Univention Corporate Server (UCS) is our open integration platform which, with Nubus, offers centralized Identity & Access Management with a web portal for easy access to applications and enables the management of heterogeneous IT domains through comprehensive Active Directory functions.
- Portal with Single Sign- On
- Integrated Identity & Access Management
- Packaged integrations
- App Center with enterprise applications
- Active Directory integration
- Platform for your entire IT
- Operation on-premise, in the cloud or hybrid
Univention Corporate Server (UCS) is our all-in-one solution for centralized Identity & Access Management (IAM) and at the same time the platform with which you can efficiently control and manage your entire IT infrastructure and all servers. UCS is highly scalable and can be operated in your own data center or in the cloud.
The centerpiece of UCS is Nubus - with our central IAM solution you can manage identities, roles and groups. The integrated portal with Single Sign-On and Self-Service functions is your go-to point for all IT services, applications and tools. Thanks to pre-built software and integration packages, apps can be easily put into operation. You can find a wide range of enterprise applications in our Univention App Center.
UCS is ideal for managing distributed, heterogeneous and virtualized IT environments, regardless of whether you use Microsoft Windows, Mac OS or Linux systems. With the integrated IT infrastructure management, you can manage server and desktop systems centrally, across locations and platforms via an easy-to-use web interface.
Thanks to standardized interfaces, UCS can be easily integrated into your existing IT environment. Comprehensive Active Directory functions enable seamless integration with Microsoft Windows environments or their uncomplicated replacement.
Find out more about UCS on our website: https://www.univention.com/products/ucs/
Click here to download the free UCS Core Edition: https://www.univention.com/download-ucs/
Comments and Reviews
Great alternative to Microsoft Small Business Server
Premise that I am not an IT professional and was introduced to UCS by Owncloud, which uses UCS since version 10 as "package container.
I downloaded a VirtualBox machine and ran it. I must say the various settings are not hyper intuitive for the non pro, but with a little trial and error I got it working. Since it is an integrated environment, It manages easily the digital certificates that make my cloud secure and it allows me to run my own cloud service from a small computer at home. There are many other software services offered, but I must say that regretfully, they are a lot harder to use or, in some cases not working, so it has been a little frustrating, because they are really cool. For instance, a package called guacamole would allow to remote desktop to other computers in my network from within a web browser, but Univention admits that it is probably not working. One cool package that works is a Wordpress implementation, which I have tested and seems to do its job. Altogether, for non pros, I would give it a more than passing grade.
Univention Corporate Server 4.3-3 was released on December 11, 2018. More information at: https://help.univention.com/t/ucs-4-3-3-thirt-point-release-for-ucs-4-3-available/10649
Based on the demo its ok, but needs more options for more control.
If you need assistance, the Univention forum is a great resource https://help.univention.com/ or the other community support pages, see: https://www.univention.com/products/support/community-support/
For those who are interested in practical application examples for Univention Corporate Server (UCS) and UCS Virtual Machine Manager (UVMM) can go to Univention's reference site and take a look at the application spectrum for UCS and UVMM at: UCS/UVMM case studies
Since a long time, Univention Corporate Server is already available as Amazon Machine Image in AWS, so setup a public- or virtual-private-cloud-instances of Univention Corporate Server, actually in version 3.2 rev 2. This offers a lot of amazing scenarios, to provide different services how mail-services, file-services etc. in cloud. It´s already possible, several instances of UCS on premise and "in cloud" to work together. AWS itsself provides a lot of security-issues to secure any connection beetween local and cloud-instances of UCS, how virtual private clouds, virtual private networks or network acls. Additionally Univention provides an amazing app "OPENVPN4UCS" in App-Center ( https://www.univention.de/produkte/ucs/app-katalog/app/details/openvpn4ucs ), to secure connnections to cloud-ucs-instances.