No Open Office Hours This Month

We will be taking a break from office hours in early January but will resume on Friday, February 3, at 12:00 PM (America/New York). Please use the link below to add the event to your calendar:

FEBRUARY: IN YOUR TIMEZONE & link for your calendar

COmanage 2022 Year in Review

More happened during 2022 than we can fit into a newsletter, but here we share some highlights.

New Version Releases

You can find all of the details of the releases on the COmanage Roadmap page.

• Registry v4.0.2 (Feb)
  Bug fixes and corrections on Registry v4.0.0 were released in Oct 2021.
  
  
• Match v1.0.0 (Jul)
  The initial release of COmanage Match.
  
  
• Registry v4.1.0 RC1 (Dec)
  A precursor to the full release of v4.1.0, we shared the first Release Candidate of the update in December. This version will have many new features, including Person Vetting, Enrollment Flow Integration with ID Match, and an ApiSource update to accept multiple roles. You can see a full list of features in the presentation given at Open Office Hours LIVE! last month.

Planning & Execution

We laid a lot of groundwork during 2022 that we expect to leverage next year and beyond.

• Updates to COmanage Project Containers
  Led by the Project Container lead, Scott Koranda, we have our first vision, roadmap, and formal planning for how COmanage will manage and evolve containerized packaging. In addition to the planning, this year we migrated container repositories for both Registry and Match to be resident with the code base for each. Execution of this plan will be ongoing throughout 2023. See Container Planning Roadmap for all the details.
   
• Registry 5.0.0 (PE)
  Registry v5+ is a significant update to the code because of a CAKE Framework Migration. We have taken the opportunity to consider how Registry is used today and update it so that the codebase is better positioned for what we plan in the future. Our development cadence is tied to several small “milestone releases.” At the moment, we are on milestone release 7. The Minimal Viable Product release is expected between milestone releases 12 and 13. Both versions 4 and 5 will be supported until version 5 reaches feature equivalency with 4. You can find details about v5 plans in the presentation from Open Office Hours LIVE! last month.

Refreshed Documentation

We started this newsletter both to help communicate new news about COmanage tools, as well as to help highlight information that may have been tucked away in our documentation for some time. We have been building several resources to help you find your way around the documentation, particularly for the new or occasional user.

• Technical Manuals - detailed documentation on the features and 
  • Registry Technical Manual v4.x and below
  • Match Technical Manual
    
    
• User Guides - the technical manuals with a bit of context thrown in.
  • Registry User Guide
  • Match User Guide
    
    
• Community Pages - explore ways to engage with the rest of the community and us. The COmanage Community
  
  
• Media resources (new this month). We have updated the format for our media pages, making them easier to use. See the media page for the details about
  • Presentations,
  • Videos, and
  • Other Resources

Training, Presentations, & Events

We value the many times we had opportunities to have voice-to-voice conversations with current and prospective users of COmanage tools. We loved hearing your use cases, questions, suggestions, and stories in many settings:

AND, lots and lots of attendees from Internet2’s Technology Exchange (Dec)

… and a quick look to the future…

At the last Open Office Hours, the COmanage Project UI/UX lead, Arlen Johnson, provided a preview of a few features of the new Registry interface that is expected with COmanage Registry v5.x.x. We invite you to watch the 3 min video and start getting excited about what the project has in store for 2023.

That’s it for this month’s newsletter. Keep an eye out for our next one scheduled for late January. We look forward to seeing you in the new year.

Open Office Hours LIVE!! - December 7 (DIFFERENT TIME)

This month we’re taking advantage to our attendance at Technology Exchange in Denver to do a LIVE! version of our monthly Open Office Hours. We will still host our online version, so please join us even if you will not be in Denver this week.

Do you have a question about deploying or configuring Registry or Match? Want to get some input on a solution architecture design? Want to hear how your colleagues in the community are solving problems similar to yours? Each month you can bring your topics for discussion to the call. No need to register or spin up a presentation (but feel free if it suits you!); just show up! A short conversation starter kicks off each session to help get the discussion started.

Wednesday, December 7 at 12:30 PM (America/Denver) (no registration necessary)

LIVE: Director’s Row I, Sheraton Denver Downtown Hotel

ZOOM: https://us06web.zoom.us/j/84743471575?pwd=d29QNFM1KzEwUFZvRFg0enJ1dlNmQT09

IN YOUR TIMEZONE & link for your calendar

Topic Aperitif: COmanage Registry 5.0.0. (PE)

COmanage Registry is undergoing a significant update with version 5.0.0. With a substantial upgrade to the underlying development framework, CakePHP, we are taking the opportunity to review current Registry uses and adjust the code and features to better align with how the system is being used today. For this month’s “topic aperitif” we will discuss the expected changes, share some exciting functionality and interface updates, and talk about timing. We look forward to your questions, comments, and suggestions, both about this update and any other COmanage topics.

COmanage Registry v5 - Looking good…

We are so excited about the planned UI/UX updates to COmanage Registry. Influenced from feedback from those participating in Registry training, we have been re-thinking the application information to ensure that functionality are grouped in intuitive ways. We have been seeking ways to present information so important items are noticed quickly and easily, and the ability to update and interact with this information is straight-forward. 

This one picture of the Registry person canvas inspires many more than a thousand words from us. Tune into Open Office Hours to see a peak of the updates planned for the Person Canvas and the rest of Registry.

COmanage News

This newsletter section is designed to provide additional transparency on the day-to-day workings of COmanage. Have ideas about other information that we should be including? Let us know on the #incommon-comanage slack channel or by emailing Laura!

COmanage AT TECHNOLOGY EXCHANGE IN DECEMBER!

We are so excited that several sessions will focus COmanage tools at Internet2’s Technology EXchange this December 5-9 in Denver, CO, USA:

Making it Sticky: Offering Shared Services via InCommon Glue (Newly Added!)

Have services you want to offer schools in your state or region, but it’s tough to manage the individual access details? Want to help your member schools access those shared services and the world of academic collaboration?

The community has news for you! Join us to hear OARnet’s experience this year and learn how the InCommon community has been working on several initiatives to help a diversity of organizations to participate. There are also education programs and partner-provided tools to help bridge the gap. Please join us to explore resources available to support your needs.

Bridging the Divide: Dynamic MFA Using PrivacyIDEA, SATOSA, and COmanage

A growing number of Service Providers (SPs) require their users to sign in using Multi-factor Authentication (MFA) to ensure that SP-provided resources are securely accessed. However, federated Identity Providers (IdPs) are still evolving in their support for MFA. A flexible bridge solution is needed.

