The federal city of Bonn has 88 schools with around 47,300 user accounts, which are managed centrally by NetCologne IT Services GmbH using UCS@school. The UCS Microsoft 365 Connector also enables UCS users to single sign-on to the Office software solution.
User
The federal city of Bonn is an independent city in the administrative district of Cologne with a total of 88 schools, 38 of which are secondary schools. NetCologne IT Services GmbH manages around 47,300 user accounts on behalf of the school authorities.
Requirements
- Central identity management for all users with the option of connecting to other services.
- Provision of a learning platform as a pedagogical interface for school operations.
- GDPR-compliant management of mobile devices (iPads).
- Connection of schools to Microsoft 365, Moodle and Jamf School.
- Implementation of central software distribution.
Solution
- Switch to a central solution with a primary directory node in the NetCologne IT Services GmbH data center and own replica directory nodes in the schools.
- Central administration of user accounts with UCS@school as primary directory node.
- Installation of a separate UCS@school server (replica directory node) at each of the 38 secondary schools.
- Central identity management for all users, including an optional Moodle connection with an external service provider, which is connected to the UCS system. Currently 16 schools with around 10,000 users use the service.
- Connection of the Mobile Device Management (MDM) Jamf School for the administration of mobile devices to UCS@school.
- Single sign-on for Microsoft 365 with the UCS Microsoft 365 Connector.
- Implementation and integration of central software distribution with OPSI.
