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Title: InCommon Update: February 2012

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Featured Events

February 29, 2012 (2 pm ET)
Assurance Program Webinar - This webinar signals the opening of the InCommon Assurance Program. We'll provide an overview of the first profile - Silver - and discuss the certification process. Adobe Connect:
internet2.adobeconnect.com/assurance

March 14, 2012 (3 pm ET)
IAM Online - Securing Campus Active Directories for InCommon Silver: A Collaborative Effort (Nick Roy, Mark Rank, Ann West) - Hear from a community group developing a cookbook for configuring Microsoft’s Active Directory Domain Services for compliance with the technical requirements of InCommon Silver. Adobe Connect: internet2.adobeconnect.com/iam-online/

Upcoming Shibboleth Workshop Series (installation workshops)
April 12-13, 2012 - Columbia, Mo.
July 16-17, 2012 - Baltimore, Md.

Registration will open soon for the April sessions at the MOREnet offices in Columbia, Missouri.

Need Planning, Implementation, Consulting Help?

Need help with your federated IdM planning or implementation? Or some consulting for Shibboleth? The InCommon Affiliate Program could help — connecting higher education institutions and their federating partners with providers of federation services.

February 2012

In This Issue

• Federated Error Handling to Improve User Experience
• First Service Providers Apply for R&S Category
• Two Shibboleth Workshops Planned
• New Certificate Service Subscribers
• New Participants in January

Federated Error Handling to Improve User Experience

This is pretty cool — a new centralized Federated Error Handling Service for use by Service Providers (SPs) to prevent users from hitting a dead-end without any notice as to why. The service takes advantage of MDUI elements in metadata to customize an SP-branded page displaying the SP’s logo and text specific to the SP and IdP in question.

First Service Providers Apply for R&S Category

Almost as soon as we announced the new Research & Scholarship (R&S) category, four service providers submitted applications. The category involves identity providers (IdPs) releasing a minimal set of attributes to all service providers (SPs) in the category, simplifying and streamlining user access at the SP while reducing administrative overhead at the IdP.

Two Shibboleth Workshops Planned

We've announced the dates for two of the four Shibboleth Workshop Series planned for 2012. The workshops provide technical installation and configuration experience with Shibboleth version 2.x using a self-paced set of instructions. Registration will open soon for the workshop in Columbia, Missouri, April 12-13. There is also a workshop planned at UMBC in Baltimore, Maryland, July 16-17.

New Certificate Service Subscribers

Welcome to new InCommon Certificate Service subscribers: East Stroudsburg University of Pennsylvania and the University of North Texas System. There are 152 subscribers to the certificate service.

New Participants in January

We welcome these new participants to the InCommon community. As of the end of January, InCommon has 370 participants.

Higher Education

• Arkansas State University (www.astate.edu)
• Bloomsburg University of Pennsylvania (www.bloomu.edu)
• Capella University (www.capella.edu)
• Creighton University (www.creighton.edu)
• East Stroudsburg University of Pennsylvania (www.esu.edu)
• Furman University (www.furman.edu)
• Goucher College (www.goucher.edu)
• Owens Community College (www.owens.edu)
• Syracuse University (www.syr.edu)
• University of Maine System (www.maine.edu)
• University of Maryland University College (www.umuc.edu)
• University of Nebraska at Omaha (www.unomaha.edu)
• University of North Texas System (www.untsystem.edu)
• Yavapai College (www.yc.edu)

Research Organizations

• Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution (www.whoi.edu)

Sponsored Partners

• Ohio Technology Consortium (OH-TECH) (www.oh-tech.org)
• Terra Dotta (www.terradotta.com)

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