To address this challenge, the NIAID Discovery and Collaboration Platform (NDCP) developed a Dynamic MFA solution that uses campus MFA assertions when available and NDCP MFA when not. This solution combines three powerful tools: 1) PrivacyIDEA for token management and runtime authentication, 2) COmanage for NDCP MFA registration when IdPs don't provide MFA, and 3) SATOSA for SAML assertion and flow management. MFA-secured authentication from IdPs can be used directly even if the IdP does not signal it, and can automatically adjust when an IdP starts signaling MFA.

Join us to learn why Dynamic MFA is essential for Virtual Organizations looking to leverage federated MFA, and how to make it work. Presenters will cover implementation and code release, the MFA deployment process, and challenges/lessons learned along the way.

ACAMP: BYOCT

And, of course, we hope to collaborate with you as you Bring Your Own COmanage Topic (BYOCT) to Advanced CAMP - the unconference component of CAMP week at Technology EXchange.

That’s it for this month’s newsletter. Keep an eye out for our next one scheduled for late December. We hope to welcome you during our Open Office Hours on December 7th!

Open Office Hours - October 27 (DIFFERENT TIME)

Do you have a question about deploying or configuring Registry or Match? Want to get some input on a solution architecture design? Want to hear how your colleagues in the community are solving problems similar to yours? Each month you can bring your topics for discussion to the call. No need to register or spin up a presentation (but feel free if it suits you!); just show up! A short conversation starter kicks off each session to help get the discussion started.

Thursday, October 27 at 3:00 PM (America/New York) (no registration necessary)

https://internet2.zoom.us/j/81517628065?pwd=YllHUEJnSTF5U0FNbDQvSEQ4c0tmdz09 

IN YOUR TIMEZONE & link for your calendar

Topic Aperitif: Pick a Topic

When we teach the COmanage Registry workshop, the last session has participants voting on the topics that they would like to hear more about or that were not covered during training. This month we invite the broader community to join in this tradition, both to hear the topics and to contribute your insights and experiences to the conversation. The topics that are up for consideration are:

• Account Linking
• Duplicate Management
• Extending the COmanage Data Model
• Validating Identifiers
• Creating Message Templates
• More about Plugins
• Registry Jobs
• Status Management
• CO Services
• Intro to the COmanage API
• Overview of COmanage Match
  

COmanage Registry - Managing Offboarding

Eventually, people that you have registered in your COmanage Registry Collaboration/ Organization will no longer have a connection to part or all of your organization or collaboration. Offboarding is a process for updating these relationships as they evolve. COmanage Registry supports offboarding by allowing one to configure a set of Expiration Policies that manage a person's status and relationship to the representation of your Collaboration/Organization within Registry.

An increasing number of institutions have been exploring how they may leverage tools like Registry to support their Offboarding needs. 

Read more about Offboarding in Registry on our new wiki page, Offboarding and Expiration Policies.

COmanage News

This newsletter section is designed to provide additional transparency on the day-to-day workings of COmanage. Have ideas about other information that we should be including? Let us know on the #incommon-comanage slack channel or by emailing Laura!

UPCOMING OPEN OFFICE HOURS

The last Open Office Hours for 2022 (and their Topic Aperitifs) are on a different schedule:

• Wed, 7 DEC 12:30 MT: Open Office Hours LIVE! at Technology Exchange. TOPIC: COmanage Registry 5.0.0 (PE) - an early preview!

Click the link above to see the meetings in your time zone and add them to your calendar.

COmanage AT TECHNOLOGY EXCHANGE IN DECEMBER!

We are so excited that several sessions will focus COmanage tools at Internet2’s Technology EXchange this December 5-9 in Denver, CO, USA:

Open Office Hours LIVE! (Newly Added!)

December’s Topic Aperitif: COmanage Registry 5.0.0 (PE)

COmanage Registry is undergoing a significant update with version 5.0.0. With a substantial upgrade to the underlying development framework, CakePHP, we are taking the opportunity to review current Registry uses and adjust the code and features to better align with how the system is being used today. For this month’s “topic aperitif” we will discuss the expected changes, share some exciting functionality and interface updates, and talk about timing. We look forward to your questions, comments, and suggestions, both about this update and any other COmanage topics. This session will be offered in person during a TechEx lunch session as well as our traditional online offering.

Making it Sticky: Offering Shared Services via InCommon Glue (Newly Added!)

Have services you want to offer schools in your state or region, but it’s tough to manage the individual access details? Want to help your member schools access those shared services and the world of academic collaboration?

The community has news for you! Join us to hear OARnet’s experience this year and learn how the InCommon community has been working on several initiatives to help a diversity of organizations to participate. There are also education programs and partner-provided tools to help bridge the gap. Please join us to explore resources available to support your needs.

Hands-on Introduction to COmanage Match

In this tutorial, you will learn how to set up matching rules, how to use dictionaries to set up more sophisticated matches, and techniques for testing and refining your match rules. Each participant will need a device with web browser capability. Tutorial limit: 20 participants.

Bridging the Divide: Dynamic MFA Using PrivacyIDEA, SATOSA, and COmanage

A growing number of Service Providers (SPs) require their users to sign in using Multi-factor Authentication (MFA) to ensure that SP-provided resources are securely accessed. However, federated Identity Providers (IdPs) are still evolving in their support for MFA. A flexible bridge solution is needed.

To address this challenge, the NIAID Discovery and Collaboration Platform (NDCP) developed a Dynamic MFA solution that uses campus MFA assertions when available and NDCP MFA when not. This solution combines three powerful tools: 1) PrivacyIDEA for token management and runtime authentication, 2) COmanage for NDCP MFA registration when IdPs don't provide MFA, and 3) SATOSA for SAML assertion and flow management. MFA-secured authentication from IdPs can be used directly even if the IdP does not signal it, and can automatically adjust when an IdP starts signaling MFA.

Join us to learn why Dynamic MFA is essential for Virtual Organizations looking to leverage federated MFA, and how to make it work. Presenters will cover implementation and code release, the MFA deployment process, and challenges/lessons learned along the way.

ACAMP: BYOCT

And, of course, we hope to collaborate with you as you Bring Your Own COmanage Topic (BYOCT) to Advanced CAMP - the unconference component of CAMP week at Technology EXchange.

That’s it for this month’s newsletter; keep an eye out for our next one scheduled for late November. We hope to welcome you during our Open Office Hours on October 27th!

Open Office Hours - October 7

Do you have a question about deploying or configuring Registry or Match? Want to get some input on a solution architecture design? Want to hear how your colleagues in the community are solving problems similar to yours? Each month you can bring your topics for discussion to the call. No need to register or spin up a presentation (but feel free if it suits you!); just show up! A short conversation starter kicks off each session to help get the discussion started.

