AAF Shibboleth Rollout Workshop

As part of preparing community readiness for AAF, we are holding a number of 2-day workshops in major cities in Australia during the months of October and November, 2008.

Day 1 of the workshop will cover the following topics (not hands-on):

• Introduction of AAF
• Institutional requirements, obligations, and procedures for joining AAF
• AAF policy and operational procedures
• tools, processes, support and technical infrastructure of AAF

Day 2 of the workshop is divided into 2 half-day hands-on sessions. The morning session is "Shibboleth Fast-track for Beginners" and the afternoon session is "Advanced AAF Shibboleth".

Day 2 Session 1: Shibboleth Fast-track for Beginners

• Configuring a pre-installed IdP
• LDAP, resolving attributes, simple attribute mapping
• Configuring a pre-installed SP
• Detail of interactions between IdP and SP
• Protecting an application
• Access limitation enforcement to services
• Authorization mechanisms
• Overview of tools in the Federation, may not get the chance to explore them all in detail

Day 2 Session 2: Advanced AAF Shibboleth

• Attribute Management via ShARPE and Autograph
• Management of Federation entry, service discovery, controlling access for end-users
• User discovery and PeoplePicker
• mapping user's attributes to local user account, enforcement of authorization
• SharedToken and Grid services
• Suite of tools for collaboration: AAF Federated Services
• Interfacing to non-web applications
• Other topics (please send me email for suggestion)

Intended Audience

The intended audience are managers, developers, sys admins who want to learn more about federated identity and access management, and don’t mind getting their hands dirty (if you register on 2nd day). This workshop is designed for novice and advanced users who'd want to know much more about AAF Shibboleth.

Locations and Dates

Details of exact location will be posted in a couple of weeks time. Please contact Bruc if you can help out in hosting the venue for the workshop.

When	Where	Location
Oct 13-14	Sydney	MQ Univ
Oct 16-17	Canberra	TBA
Oct 20-21	QLD	TBA
Oct 27-28	Perth	TBA
Nov 3-4	South Australia	UniSA
Nov 13-14	Melbourne	TBA

How to participate

Limited spaces available, register early. Please indicate which day(s) you're interested in attending and if you are attending on 2nd day, please indicate the session(s). Send email to Bruc Liong at bliong@melcoe.mq.edu.au.
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