TechTalks Event
Directories on Campus: Getting Started
with guest experts Frank Grewe and Mike LaHaye
November 4, 1999
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What is a campus directory. Why is a campus directory important? Are there separable components? Does it stand alone or is it integrated with larger pieces such as security, authorization, and authentication? What are some of the directions campuses are going in? Can you outsource a directory? Should you? Data is the enabler - "It's the data, dummy!"- who gets their hands on the data?
Frank
Grewe is a Manager in the Academic
& Distributed Computing Services unit of the Office
of Information Technology with the University
of Minnesota. Mike LaHaye is a Manager in the University
of Michigan Computing Environment unit of the Information
Technology Division with the University
of Michigan. He has been working with directory services since
1994. Mike led the centralized deployment of Novell Directory Services
at the University of Michigan. More recently he has been involved
in the ongoing migration of the campus LDAP service from an X.500
based service to Open LDAP. Frank was one of our guest
experts, along with Jeff Hodges of Stanford, at a session
on Campus Directories in April of 1999. It's one of nearly
forty archived Tech Talk events where you can listen to audio
of past events, browse lists of related hyperlinks, or read the
indexed transcripts.
This
time around, Frank will be joined by Mike LaHaye of the University
of Michigan. They're prepared to answer questions from our co-hosts
and from you about campus directories—with an emphasis on "getting
started." Bookmark this page and come back soon for more information
about our guests and for hyperlinks to useful, related information.
Co-Hosts
Howard Strauss, Manager of Academic Applications at Princeton
University, is TechTalk's Technology Anchor.
Co-Host Judith Boettcher is CREN's Executive Director.
Together, Howard and Judith will ask the really tough questions—and
relay the questions you email to them at expert@cren.net.
Background & Resources
Here are some for you:- Visit the Open LDAP organization - OpenLDAP 1.2.7 is currently available.
- The Open Group Directory Program is a consortium of companies with a common interest in the implementation, testing, deployment and usage of directory (both LDAP and X.500) products in the market place.
- A University of Michigan reference resource for Ldap
- Stanford Registry & Directory Infrastructure: A Case History
- LDAP and X.500 Roadmap