Friday, October 7 at 12:00 PM (America/New York) (no registration necessary)

https://us06web.zoom.us/j/84743471575?pwd=d29QNFM1KzEwUFZvRFg0enJ1dlNmQT09 

IN YOUR TIMEZONE & link for your calendar

October's Topic Aperitif: COmanage Packaging

This month we will spend some time exploring the container packaging for the COmanage Project tools. Scott Koranda will review the resources available, and the best ways to use them. We will follow this 15 min chat with topics of your choosing. Bring your questions, comments, and suggestions about any topic to office hours with the COmanage project team.

COmanage Registry Person Vetting

Soon-to-be-released Registry v4.1.0 introduces the concept of Vetting, where a CO Person can be reviewed via one or more vetting processes (called Vetting Steps). Vetting is useful for purposes such as background checks or compliance, for example, checking a person’s home/business country of residence against a dictionary list of State Sponsors of Terrorism. Vetting Steps can be run on demand, or as part of an Enrollment Flow.

Vetting Steps can be configured for automatic or manual processing, and are implemented via Vetting Plugins. Vetting Steps are configured at the CO level, meaning in the current implementation the same Vetting Steps are applied to all members of the CO, regardless of COU memberships or other considerations. The data used for Vetting is specific to each Plugin.

Read more about Person Vetting in the COmanage Wiki.

COmanage News

This newsletter section is designed to provide additional transparency on the day-to-day workings of COmanage. Have ideas about other information that we should be including? Let us know on the #incommon-comanage slack channel or by emailing Laura!

UPCOMING OPEN OFFICE HOURS

The last Open Office Hours for 2022 (and their Topic Aperitifs) are on a different schedule:

• Thu, 27 OCT 3:00 ET: TOPIC: Pick a topic, with the latest training cohort
• Wed, 7 DEC 12:30 MT: Open Office Hours LIVE! at Technology Exchange. TOPIC: COmanage Registry 5.0.0 (PE) - an early preview!

Click the links above to see the meetings in your time zone and add them to your calendar.

COmanage REGISTRY TRAINING

Early bird rates end SEP 30! A COmanage Registry training workshop will be held on October 25-27. Learn the basics of administering Registry including connections to Source data, enrolling your population, passing information from Registry to your other systems, and lifecycle management. Register now. (The next Registry training workshop will be offered in Spring 2023)

COmanage AT TECHNOLOGY EXCHANGE IN DECEMBER!

We are so excited that several sessions will focus COmanage tools at Internet2’s Technology EXchange this December 5-9 in Denver, CO, USA:

Open Office Hours LIVE! (Newly Added!)

December’s Topic Aperitif: COmanage Registry 5.0.0 (PE)

COmanage Registry is undergoing a significant update with version 5.0.0. With a substantial upgrade to the underlying development framework, CakePHP, we are taking the opportunity to review current Registry uses and adjust the code and features to better align with how the system is being used today. For this month’s “topic aperitif” we will discuss the expected changes, share some exciting functionality and interface updates, and talk about timing. We look forward to your questions, comments, and suggestions, both about this update and any other COmanage topics. This session will be offered in person during a TechEx lunch session as well as our traditional online offering.

Making it Sticky: Offering Shared Services via InCommon Glue (Newly Added!)

Have services you want to offer schools in your state or region, but it’s tough to manage the individual access details? Want to help your member schools access those shared services and the world of academic collaboration?

The community has news for you! Join us to hear OARnet’s experience this year and learn how the InCommon community has been working on several initiatives to help a diversity of organizations to participate. There are also education programs and partner-provided tools to help bridge the gap. Please join us to explore resources available to support your needs.

Hands-on Introduction to COmanage Match

In this tutorial, you will learn how to set up matching rules, how to use dictionaries to set up more sophisticated matches, and techniques for testing and refining your match rules. Each participant will need a device with web browser capability. Tutorial limit: 20 participants.

Bridging the Divide: Dynamic MFA Using PrivacyIDEA, SATOSA, and COmanage

A growing number of Service Providers (SPs) require their users to sign in using Multi-factor Authentication (MFA) to ensure that SP-provided resources are securely accessed. However, federated Identity Providers (IdPs) are still evolving in their support for MFA. A flexible bridge solution is needed.

To address this challenge, the NIAID Discovery and Collaboration Platform (NDCP) developed a Dynamic MFA solution that uses campus MFA assertions when available and NDCP MFA when not. This solution combines three powerful tools: 1) PrivacyIDEA for token management and runtime authentication, 2) COmanage for NDCP MFA registration when IdPs don't provide MFA, and 3) SATOSA for SAML assertion and flow management. MFA-secured authentication from IdPs can be used directly even if the IdP does not signal it, and can automatically adjust when an IdP starts signaling MFA.

Join us to learn why Dynamic MFA is essential for Virtual Organizations looking to leverage federated MFA, and how to make it work. Presenters will cover implementation and code release, the MFA deployment process, and challenges/lessons learned along the way.

ACAMP: BYOCT

And, of course, we hope to collaborate with you as you Bring Your Own COmanage Topic (BYOCT) to Advanced CAMP - the unconference component of CAMP week at Technology EXchange.

That’s it for this month’s newsletter; keep an eye out for our next one scheduled for late October. We hope to welcome you during our Open Office Hours on October 7th!

Open Office Hours - September 2

Do you have a question about deploying or configuring Registry or Match? Want to get some input on a solution architecture design? Want to hear how your colleagues in the community are solving problems similar to yours? Each month you can bring your topics for discussion to the call. No need to register or spin up a presentation (but feel free if it suits you!); just show up! A short conversation starter kicks off each session to help get the discussion started.

Friday, September 2 at 12:00 PM (America/New York) (no registration necessary)

https://us06web.zoom.us/j/84743471575?pwd=d29QNFM1KzEwUFZvRFg0enJ1dlNmQT09 

IN YOUR TIMEZONE & link for your calendar

September's Topic Aperitif: End of Summer Fun

In many countries, the end of summer is near. In the United States, Labor Day Weekend (which starts the Saturday after Open Office Hours) is the unofficial last weekend of Summer. Given the US holiday, we thought that participation may be light this month. Rather than fielding the “will this be recorded” questions from those who will be taking some time off, our “topic aperitif” this month is a small homage to summer with a very short Ice Cream Trivia quiz game. Who will play it cool and who will become legend-dairy?  As always, we will follow this 15 min intro with topics of your choosing. Bring your questions, comments, and suggestions about any COmanage topic to office hours with the project team.

