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Univention UCS offers a range of use cases that have been praised by users and customers. Many customers utilize Univention as a virtualization host with the UVMM to efficiently manage their virtual machines. It also serves as an identity management system, supporting LDAP and Samba, making it a valuable replacement or addition to Active Directory. The software's web-UI allows easy management of identities, such as users and groups, for other applications like Kopano. Univention is also highly regarded for its centralized printer management capabilities.

Customers appreciate the flexibility of having a backup system on every location, providing a fallback option and minimizing latencies. The continuous improvements in each new version of Univention have impressed users, making it a compelling choice for setting up network infrastructures with Windows, MAC, or Linux clients and servers. Additionally, Univention simplifies the integration of on-premise resources with cloud resources like Office365 or Google Docs.

Univention UCS is frequently chosen to replace Microsoft SBS2011 Server and offers seamless migration of AD domains through its AD-Takeover APP. IT service providers in the SMB space find Univention UCS to be a suitable replacement for Microsoft SBS, reducing hardware resource overhead. Users rely on Univention for core file serving and Windows domain user authentication without the need for configuration changes when scaling from small to large user bases.

With its reliability as a virtual machine, Univention UCS has gained trust among its users. Its administration is easily accessible through a browser control panel, providing simplicity and convenience. Successful implementations by IT infrastructure solutions companies in India and biotechnology organizations involved in COVID vaccine development have demonstrated Univention's effectiveness as an Identity Access Management solution and primary authentication system integration.

Overall, users are satisfied with Univention's performance and value the ongoing relationship with the company. Utilizing Univention UCS proves beneficial across various industries and use cases due to its robust features and ease of use.

Flexible and Robust: Several users have praised Univention Corporate Server for its flexibility and robustness as an enterprise software. They have found it to be a reliable solution that can adapt to their changing needs over time.

Easy Management: Many reviewers have appreciated the web-based Management-UI of Univention UCS, finding it well-designed and continuously improved with each version. They have found it easy to manage all features, even in multi-server environments, thanks to the central management capabilities.

Complete Solution: A significant number of users have highlighted that Univention UCS is a complete solution for SMBs, offering various services such as directory service, DNS, DHCP, mailserver, and fileserver. This comprehensive package has made it convenient for businesses to handle multiple IT infrastructure requirements within one platform.

Limited App Store Offerings: Some users have expressed disappointment with the limited offerings in the App Store of the software. They feel that there is a lack of variety and options available, which can hinder their ability to find suitable applications for their needs.

Difficulties in Navigating Editable and Customized Features: Several reviewers have mentioned that navigating through editable and customized features can be challenging and confusing. Users have reported difficulties in finding specific settings or options within these features, leading to frustration and time-consuming troubleshooting.

Complexity and Lack of Documentation for UCS Technology: Users have pointed out that managing the technology provided by UCS can be complex, particularly when it comes to the Configuration Database. They also stated that there is a lack of proper documentation available for this aspect. This lack of comprehensive documentation makes it difficult for users to understand and effectively utilize the Configuration Database, resulting in potential issues or errors during configuration processes.

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Identity Management (IdM) is essentially about creating, maintaining, and retiring individual enterprise accounts for IT security. Identity and Access Management (IAM) systems encompass this but also provide a framework that goes beyond digital identities to providing access to users in various roles in a relatively automated fashion for cost and efficiency, while yet presenting minimal risk to sensitive data or equipment, simultaneously creating an audit trail for lawful compliance. Depending on the implementation needed by the enterprise (i.e. who is logging in and to what largely determines this) these concerns can be somewhat, highly, or totally overlapping areas.

Making comparisons across suites of software and their vendors can be difficult as this apparently singular body of needs is  serviced by vendors in this area in a highly modular fashion who bridge gaps with strategic or technical partnerships and integrations.  But here "Identity Management" Software is defined as software which handles all or some of the tasks related to all of the above, which may be divided into:

-- Identity governance or provisioning (basically role management with workflow controls).

-- Access (authorization or restriction of access to certain information to certain persons across locations and systems).

 ...and the various methods of enabling rapid yet secure access like:

-- Single sign-on (SSO, describes the ability to login to the system once and only once, gaining access to all systems without need for logging in again via help from a server).

-- Multi-factor authentication (using multiple, independent components to gain access, a simple step to increase security, though at a cost of efficiency for each additional step).

-- Password management and self-help for password users.

-- Identity federation, related to SSO, access spanning system boundaries (e.g. cloud access).

