University of Colorado An Approach for Deploying Multi- campus Directory Services

CU Environment 4 campuses and central system (5 th ) No permanent unique identifier Individuals have multiple campus presence Many loose (sponsored) affiliations Unaligned computing environments

CU Environment (Cont) No standardized naming Each campus needs to maintain unique directory attributes No common authentication method

CU Approach Centralized identity management –University-wide data sources –Campus specific data sources –Central reconciliation Separate but unified directory structure –Common schema at university level –Campus level objects

Object hierarchy University Level –inetorgperson –eduperson –cueduperson Campus level objects –coloradoeduperson –uccseduperson –etc

Colorado Colo SpgsUCHSCDenverBoulder Registry Central Data Sources Campus Data Sources

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