COmanage Container Planning

If you use containerized versions of COmanage Registry (or Match), you might be wondering what guiding principles the COmanage project uses for developing and maintaining containers, and what the vision is for evolving and supporting containerized packaging. For the answers, we point you to the COmanage Container Roadmap that describes the guiding rationale and plan for building COmanage containers.

COmanage News

This newsletter section is designed to provide additional transparency on the day-to-day workings of COmanage. Have ideas about other information that we should be including? Let us know on the #incommon-comanage slack channel or by emailing Laura!

UPCOMING OPEN OFFICE HOURS

The final three Open Office Hours for 2022 (and their Topic Aperitifs) will be on a different schedule. Approximate timing is listed below; links for your calendar will be provided in next month's newsletter:

• OCT: week of 3 Oct (TBD) - Topic: Community Sharing TBA
• NOV: Thu, 27 Oct (NEW DAY!) - Topic: Open topics with the latest training cohort
• DEC: Open Office Hours LIVE! at Technology Exchange. (we’ll use zoom for those participating remotely) Date & time to come once assigned.

COmanage AT TECHNOLOGY EXCHANGE IN DECEMBER!

We are so excited that we will be presenting at Internet2’s Technology EXchange this December 5-9 in Denver, CO, USA:

Hands-on Introduction to COmanage Match

In this tutorial, you will learn how to set up matching rules, how to use dictionaries to set up more sophisticated matches, and techniques for testing and refining your match rules. Each participant will need a device with web browser capability. Tutorial limit: 20 participants.

Bridging the Divide: Dynamic MFA Using PrivacyIDEA, SATOSA, and COmanage

A growing number of Service Providers (SPs) require their users to sign in using Multi-factor Authentication (MFA) to ensure that SP-provided resources are securely accessed. However, federated Identity Providers (IdPs) are still evolving in their support for MFA. A flexible bridge solution is needed.

To address this challenge, the NIAID Discovery and Collaboration Platform (NDCP) developed a Dynamic MFA solution that uses campus MFA assertions when available and NDCP MFA when not. This solution combines three powerful tools: 1) PrivacyIDEA for token management and runtime authentication, 2) COmanage for NDCP MFA registration when IdPs don't provide MFA, and 3) SATOSA for SAML assertion and flow management. MFA-secured authentication from IdPs can be used directly even if the IdP does not signal it, and can automatically adjust when an IdP starts signaling MFA.

Join us to learn why Dynamic MFA is essential for Virtual Organizations looking to leverage federated MFA, and how to make it work. Presenters will cover implementation and code release, the MFA deployment process, and challenges/lessons learned along the way.

That’s it for this month’s newsletter; keep an eye out for our next one scheduled for late September. We hope to see you at our Open Office Hours on September 2nd!

Open Office Hours - August 5

Do you have a question about deploying or configuring Registry or Match? Want to get some input on a solution architecture design? Want to hear how your colleagues in the community are solving problems similar to yours? Each month you can bring your topics for discussion to the call. No need to register or spin up a presentation (but feel free if it suits you!); just show up! A short conversation starter kicks off each session to help get the discussion started.

Friday, August 5 at 12:00 PM (America/New York) (no registration necessary)

https://us06web.zoom.us/j/84743471575?pwd=d29QNFM1KzEwUFZvRFg0enJ1dlNmQT09 

IN YOUR TIMEZONE & link for your calendar

August's Topic Aperitif: Meet Your Match

COmanage Match has been much anticipated and is already being piloted by some organizations. Match provides an engine to help manage potential duplicates in your person (or other) registry. For this month’s “topic aperitif” we will do a show & tell of COmanage Match and its integration with Registry. We will follow this 15 min chat with topics of your choosing. Bring your questions, comments, and suggestions about any topic to office hours with the COmanage project team.

Getting Started with Match

To complement the Match Technical Manual, we have added several pages to our wiki to help those less familiar with COmanage to navigate the available information. This Match User Guide provides additional context that is useful in getting to know the capabilities of Match. We welcome your questions and suggestions for additional resources to include.

COmanage News

This newsletter section is designed to provide additional transparency on the day-to-day workings of COmanage. Have ideas about other information that we should be including? Let us know on the #incommon-comanage slack channel or by emailing Laura!

COmanage AT TECHNOLOGY EXCHANGE IN DECEMBER!

We are so excited that we will be presenting at Internet2’s Technology EXchange this December 5-9 in Denver, CO, USA:

Hands-on Introduction to COmanage Match

In this tutorial, you will learn how to set up matching rules, how to use dictionaries to set up more sophisticated matches, and techniques for testing and refining your match rules. Each participant will need a device with web browser capability. Tutorial limit: 20 participants.

Bridging the Divide: Dynamic MFA Using PrivacyIDEA, SATOSA, and COmanage

A growing number of Service Providers (SPs) require their users to sign in using Multi-factor Authentication (MFA) to ensure that SP-provided resources are securely accessed. However, federated Identity Providers (IdPs) are still evolving in their support for MFA. A flexible bridge solution is needed.

To address this challenge, the NIAID Discovery and Collaboration Platform (NDCP) developed a Dynamic MFA solution that uses campus MFA assertions when available and NDCP MFA when not. This solution combines three powerful tools: 1) PrivacyIDEA for token management and runtime authentication, 2) COmanage for NDCP MFA registration when IdPs don't provide MFA, and 3) SATOSA for SAML assertion and flow management. MFA-secured authentication from IdPs can be used directly even if the IdP does not signal it, and can automatically adjust when an IdP starts signaling MFA.

Join us to learn why Dynamic MFA is essential for Virtual Organizations looking to leverage federated MFA, and how to make it work. Presenters will cover implementation and code release, the MFA deployment process, and challenges/lessons learned along the way.

Moment of Zen: Now for something a little different...

Since we’ve spent much of this newsletter talking about COmanage Match we thought a change in pace would be fun with a Spot the Differences game! Take a look at the picture below where there are over 15 differences. Can you find them all? Hints and solutions (hover over the photo at the solutions link) can be found on the Flickr site.

CC BY-NC-SA 2.0: Spot the Difference. Caroline. 2013-Feb-18. Fickr. https://flic.kr/p/dVQwna

That’s it for this month’s newsletter; keep an eye out for our next one scheduled for late August. We hope to see you at our Open Office Hours on August 5th!

Open Office Hours - June 30 (THURSDAY)

NOTE: Open Office Hours will be on a different day of the week and time this month.

Do you have a question about deploying or configuring Registry or Match? Want to get some input on a solution architecture design? Want to hear how your colleagues in the community are solving problems similar to yours? Each month you can bring your topics for discussion to the call. No need to register or spin up a presentation (but feel free if it suits you!); just show up! A short conversation starter kicks off each session to help get the discussion started.