-- Directory / User Repository Management for tracking of users with access, and

-- Security Analytics for auditing and compliance...

...and more. IAM software is most usually sold in a modular, configurable pieces-sold-separately fashion, where each module handles some but not all of these needs. Some of the strongest vendors in this area offer high specialization and strategic partnerships with other specializers while other established vendors, via both acquisitions and development, manage to cobble together comprehensive portfolios and subsume all the various needs under one grand suite of comprehensive IAM capabilities. Enterprises have gone both ways.


A later arriving area of identity management software that greatly up-prioritizes speed and ease of access over security is called by the vendors who specialize in it Customer Identity Management, which provides simple customer registration most often via Social Sign-On capability. This allows a user to instantaneously set up an account with a service provider merely by logging in via their preferred social network account; voila, the customer has (safe, limited) access, and the enterprise gains useful information about the potential customer in less than five seconds. While traditional Identity Management Systems offer the capability to do this, smaller vendors who specialize in customer access, with its high-efficiency / low-security demands, sometimes bundle the feature with other common marketing capabilities to leverage the instantly acquired customer data (e.g. email marketing, segmentation, landing pages, etc.), thus creating a (growing) niche of customer-facing identity management systems in the process.

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Univention Corporate Server is an Open Source enterprise server and IT management software and platform for enterprise applications. This gives businesses options when choosing applications, without the hassle of complicated integration.

The fully-featured Core Edition is available for free for private and commercial use.

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Univention Corporate Server is an Open Source enterprise server and IT management software and platform for enterprise applications. This gives your business options when choosing applications, without the hassle of complicated integration.

The fully-featured Core Edition is available for free for private and commercial use.

Whether you’re working with on premises servers, in the cloud or with hybrid solutions, UCS can easily scale from a company with a few users to a massive operation involving millions of users, while you stay in full control. 

It offers all functions for server and identy management - like the administration of domains, users, groups, or clients - and works seamlessly with existing infrastructures like Microsoft Active Directory or LDAP.

But what makes UCS truly powerful is the freedom it gives its users to work with Univention Apps — a wide variety of turnkey 3rd party enterprise applications  all easily installed and centrally managed through Univention App Center. 

And our user friendly web interface is a clean
 organized way to centrally manage your entire IT infrastructure.

Find further information on UCS at:
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Identity management software manages information about the identity of software users and controls access to corporate resources

Authorization or restriction of access to information depending on role

The ability to login to the system once, gaining access to all systems without the need for logging in again

Using multiple, independent components to gain access

Password Management

Self-help capabilities the help users recover forgotten passwords, etc.

Capabilities for creating user accounts  based on roles, group memberships and business processes

ID Management Workflow Automation

Automated sequence of tasks to simplify processes

ID Risk Management

Identification, evaluation, and prioritization of risks with procedures to minimize, impacts of unplanned consequences

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We are an End to End IT Infrastructure Solutions company from India and we have been using Univention Corporate Server internally and also implemented to at least 6 more companies in the last 6 years (We are the partners of Univention for the last 6 years). 

We have implemented both Free &amp; Subscription based offerings of Univention. Some of the big implementations include for a very big Indian MNC, who is BSE Listed IT Distributor for 1650+ users spread across 11 Cities in India. 
For this Organization, we have implemented UCS as Identity Access Management solution (if we can say - Linux based Active Directory Server) and also integrated SSO of Univention with their SAP, LinkedIn, Mail Server and VPN with 2FA. 
For another customer, we have implemented as primary Domain Controller (this customer has not used Linux before) and their Windows Admin who is not comfortable with Linux, is also managing it as an Active Directory Server using RSAT without a single support call to us for the past 3 years.
The first installation that we have done was in the year 2015 and this Organization is using UCS as an Active Directory Server.
For another customer, we have implemented UCS is a giant in Biotechnology and involved in COVID Vaccine. For this customer, we have implemented UCS to integrate 4 different LDAPs to UCS and UCS as their Primary Authentication.
We are happy with Univention and hope to continue our relationship with them.

Complete replacement for MS Active Directory Server.
Univention App Center - awesome concept with which Apps can be installed for the Domain.
App Center can be compared to Google Play Store or Apple Play Store - Organizations can gain tremendous advantages.
Plethora of Apps which are both free and paid and excellent apps for the Organizations.

As Univention is from Germany, lot of informative articles are in German but English articles are also good but less in number.

As a partner, we have gained lot of respect from our customers as UCS is rock solid.
UCS is truly Open Source.
UCS has surpassed our expectations.

Univention Corporate Server (UCS)

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