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The UK access management federation provides access to online resources and services by staff and students at education institutions all over the UK.

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Joined February 2009
Getting emails about keytochoice.co.uk being unavailable, response 10 wk days won’t sort it before "new homes at 3.30pm today". Can HC help/contact us? @KateC_SNP @davidfkeySNP @kevin_lang @johnmclellan @CllrCMiller @GJMunro26 @susan4leithwalk @cameronrose @CllrNormanWork
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Looks like the immediate issue resolved, our service email address no longer appearing on the keytochoice.co.uk page and the correct contact details appearing there.
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.@UKfederation The CDS has been online since 10:54 and stable. Apologies for the inconvenience.
UK federation website ukfederation.org.uk is back online. Please email any further problems to mailto:[email protected]
UK federation website unavailable — apologies for the unplanned downtime. We are working to fix this.
Our Central Discovery Service is fully available again.
Partial outage of our Central Discovery Service. You can still “choose IdP from list” Details at ukfederation.org.uk/content/…
eduGAIN participation will become the default for UK federation entities during November 2014: ukfederation.org.uk/content/…
UK federation given as example of @Jisc service "not the most glamorous [but] crucial to everyday academic activity." bit.ly/1nAu308
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UK federation retweeted
Martyn Harrow's yellow paper for @HEPI_news 'Jisc: a hidden advantage for higher education' bit.ly/1nAu308
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Job vacancy: Metadata Officer with the UK federation team. ukfederation.org.uk/content/… Closing date 19 September.
We have an update for our earlier #heartbleed advisory for operators of #Shibboleth and #OpenAthens products ukfederation.org.uk/content/…
UK federation retweeted
Initial UKf "heartbleed" advisory is here: ukfederation.org.uk/content/…
Initial UK federation security advisory on Heartbleed OpenSSL vulnerability: ukfederation.org.uk/content/…
UK federation metadata signing with SHA256 signature profile, delayed to Wednesday 28 August. ukfederation.org.uk/content/…
Shibboleth SP V2.5.2 has been released: bit.ly/14nJagg
UK federation retweeted
Shibboleth Consortium officially launched bit.ly/18KLSyS. Shib is open-source software to access web services across different orgs.
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New editions of the UK federation technical documentation are now available bit.ly/ZMfmFD