THURSDAY, June 30 at 2:00 PM (America/New York) (no registration necessary)

https://us06web.zoom.us/j/84743471575?pwd=d29QNFM1KzEwUFZvRFg0enJ1dlNmQT09 

IN YOUR TIMEZONE & link for your calendar

Note the new zoom link…

June's Topic Aperitif: Pick a topic

When we teach the COmanage Registry workshop, the last session has participants voting on the topics that they would like to hear more about or were not covered during training. This month we invite the broader community to join in this tradition, both to hear the topics and to contribute your insights and experiences to the conversation. The topics that are up for consideration are:

• Account Linking
• Duplicate Management
• Extending the COmanage Data Model
• Validating Identifiers
• Creating Message Templates
• More about Plugins
• Registry Jobs
• Status Management
• CO Services
• Intro to the COmanage API
• Overview of COmanage Match

COmanage News

This newsletter section is designed to provide additional transparency on the day-to-day workings of COmanage. Have ideas about other information that we should be including? Let us know on the #incommon-comanage slack channel or by emailing Laura!

COmanage REGISTRY HIGHLIGHTED AT BaseCAMP

During InCommon’s BaseCAMP this month, Registry was highlighted during the Registry 201 talk. You can see copies of the slides in the wiki.

That’s it for this month’s newsletter. Keep an eye out for our next one scheduled for late July. We hope to see you during our Open Office Hours on June 30th!

Open Office Hours - June 3

Do you have a question about deploying or configuring Registry or Match? Want to get some input on a solution architecture design? Want to hear how your colleagues in the community are solving problems similar to yours? Each month you can bring your topics for discussion to the call. No need to register or spin up a presentation (but feel free if it suits you!); just show up! A short conversation starter kicks off each session to help get the discussion started.

Friday, June 3 at 12:00 PM (America/New York) (no registration necessary)
https://illinois.zoom.us/j/84190579924?pwd=a1R6Q3VjWi92SHRETlVDMEthZVJYZz09

IN YOUR TIMEZONE & link for your calendar

June's Topic Aperitif: LIGO EffortManager

This month we will hear about the custom plugin, EffortManager, that was developed and is used by the LIGO Scientific Collaboration (LSC). EffortManager is used to enter the number of research effort hours spent by investigators. This information is tracked per individual (via a co_person role in COmanage) and is used to determine authorship privileges within the LIGO collaboration. The EffortManager plugin uses techniques that would be of interest to many plugin types: it is integrated with the menus, has context-sensitive rendering, and is called from enrollment flows. Come hear about this great project from Mike Manske, Associate Scientist at UWM Center for Gravitation, Cosmology, and Astrophysics and a member of the LIGO Scientific Collaboration (LSC). After this 15 min chat, we’ll continue with topics of your choosing. Bring your questions, comments, and suggestions about any topic to office hours with the COmanage project team.

How to File a Bug Report

This section is an excerpt from our Help & Support wiki page. Please refer to the page for more detailed instructions.

Bugs happen, and we want to know when they do! Given the large number of use cases that are addressed by COmanage, it is quite difficult to test for every prospective bug that could exist in the code. As a result, day-to-day users of COmanage may discover features that are not behaving as they should. What should you do in these situations? We’re glad you asked!

CHECK. When you first recognize a problem, a great starting point is to check the list of reported issues in the COmanage Issue Tracker to see if someone else has already reported the issue.

REPORT. If the issue you have discovered has not been reported, you can make a new one by signing into the Issue Tracker and creating a new detailed issue.

STAY INVOLVED. If you are able, consider submitting a patch to address the issue that you found. Or minimally you can “watch” the issue that you submitted so that you receive notifications when it is updated.

We look forward to your bug reports!

COmanage News

This newsletter section is designed to provide additional transparency on the day-to-day workings of COmanage. Have ideas about other information that we should be including? Let us know on the #incommon-comanage slack channel or by emailing Laura!

Training in June!

There is still time to sign up for training. A COmanage Registry training workshop has been added to the calendar for June 28-30. Learn the basics of administering Registry including connections to Source data, enrolling your population, passing information from Registry to your other systems, and lifecycle management. Register now. (The next training workshop will be offered in October 2022)

CHANGE: New Day for the Next Open Office Hours

Mark your calendar. After this week, the next Open Office Hours will be on Thursday, June 30 at 2:00 Eastern (NYC) instead of that week’s Friday. This change is so that the office hours are coordinated with the next training session so that this new cohort can join us. Come and welcome them to the user community!

Moment of Zen: The Solstice is Coming!

Travel and weather have been topics of conversation during our conference calls lately. For this month’s “moment of zen” we’re sharing some fun facts about the upcoming solstice. (An excerpt from Mental Floss.)

• The name comes from the fact that the Sun appears to stand still. The term solstice is derived from the Latin words sol (Sun) and sistere (to stand still), because the Sun's relative position in the sky at noon does not appear to change much during the solstice and its surrounding days. The rest of the year, the Earth's tilt on its axis—roughly 23.5 degrees—causes the Sun's path in the sky to rise and fall from one day to the next.
• One of the world's biggest bonfires was part of a summer solstice celebration. Cultures around the world have held celebrations in conjunction with the solstice for hundreds of years. Among these is Midsummer, which is celebrated on June 24 in Scandinavia and other northern European countries. In 2016, the people of Ålesund, Norway, set a world record for the tallest bonfire with their 155.5-foot celebratory blaze (their record was broken in 2019 by Austrian Carnival festivities).
• Thousands of people gather at Stonehenge to celebrate the summer solstice. People have long believed Stonehenge was the site of ancient druid solstice celebrations because of the way the Sun lines up with the stones on the winter and summer solstices. While there's no proven connection between Celtic solstice celebrations and the megalithic monument, these days, thousands of modern pagans gather at the landmark to watch the sunrise on the solstice.
• The ancient Chinese honored the yin on the summer solstice. In ancient China, the summer solstice was the yin to the winter solstice's yang—literally. Throughout the year, the Chinese believed, the powers of yin and yang waxed and waned in reverse proportion to each other. At the summer solstice, the influence of yang was at its height, but the celebration centered on the impending switch to yin. At the winter solstice, the opposite switch was honored.
• The summer solstice marks a dark time in science history. Legend has it that it was on the summer solstice in 1633 that Galileo Galilei was forced to recant his declaration that the Earth revolves around the Sun; even with doing so, he still spent the rest of his life under house arrest.

That’s it for this month’s newsletter. Keep an eye out for our next one scheduled for late June. We hope to see you during our Open Office Hours on June 3rd!

