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For those seeking suggested guidelines on your Grouper Deployment, check out the TIER Grouper Deployment Guide.


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Check out this link for the blogs on Grouper from the TIER Campus Success Program participants. See the blogs here

Adopter Sketches by Institution

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    California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo  (2011)- Browse Cal Poly's Grouper implementation.

    Campus Crusade for Christ International  (2012) - Includes info on the provisioning consumer and on deploying Grouper to multiple environments.

    Carnegie Mellon University (Updated Nov. 2017) -  Integrating Grouper with Google Apps and using the Grouper Active-MQ Provisioner (GAP) framework.

    Cardiff University (2011) - Grouper deployment at Cardiff University includes an ESB Interface. (note: last updated in 2011)  

        Colorado State University -  (Added February 2018) -   Provisioning from Grouper to LDAP.

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    GIP RECIA - A public interest group in France uses Grouper with uPortal.

    Illinois State University    (New October 2021) -  Using Grouper for IAM needs

    Indiana University    (New May  2017) -  Managing a subset of groups in Active Directory. .

    Harvard University    (New Jan  2020) - making it easier to manage permissions to applications and websites

    Kenyon College    (New June  2016)- Google Groups use case .

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    Newcastle University (Updated 2016) -   A video on how groups are structured, information on access control groups using Talend, managing room booking, wireless access and more.

    North Dakota State University -  (New September 2020)- AD Groups, LISTSERV, and integration with midPoint

    Northern Arizona University - See how Northern Arizona University integrated Grouper and uPortal

    Oregon State University (UpdatedJune 2015 2017)- - using Grouper for video access, Canvas, and Google Apps

    Penn State University - (Updated Feb. 2015) Using Grouper with the Central Person Registry.

    Princeton University - (2022) Using Grouper with Azure.

    Rice University - (June 2019) Using Grouper and Shibboleth as part of the Identity First project.

    Simon Fraser University (2012) - Using the Grouper Loader, the Changelog and an ESB connector

    SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory at Stanford University (Updated 2023, started 2020) - Using Grouper to automate affiliation status events and more

    SURFnet OpenConext (2015) - See how Grouper is used within the OpenConext collaboration platform

    University of Arizona Grouper Pages  (Updated 20142020) - a self-service utility allows FERPA-trained faculty and staff members to manage ad-hoc groups

       University of Auckland, NZ  (Added 2016)  - Migrating all group management functionality to Grouper

       University of Bath, UK  (Added 2018)  - Using Grouper to manage 10,000 groups and 900,000 memberships

      University of California, Berkeley   (Updated March 2018) - - Grouper in production with CalMessages email broadcastProvisioning groups to AD LDAP, OpenDJ LDAP and Google groups

        University of California Los Angeles  (Updated Aug. 2016)  - Overview of Grouper use cases and deployment at UCLA   

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    University of Hawaii (Updated October 2018) -  See See how Grouper is used to augment ListServes LISTSERV lists and enhance daily termination reports.

      University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign  -  (Added Feb 2018Updated June 2019)  Deploying Grouper in Amazon Web Services

    University of Maryland Baltimore County  -  (Added April 2017Updated May 2018) groups provisioned to LDAP for access management using Grouper Docker containers

    University of Maryland College Park  -   (Updated Nov. 2018) - Running Grouper in production integrated with various systems.

    University of Memphis - (Brief note added Nov. 2014) Running Grouper API in production.

      University of Michigan  -  (Added Feb 2018Updated February 2023)  Using containerized Grouper  

    University of Minnesota - (2013) Using Grouper to manage access to BPEL workflows, VPN groups and more.

    University of Montana  - (2019)  Using Grouper containers

       University of Montreal  - (2013)  Using Grouper for automatic and delegated group and membership management

    University of Nebraska   (Updated Feb 2018July 2020) Using Grouper to manage student, employee and residence hall data.

    University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill   (Added January 2017Updated May 2019) - custom sync, multiple subject types, building with Maven, deploying to Glassfish

    University of North Carolina-Greensboro   (Added August 2018) -  Grouper with TIER containers

       University of Pennsylvania   (Updated July 20142023)-- Read about Penn's advanced Grouper usage, including handling external users and addressing other permissions use cases. 

    University of Toronto    (Added November 2016)- - Using Grouper for distributed/delegated role-based access control

      University of Tulsa (2013)  - Using Grouper with Shibboleth and Box.com. 

      University of Utah  - (Updated June 2014) A proof-of-concept project within the University of Utah IT department

    University of Virginia (2023) . 

    University of Waterloo (Added June 2020) -  Using affiliation populations to build access definitions

    University of Washington (Updated July 2018)- - Read about the U-Washington approach to Groups and provisioning and about the upgrade to Grouper 2.3

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    Uppsala University in Sweden (Updated Nov. 2014) - View UI screens for adding groups and members.

      Université de Lille1 (2012) - Adapting and Frenchify LiteUI / Adaptation et Françisation de LiteUI

    University of Virginia (2023)  -  .     

    Virginia Tech (2023) - Building out an ABAC implementation for our enterprise

    Yale  - (Added February 2018) - Banner integration, Canvas integration and more

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  • Uses similar technologies
    • e.g. Java 
  • Has similar requirements
    • e.g. Java version, database agnostic, etc
  • Follow Coding Standards
  • Does not add many dependencies (especially specific dependencies)
  • Does not add a lot of extra jars
  • Has been discussed on the grouper-core list (or dev)
  • Uses Grouper framework code
    • e.g. config overlays
  • Has compatible open source license
  • Does not require expensive licenses
  • Has unit tests
  • Has a quick start (if applicable)
  • The contributor can provide at least minimal ongoing support
  • Solves generic problems
  • Code is reviewed by Grouper team

See Grouper Developers Coding Standards.

Code Contributions

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When you create a new Grouper documentation page on the Confluence wiki, please use these procedures
please do this to ensure that the new page has the correct horizontal menu/banner across the top of the page:

  • Click the three dots to the right of "Create" in horizontal menu at top of Confluence page

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  • Choose the  " Grouper_std" template and then click the Create button at bottom right of the popup.

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