Identity Management Release Notes

On Wednesday, March 20, 2024 the IAMIAM Identity and Access Management (IAM) is a set of policies, processes, and technologies designed to ensure that the right individuals (identities) have the right access to resources within an organization. IAM involves managing and securing digital identities, controlling access to systems and data, and maintaining the confidentiality, integrity, and availability of information. Team performed an emergency release for version 2024.1.3 of the uTexas Identity Manager (TIMTIM The uTexas Identity Manager (TIM) is the University’s identity manager. See uTexas Identity Manager (TIM) in the service catalog for more information.) which implemented the following change:

• Change the URLURL A Uniform Resource Locator (URL) is a reference to a web resource that specifies its location on a computer network and a mechanism for retrieving it. A typical URL could have the form http://www.example.com/index.html, which indicates a protocol (http), a host name (www.example.com), and a file name (index.html). Also sometimes referred to as a web address. for the Workday merge objection endpoint.

On Tuesday, February 27, 2024 the IAMIAM Identity and Access Management (IAM) is a set of policies, processes, and technologies designed to ensure that the right individuals (identities) have the right access to resources within an organization. IAM involves managing and securing digital identities, controlling access to systems and data, and maintaining the confidentiality, integrity, and availability of information. Team released version 2024.1.2 of the uTexas Identity Manager (TIMTIM The uTexas Identity Manager (TIM) is the University’s identity manager. See uTexas Identity Manager (TIM) in the service catalog for more information.) which implemented the following changes:

• Added Merge Objection APIAPI An Application Programming Interface (API) is a set of routines, protocols, and tools for building software applications. for Academic Information Systems (AISAIS Academic Information Systems (AIS) is the IT organization supporting CSUs under the Executive Vice President and Provost.) – Financial Aid.
• Improved PNA notifier retries.
• Configuration change to the Austin ADAD Active Directory (AD) is a directory service from Microsoft which implements Internet standard directory and naming protocols. See Austin Active Directory (Austin AD) in the service catalog for the University’s local implementation. domain manager.
• Minor bug fixes.

On Tuesday, January 9, 2024 the IAMIAM Identity and Access Management (IAM) is a set of policies, processes, and technologies designed to ensure that the right individuals (identities) have the right access to resources within an organization. IAM involves managing and securing digital identities, controlling access to systems and data, and maintaining the confidentiality, integrity, and availability of information. Team released version 2024.1.0 of the uTexas Identity Manager (TIMTIM The uTexas Identity Manager (TIM) is the University’s identity manager. See uTexas Identity Manager (TIM) in the service catalog for more information.) which implemented the following changes:

• Added EIDUT EID The University of Texas Electronic Identity (UT EID or EID) is the public records identifier for principals at the university. See our Concepts page for more information. affiliationAffiliation An affiliation is an attribute which reflects, at a high level, how an individual is related to the university. At any point in time, an individual may have no defined relationship, one defined relationship, or many defined relationships with the university. For example, and individual may be a current student, a future faculty member, a former employee, or all three. for Campers and other youth program participants.
• Added a workaround for a bug resulting from an edge case involving former UT System component institution employees.
• Implemented several fixes to the Non-Use Lock Sweep job.
• Updated Admin Tool’s EID EntitlementEntitlement An entitlement is an attribute which defines what an account is allowed or authorized to do. An EID holder may have many entitlements, each with a start and end date (end dates may be in perpetuity). management to support 4-digit years.
• Additional minor security and bug fixes.

On Tuesday, August 15, 2023 the IAMIAM Identity and Access Management (IAM) is a set of policies, processes, and technologies designed to ensure that the right individuals (identities) have the right access to resources within an organization. IAM involves managing and securing digital identities, controlling access to systems and data, and maintaining the confidentiality, integrity, and availability of information. Team released version 2023.2.1 of the uTexas Identity Manager (TIMTIM The uTexas Identity Manager (TIM) is the University’s identity manager. See uTexas Identity Manager (TIM) in the service catalog for more information.) which implemented the following changes:

• Fixed a site vulnerability in the TIM self help webapp