Open Office Hours - May 6

Do you have a question about deploying or configuring Registry or Match? Want to get some input on a solution architecture design? Want to hear how your colleagues in the community are solving problems similar to yours? Each month you can bring your topics for discussion to the call. No need to register or spin up a presentation (but feel free if it suits you!); just show up! A short conversation starter kicks off each session to help get the discussion started.

Friday, May 6 at 12:00 PM (America/New York) (no registration necessary)
https://illinois.zoom.us/j/84190579924?pwd=a1R6Q3VjWi92SHRETlVDMEthZVJYZz09

IN YOUR TIMEZONE & link for your calendar

May's Topic Aperitif: CILogon

CILogon provides a hosted, integrated, and open source identity and access management platform for research collaborations, combining federated identity management with collaborative organization management provided by COmanage Registry. Learn about the great work of CILogon during this 15 min chat, after which we’ll continue with topics of your choosing. Bring your questions, comments, and suggestions about any topic to office hours with the COmanage project team.

COmanage Community and Resources

Over the past several months, we have been adding pages to the COmanage wiki to help bundle related information with additional context on how these pieces are related. We are hoping that, in particular, those newer to COmange will find these pages helpful in discovering the rich information in the wiki. This month we added a page to highlight the wiki resources available to support the COmanage Community.

COmanage News

This newsletter section is designed to provide additional transparency on the day-to-day workings of COmanage. Have ideas about other information that we should be including? Let us know on the #incommon-comanage slack channel or by emailing Laura!

Match 1.0.0 - RC3 is available

We published Release Candidate 3 on Friday, April 29. We encourage those exploring Match for its first release to install this version. Please report any issues via JIRA or Slack. We expect to release RC4 or 1.0.0 final around mid-May, depending on what we hear back.

Getting the Latest Version

• Release Candidate:
  https://github.internet2.edu/COmanage/match/releases/tag/1.0.0-rc3
• TAP Container Version:
  https://spaces.at.internet2.edu/display/ITAP/InCommon+Trusted+Access+Platform+Release 

Installation Information

• Installation & Configuration Information:
  https://spaces.at.internet2.edu/display/COmanage/COmanage+Match+Technical+Manual
• Information for Updating from Previous Versions:
  https://spaces.at.internet2.edu/display/COmanage/Upgrading+Match 

FAQ: Most Asked? CO vs COU

The number one question that we are asked about COmanage once folks start to use it is the difference between the CO and COU objects and when to use each. While many organizations have natural subdivisions within them, the reason that you would divide your CO into COUs is that there are differences across your CO that necessitate different policies in one or more of the following:

• How individuals join and/or leave
• Differing rules about how applications get provisioned or de-provisioned
• Who manages person membership and privileges
• The information stored or used about members

Basically, if your collaboration, a single entity with common goals, has unique requirements among the different groups and/or departments regarding how participants will join those parts of your collaborations, then, you have a CO that contains COUs.  If you have only one common set of policies that define how individuals are added or removed from the CO, then you do not have COU even though you may have groups for simple access control.

Want to learn more? We encourage you to head to our wiki for a deeper explanation and a use case.

That’s it for this month’s newsletter; keep an eye out for our next one scheduled for late May. We hope to see you during our Open Office Hours on May 6th!

Open Office Hours - April 1

Do you have a question on deploying or configuring Registry or Match? Want to get some input on a solution architecture design? Want to hear how your colleagues in the community are solving problems similar to yours? Each month you can bring your topics for discussion to the call. No need to register or spin up a presentation (but feel free if it suits you!), just show up! Each session is kicked off by a short conversation starter to help get the discussion started.

Friday, April 1 at 12:00 PM (America/New York) (no registration necessary)
https://illinois.zoom.us/j/84190579924?pwd=a1R6Q3VjWi92SHRETlVDMEthZVJYZz09

IN YOUR TIMEZONE & link for your calendar

April's Topic Aperitif: Getting Personal(ized) with Themes

Even if you love the default COmanage Registry interface, you may want to make changes in how it looks, perhaps to match the look and feel of your organization’s website. For this month’s “‘topic aperitif” Arlen Johnson, resident UI/UX lead at the COmanage Project, will share a demonstration of how themes can change your end user’s experience with COmanage. Get your theming tips and tricks during this 15 min chat, after which we’ll continue with topics of your choosing. Bring your questions, comments, and suggestions about any topic to office hours with the COmanage project team.

Personalizing COmanage

The look and feel of the user interface with themes is not the only way that you can personalize the system for your needs. COmanage personalization features include:

• Themes - make the COmanage sites look and feel like your other sites.
• Dashboards - highlight the functions and information that you want your users to focus on.
• Message templates - create reusable email templates that can be personalized for recipients.
• Localization - for language or to change how things are labeled within the interface. This feature can be used to change the spoken language used for the entire interface or to change a few terms used specifically at your organization.
• CO navigation links - Want to link to other sites from COmanage? This feature is for you!
• Dictionaries - Customizable lists of words or terms that can be (re)used throughout the Registry. These are often used with Attribute Enumerations.
• Attribute enumerations - The ability to change free-form fields to be constrained to a selection of pre-determined values.
• Self-service permissions - With this feature, you can enable your COmange users to manage attributes that may be stored about themselves within COmanage.

You can learn more about each of these features on the new Personalizing COmanage Registry wiki page. 

Feel free to bring your questions and use cases repeated to customization to office hours!

COmanage News

This newsletter section is designed to provide additional transparency on the day-to-day workings of COmanage. Have ideas about other information that we should be including? Let us know on the #incommon-comanage slack channel or by emailing Laura!

Note for upcoming Registry deployments using MySQL

If you are newly deploying COmanage and are planning to use MySQL as your database, this note is for you! MySQL versions 8.0.1 or higher are currently incompatible with Registry because of a new MySQL keyword conflict. As a workaround, you can either use an older version of MySQL or use a different database like MariaDB or PostgreSQL.

If this issue is of interest to you, we encourage you to watch Jira issue CO-2383. We expect this issue to be addressed in Registry version 4.0.3.

Match 1.0.0 - there will be an RC3

COmanage uses Release Candidates (RCs) to get feedback prior to the official release. Match v1.0.0 has had two RCs, each thoroughly tested by users. Given this feedback, we will release a third RC to test changes made on RC2. We will announce the RC3 release via the comanage-announce mailing list.

Moment of Zen: Gear Facts

The COmanage logo consists of three gears. These gears symbolize how COmanage serves as an engine to provide greater leverage when processing information from external systems and to prepare them for use by other systems. This got us thinking… what don’t we know about gears? Here are a few gear facts from Easy Science for Kids:

• The first gears were wooden and had wooden teeth. They were used in watermills, windmills, etc.
• First of all, metal gears were used in clocks.
• The gears used in cars are called helical.
• When one gear turns, it also turns the other gear.
• Gears are used to generate more speed or power or transmit power from one part of a machine to another part.
• Not all gears are in a circular shape. A few of them have a shape of cone and square as well.

