grouper Provisioning Framework

By Chris Hyzer, University of Pennsylvania

It was great seeing many of you at the Internet2 Technology Exchange (TechEX) in Denver in December 2022. We love talking with our community about identity management, Grouper, and everything else too. Shout out to the team at the University of Michigan who presented a terrific TechEX session on…

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18
Jan.
2023

Software Shibboleth

Shibboleth Success Story: We Love a Deployment!

By Apryl Motley, InCommon Communications Lead

Tim Hansen When members of the InCommon community achieve their goals, we achieve ours. We love hearing how our training and other resources help research and education institutions overcome obstacles and turn them into opportunities. Recently, we heard from a past attendee of InCommon Academy’s Shibboleth training. He wrote…

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06
Jan.
2023

Academy Software

New Year. New Resolve. Get Your IAM in Better Shape.

By Jean Chorazyczewski, InCommon Academy Director

Jean Chorazyczewski, InCommon Academy Director According to a recent Statista Global Consumer Survey, the most common New Year’s resolutions for 2023 among adults (18 – 89 years old) are to exercise more (52%), eat healthier (50%), and lose weight (40%). In other words – living healthier by getting in better…

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08
Nov.
2022

Grouper Software

Getting Off Script with Grouper

By Jason Rappaport, DevOps Engineer, Princeton University

Note: Grouper is one of the software solutions that makes up InCommon’s Trusted Access Platform, the research and education solution for identity and access management (IAM). The InCommon Team appreciates community members’ willingness to share their deployment stories to benefit others as…

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02
Nov.
2022

midPoint Academy

InCommon Academy Instructor Insights: Making the Most of midPoint

By Apryl Motley, CAE, Communications Lead, InCommon

With our next virtual midPoint Basics workshop coming up November 7–10, we asked instructor Ivan Noris,  an expert identity engineer at InCommon Catalyst Evolveum, to share his insights on its benefits. (Register for training with Ivan now.) What do you hope attendees will learn…

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21
Sep.
2022

Shibboleth Academy

InCommon Academy Instructor Insights: Go with Shibboleth for Synergy and Streamlining

By Apryl Motley, CAE, Communications Lead, InCommon

With our next virtual Shibboleth workshop coming up October 3–7, we asked co-Instructors Paul Caskey,  an IAM architect at Internet2, and Paul Riddle, an identity architect at the University of Maryland Baltimore County (UMBC), to share their insights on its benefits. How does understanding more about Shibboleth and implementing…

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17
Oct.
2022

COmanage Academy

Configuring COmanage: 4 Concepts You Should Know

By Laura Paglione, Partner at Spherical Cow Group

Laura Paglione Your organization can leverage COmanage software as a central person registry, a guest management system, and/or a collaboration hub for scholarly collaborations. However, before you configure anything, there are four concepts you should bear in mind: People COmanage is primarily, but not exclusively, a registry for people. People…

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22
Aug.
2022

Academy COmanage Grouper midPoint Shibboleth

InCommon Academy Offers the Best Options Available for IAM Training This Fall

By Apryl Motley, InCommon Communications Lead

New season. New skills to learn and master. InCommon Academy is your one-stop connection to the best options for your team’s identity and access management (IAM) training this fall. Consistently rated 4.5 out of 5 stars, InCommon Academy workshops aren’t your run-of-the-mill training classes. …

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