Demonstration of the accomplishments at CSU Chico's recent portal deployment. CAS is used as the authentication layer and has integration hooks into PeopleSoft (thanks to CalPoly), IMAP, IMP Horde, and various custom PHP local apps. A locally written graphic statistics viewer for adiminstrators over the Portal Cluster (4 servers). UI refinements that reduced the page payload down 75%.
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This presentation describes the institution-wide deployment of Nagoya University Portal by using uPortal and CAS. In our current system, CAS is acting as not only "Central Authentication Service" but also "Central Authorization Service" to control the access to CASified applications, based on "when", "who", "from where", "what service", in conjunction with LDAP attributes and so on. In this presentation, we focus on 1) our current implementation of Nagoya University Portal, 2) some load test results (we attained about 5,000 CAS-authentications per minute), 3) permission management of CASified applications, 4) a hooking of application after being authenticated by CAS. Through these experiences, we recognized that this kind of "central authorization scheme" is quite powerful for heterogeneous environment like university. Also, we anticipate that this Central Authentication Service and Central Authorization Service (=CAS^2) can be used as the information infrastructure that enables a "user-context aware" application environment in higher educational institutions under ubiquitous computing environment.
Shoji Kajita Presentation (PowerPoint)
Hisashi Naito Presentation (PDF)

This presentation will walk the audience through the solutions we used to make uPortal achieve to the list of wants we've mentioned. These solutions range from using existing features of the framework in unique ways to a major rewriting of some of the underlying presentation logic. This presentation will focus on the front-end technologies of uPortal involving use of XML, XSLT, HTML and CSS.
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Often times business events occur unbeknownst to students that effect them in significant ways; a late bill payment places a hold on a their records and prevents them from registering for classes. myRutgers Alerts system provides students timely notification of business events through a delivery mechanism of their choosing. The system is layered on top of uPortal 2.4.x and leverages support for the Portlet API, Spring PortletMVC, CAS and Web Services. This session will discuss the business drivers, the user experience and review the system architecture.
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Cal Poly will describe its approach to integrating PeopleSoft HR and PeopleSoft Financials and Oracle Collaboration Suite (OCS) (used for Calendar and E-Mail) into uPortal. The Cal Poly approach involved Central Authentication Services, and LDAP using Oracle Internet Directory. The presentation will provide a high level overview of the configuration as well as outline the technical issues that were encountered and solutions that were used.
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A combination survey, tutorial and Q&A for uPortal implementors looking to configure the groups and permissions services or just curious about them. The focus of the session is on how to use local sources of information, e.g., LDAP. A variety of approaches will be discussed and also includes a peek at configuring the stand-alone groups and permissions services in uPortal 3.0.
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VTSurvey is a web-based tool which enables end users to autonomously create and run online surveys, feedback or registration forms. By providing a forms-based visual editor, the use of VTSurvey requires no programming knowledge or skills in HTML. VTSurvey's built-in user management system enables it to serve large organizations and facilitates collaborative survey development and administration.
VTCalendar (PDF)
VTFileManager (PDF)
VTSurvey (PDF)

Identity Management has multiple components. uPortal customers are already implementing some Identity components like authentication (example Kerberos) and Web ISO (Yale's CAS). However Identity Management means different things to different and there is a great deal of hype in the sector leading to confusion.
This panel discussion aims to explain the broad concepts of Identity from Authentication, Authorization to Federated Identity and highlight the current technical trends in each.

Technologies under discussion will include both commercial and open source options from PubCookie to SAML and Shibboleth.

Several open source Javascript capabilities involving drag and drop and HTML editing can greatly enhance the functionality of channels. These capabilities will be demonstrated in the context of a new uPortal theme called DnDPreferences and an ePortfolio channel. The process to incorporate these features in your own portal will also be described.
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At the outset of the portal project at the University of Hull, two key strands were identified, the portal framework and a complementary Content Management System to ensure information in the portal was current and correct.

After an initial, successful pilot with an in-house CMS it was decided that for the longer term a more sustainable solution was required. Following an evaluation of available systems, HyperContent, developed at Columbia University and recently adopted as a JA-SIG project, was chosen. This presentation will look at the process of evaluation and the ensuing deployment of HyperContent, including installation, creation of sites, documentation, and training of users.
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This kiosk will demonstrate the enhancements, developed by the my.mun.ca team, to uPortal's "integrated modes" theme in an attempt to improve the preference features and overall experience for Memorial users.

Over the past six months, Unicon, Inc. has been working with the University of Southern California to make major enhancements to the Announcements Channel originally created by Columbia University. For example: a pluggable html WYSIWYG editor, Role-based topic management, Announcement and topic paging and page navigation, Sorting and paging preferences management, New end user and administrator views and features, etc. These changes have all been donated back to the uPortal community. This joint presentation between Unicon and USC will walk through the new features of the Announcements channel, answer any questions on the functionality, and discuss the upcoming modifications that will be released.
USC Announcements 3.0 Presentation (PDF)
USC Announcements 3.0 Presentation (OpenOffice)

My UW-Madison has been the enterprise portal for the University of Wisconsin-Madison for over three years.

This presentation will describe how we have approached the many aspects of managing, improving, maintaining and operating this critical enterprise resource.

In terms of organization, UW-Madison has a several distinct teams set up to address the variety of portal needs. These vary from the cross-campus, senior management Portal Advisory Group to the portal infrastructure team and the various portal development teams. Likewise, a variety of communication mechanisms are in place to effectively communication the right information to the right individuals.
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This is an informal, very interactive session in which you are asked to share your institutional perspectives on the current state, future plans, challenges, and issues related to uPortal deployment. Open to all, but ideally one representative per institution in order to maximize participation.

Documentation related to uPortal is scattered about in several places; the uPortal web site, a confluence based wiki, email lists, the uPortal issue management system (using Jira), and related documention from external sources. This presentation will provide a roadmap to useful uPortal documentation for those interested in getting established with uPortal.
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