That’s it for this month’s newsletter; keep an eye out for our next one scheduled for late April. We hope to see you at our Open Office Hours on April 1st!

Open Office Hours - Mar 4

Do you have a question on deploying or configuring Registry or Match? Want to get some input on a solution architecture design? Want to hear how your colleagues in the community are solving problems similar to yours? Each month you can bring your topics for discussion to the call. No need to register or spin up a presentation (but feel free if it suits you!), just show up! Each session is kicked off by a short conversation starter to help get the discussion started.

Friday, March 4 at 12:00 PM (America/New York) (no registration necessary)
https://illinois.zoom.us/j/84190579924?pwd=a1R6Q3VjWi92SHRETlVDMEthZVJYZz09

IN YOUR TIMEZONE & link for your calendar

February's Topic Aperitif: COmanage Training Perspectives

In 2019, we created the first COmanage Registry training program. Since then, we have taught the class 5 times, enhancing it each time. For this month’s “‘topic aperitif” we will share perspectives about COmanage training, and give a peek into what is taught and how. Already taken it? Share what you thought, and give us feedback on what was missing. Taking the workshop this March? Share what you hope to get out of it. We will follow this 15 min chat with topics of your choosing. Bring your questions, comments, and suggestions about any topic to office hours with the COmanage project team.

The Versions of COmanage

COmanage manages changes to its open-source code in a Github Repository and uses a git-flow style branch management strategy to fuel new releases.*  The current release or release candidate is always on the “main” branch. This release is always documented on the Release History page.

The software team develops features on their own branches named after the feature. Once these features are ready to be shared, they are added to the “develop” branch where they remain until they are ready to be included in the next release. Occasionally there are bugs that need to be addressed in between releases. These are stored on the “hotfix” branch until they are added to a release.

Organizations that are using COmanage have the flexibility to incorporate fixes or features before they are part of the official release. This advanced feature is only recommended for teams that would be able to manage potential conflicts that could happen with this approach. As always, feel free to reach out with questions!

* Not a software developer? New to Github? May we suggest this Git and Github for Poets tutorial series from The Coding Train for an accessible orientation of the tool.

COmanage News

This newsletter section is designed to provide additional transparency on the day-to-day workings of COmanage. We’re starting small with a high-level update from the development team. We are looking forward to hearing your ideas on what other information we can include.

COmanage Training week

The next class will be the week of March 7! - there’s still time to sign up.

Registry 4.0.2 release

COmanage Registry v4.0.2 was released on Thursday, Feb 24. We recommend all deployments upgrade to this release. A Security Advisory is being posted along with this release. While this Advisory is not expected to apply to most deployments, all deployments should review the Advisory to determine if any action is warranted. Further details are posted to the COmanage Registry Security Advisories page.

You can find more details about this release on the COmanage wiki.

Match 1.0.0

We held back this release to address a few things found in our last round of detailed testing. We will announce when it is read through a notification to the comanage-announce mailing list.

Moment of Zen: What difference does a capital letter make?

Turns out, a lot - at least if you're talking about COmanage. We were curious about what all of those other comanages were about....

• comanage (Merriam-Webster) - transitive verb, to manage (someone or something) with one or more other people
• coManage (comanage.com) - a full-featured property management software-as-a-service.
• CoManage (comanage.me) - Met onze handige bedrijfssoftware regel je online administratie, facturatie, klantenbeheer, voorraadbeheer, offertes én projectbeheer. (We'll let you translate that one if necessary!)

That’s it for this month’s newsletter; keep an eye out for our next one scheduled for late March. We hope to see you at our Open Office Hours on March 4th!

Open Office Hours - Feb 4

Do you have a question on deploying or configuring Registry or Match? Want to get some input on a solution architecture design? Want to hear how your colleagues in the community are solving problems similar to yours? Each month you can bring your topics for discussion to the call. No need to register or spin up a presentation (but feel free if it suits you!), just show up!

Friday, February 4 at 12:00 PM (America/New York) (no registration necessary)
https://illinois.zoom.us/j/84190579924?pwd=a1R6Q3VjWi92SHRETlVDMEthZVJYZz09

IN YOUR TIMEZONE & link for your calendar

February's Topic Aperitif: COmanage & PeopleSoft

At the last ACAMP conference, we had a great session about how to use COmanage in conjunction with PeopleSoft. For this month’s “topic aperitif” we welcome Tommy Doan and the team from SMU to share their experiences with integrating PeopleSoft and COmanage. We will follow this 15 min chat with a discussion of your choosing. Bring your questions, comments, and suggestions for office hours with the COmanage project team.

It's coming! Match 1.0.0!

COmanage Match Release Candidate 2 (RC2) was released on January 11. We expect all of the feedback is in and that we will be releasing version 1.0.0 in the next week or so! Match is new software that performs identity de-duplication to help minimize the unintentional creation of multiple accounts for the same individual. Match can be used with Registry or as a standalone product that can be used with your other tools.

Some helpful links:

• LEARN: About Identity Matching
• LEARN: COmanage Match Technical Manual
• INSTALL: Match Installation Documentation

We welcome your questions about COmanage Match during open office hours!

COmanage News

This new newsletter section is designed to provide additional transparency on the day-to-day workings of COmanage. We’re starting small with a high-level update from the development team. We are looking forward to hearing your ideas on what other information we can include.

Registry Framework Migration Progress

We continue to work on the migration of the Registry codebase to the new version of CakePHP (Registry v5.0.0). We have set up a group of small internal milestones to track our progress. Each milestone sets up the underlying architecture of part of the COmanage model. We are excited to be close to finishing up the first of these milestones, Milestone Release 1 (MR1). It includes the initial migration of the CO person model to the new framework. We also have been working on new designs for the next generation user interface! While it is too early to download and try out the in-progress work, you can see in Jira what is included using this COmanage Registry v5.0.0 Milestone Release 1 filter or take a look at the project task list.

Why is the milestone release called PE?

Fun fact! When looking at Jira tickets and development team notes about the COmanage Framework Migration (CFM) project, you may see reference to ‘PE’ (for example, “PE Milestone 1”). PE stands for “Pupal Eclosion”, the name of the v5.0.0 release. Our release names are always very specifically chosen; cue the internet searching… ;-)

Goodbye for now...

That’s it for this month’s newsletter; keep an eye out for our next one scheduled for late February. We hope to see you at our Open Office Hours on February 4th.

