News and Updates
September 23, 2009: CAS2 retirement scheduled
The CAS2 service will be shut off January 11, 2010.
February 1, 2009: Changes in the TAMU LDAP Directory Infrastructure
Texas A&M University's Directory Services are undergoing a major upgrade over the course of 2009. The Steering Committee has completed their review of the schema and defined several new attributes, some of which have already been populated. Within the next several months, the remainder of the approved changes will be implemented.
These changes include:- Obsolete attributes will be deprecated.
- New attributes will be added to the schema and populated.
- Notices about new data being added to the directory will be posted on http://enhancement.tamu.edu/news.php
- The schema change log can be used to look up modifications in attribute population made since January 2007.
- A new enterprise LDAP directory will be brought on-line.
- The enterprise directory (view schema) will be the core repository of enterprise-level information for all individuals and will be the directory housing campus NetID accounts. Campus authentication and authorization will rely on this directory.
- Access to the new enterprise directory will be governed by security policies as established by the office of the Chief Information Security Officer.
- operator.tamu.edu will become the white pages directory.
- The white pages directory (view schema) will support:
- the campus Directory Search and applications wanting to connect to a public directory
- @tamu.edu and @neo.tamu.edu email routing
- If a student requests that their personal information not be publicly accessible, that information will not be loaded into the white pages directory.
- The white pages directory (view schema) will support:
- NetID account deletion is going to be much more timely.
We have been working with TAMU HR to develop new rules governing account deletion for employees. These will be implemented Summer 2009.
Important Dates in the Upgrade:
- April 22, 2009: A presentation on changes in the data and account management will be given at the IT Forum.
- June 1, 2009: Deprecation of obsolete attributes and tamuStatus flags