October 2018

SMI019

UniDesk for UHI

Category: Discretionary

Milestones:

Agreed at WIS 14-Sep-2018:

RAG Status:  GREEN 

Report by Richard Bailey for October 2018

Achievements this Period

• Quickcalls was formally requested by UHI and added to scope (as part of Azure authentication)
• Initial consultancy completed
• Person / CMDB Import (TEST) initiated
• Azure / Quickcalls research and development initiated

Issues

• None

Next Steps

• Review milestones with Project Team / Customer and if required raise a PICCL to WIS
• Complete Person / CMDB Import (TEST)
• Complete Initial Configuration (TEST)
• Complete Configuration Changes Support (TEST)
• Achieve TEST SIGN OFF (Without Azure)
• Complete Azure / Quickcalls research and development
• Apply / Document Azure Authentication (TEST)
• TEST Sign OFF (With Azure / Quickcalls)

SMI020

UniDesk for RCA

Category: Discretionary

Milestones

Agreed at WIS 21-Sep-2018:

RAG Status:     GREEN

Report by Richard Bailey for October 2018

Achievements this Period

• RCA initial consultation completed
• Shibboleth instructions have been provided to RCA.  UoE are still awaiting RCA to release details to UK-FED after UoE helped RCA obtain support from OpenAthens in regard to the risk outlined below, UoE continue to monitor progress
• Person / CMDB Import instructions provided, with a decision agreed to include the field Job Title

Issues

• Risk:  RCA authentication model (Open Athens) is out of date and on legacy code. While it is SAML 2 there is a risk that this is not fully operable with the UniDesk service

Next Steps

• Review milestones with Project Team / Customer and if required raise a PICCL to WIS (in light of the risk above)
• Complete Person / CMDB Import (TEST)
• Review / Initial Configuration (TEST)
• Apply Configuration Changes Support (TEST)
• Apply Shibboleth Authentication (TEST)
• Achieve TEST SIGN OFF

SMI018 (AP67-042)

UniDesk Annual Upgrade