Open Office Hours - Jan 7

Do you have a question on deploying or configuring Registry or Match? Want to get some input on a solution architecture design? Want to hear how your colleagues in the community are solving problems similar to yours? Each month you can bring your topics for discussion to the call. No need to register or spin up a presentation (but feel free if it suits you!), just show up!

Friday, January 7 at 12:00 PM (America/New York) (no registration necessary)
https://illinois.zoom.us/j/84190579924?pwd=a1R6Q3VjWi92SHRETlVDMEthZVJYZz09

IN YOUR TIMEZONE & link for your calendar

January's Topic Aperitif: COmanage CORE API

COmanage has several APIs to support system integrations with the Registry. The newest to this collection is the Core API, a collection of higher-level API endpoints that provide transaction-oriented operations. This new feature complements the REST API that provides lower-level, model-oriented access to Registry data. For this month’s “topic aperitif” we will give a quick intro to the new COmanage Core API and some of its common uses.

What's coming in version 4.1?

One maintenance release of the Registry (v4.0.1) was released on December 7, and another one (v4.0.2) is expected in January. And, as usual, we’re working on the next feature release (v4.1.0) as well. The feature freeze date for version 4.1.0 is targeted for January 15, with a target release of this new version in early March Here is a list of what we expect will be in that release with links to related information. Maybe you’ll have questions about them for the next monthly office hours!

• ApiSource Accepts Multiple Roles
• Enrollment Flow Integration with ID Match
• Manager Data Model Element
• Novi Organizational Identity Source
• Person Vetting
• Service Eligibility Plugin

Feel free to bring your questions about this update to office hours!

Goodbye for now...

That’s it for this month’s newsletter; keep an eye out for our next one scheduled for late January. We hope to see you at our Open Office Hours on January 7th. Until then, Happy New Year!

Open Office Hours - Dec 3

Do you have a question on deploying or configuring Registry or Match? Want to get some input on a solution architecture design? Want to hear how your colleagues in the community are solving problems similar to yours? Each month you can bring your topics for discussion to the call. No need to register or spin up a presentation (but feel free if it suits you!), just show up!

Friday, December 3 at 12:00 PM (America/New York) (no registration necessary)
https://illinois.zoom.us/j/84190579924?pwd=a1R6Q3VjWi92SHRETlVDMEthZVJYZz09

IN YOUR TIMEZONE & link for your calendar

December's Topic Aperitif: COmanage UI/UX Plans-Groups & People Picker

With the upcoming framework migration, we have been thinking a lot about the COmanage user interface. For this month’s “topic aperitif” we will do a mini-tour of two areas that have been in our Registry pull requests lately: Groups Interface and the People Picker. We will follow this 10 min chat with discussions of your choosing. Bring your questions, comments, and suggestions for office hours with the COmanage project team.

Framework Migration: What you should know

The COmanage products are built using PHP and a framework called CakePHP. COmanage Registry is built on top of CakePHP v2, which has reached End of Life (EOL). The COmanage Project is ramping up development efforts for Registry v5, which will be built on top of the latest CakePHP. (COmanage Match is already built on top of CakePHP v4.)

This is a major infrastructure investment necessary for the long-term viability of the product. We'll keep you up to date as the effort progresses, but for now here are some informational highlights:

• You can track progress using our new JIRA instance, CFM.
• We'll be redirecting resources from Registry v4 to Registry v5. You may notice it takes longer for v4 issues to get resolved, and where possible we will defer issues to v5. We'll no longer make breaking changes to Registry v4 so we can focus on preparing for Registry v5.
• We're using the opportunity to clean up some long-standing Registry issues and improve the frontend and APIs.
• While we're trying to make the data model transition seamless, Registry v5 will require significant breaking changes from Registry v4 (including URLs and plugins). We'll provide more details for upgrading when we're ready for early testing.

Feel free to bring your questions about Framework Migration to office hours! We may not have all the answers yet, but hearing your concerns early on will help ensure a smoother transition later.

Goodbye for now...

That’s it for this month’s newsletter; keep an eye out for our next one scheduled for late December. We hope to see you at our Open Office Hours on December 3rd!

NEW! Open Office Hours - Nov 5

Do you have a question on deploying or configuring Registry or Match? Want to get some input on a solution architecture design? Want to hear how your colleagues in the community are solving problems similar to yours? Each month you can bring your topics for discussion to the call. No need to register or spin up a presentation (but feel free if it suits you!), just show up!

Friday, November 5 at 12:00 PM (America/New York) (no registration necessary)
https://illinois.zoom.us/j/84190579924?pwd=a1R6Q3VjWi92SHRETlVDMEthZVJYZz09

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November's Topic Aperitif: Login/SSH Access

To help get the conversations started, the COmanage team will begin each call with a focused topic. During the recent COmanage Registry training event, a number of people asked about using COmanage Registry to manage login/SSH access to computing resources like Linux clusters, so for November's "topic aperitif" we offer a recap of that discussion. We will follow this 15 min chat with topics you choose. Bring your questions, comments, and suggestions for office hours with the COmanage Project team.

The Registry 4.0.0 Release

Have you heard? The October 2021 COmanage Registry release was a big one! Here we outline a few of the highlights:

• Asynchronous Provisioning - Now you can provision data about your populations to your other systems with queueing! There is also an asynchronous retry if things don’t go through the first time.
• Groups Goodness - Last year we added nested groups to support more sophisticated group management. In this latest version, we take it one step further by adding boolean logic to group nesting. Oh, and groups never looked better with a new and more intuitive interface.
• Facilitating Identity Assurance - Identity assurance is becoming increasingly important in trusted interactions between organizations. Two new Registry features facilitate your enforcement of assurance policies during enrollment flows: MFA Enrollment Management and Identity Document Collection.
• Improved Matching - Registry already supported integration with tools like COmanage Match. v4.0.0 enhances and improves these configurations and API connections. 
• New Plugins - Who doesn’t love a Registry Plugin? These helpful items extend Registry functionality and enable connections to your external systems. v4.4.0 includes:
  • NEW Plugins!
    • Privacy IDEA Authenticator
    • API Provisioner
    • JIRA Provisioner
    • LDAP Provisioner voPersonToken
  • Enhanced Plugins
    • API Source Poll Mode (Apache Kafka)
    • File Source CSV v2
    • Password Authenticator Self Service Reset

So many new things! And yet, the improvements listed are just a fraction of them. We encourage you to check out the Registry 4.0.0 Release Announcement for all the details. Or, stop by this month's office hours to ask your questions!

Goodbye for now...

That’s it for this month’s newsletter; keep an eye out for our next one scheduled for late November. We hope to see you at our Open Office Hours next week!