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Directory Services

The University’s central directory services aggregate data from multiple authoritative sources and serve as a central location for identity data.

A centralized directory service allows University departments to obtain all or most of the information they need about an individual from a single source, greatly reducing the complexity of their departmental applications.

uTexas Enterprise Directory (TEDTED The uTexas Enterprise Directory (TED) is the University’s enterprise directory. See uTexas Enterprise Directory (TED) in the service catalog for more information.)

TED is a private LDAPLDAP Lightweight Directory Access Protocol (LDAP) is a set of protocols for accessing information directories based on the standards contained within the X.500 standard, but is significantly simpler.-based directory service that contains identity information about students, faculty, staff, and University affiliates. The TED directory schema can be found on our TED Directory Schema page.

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For additional requests and support, please see the Directory Services knowledge articles in UT ServiceNow.

TED on the Mainframe (TOMTOM TED on the Mainframe (TOM) is a subset of the uTexas Enterprise Directory (TED) except on the UT Mainframe. It is a handful of files in an ADABAS database. It is populated by a uTexas Identity Manager (TIM) notifier and consumed exclusively by UT Mainframe applications.)

TOM is a mirror of TED data that is hosted on the mainframe to provide high-performance access to identity data via commonly-used Natural 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. lookup modules such as T3N$ELK, T3N$FEID, etc.

White Pages Service (WPSWPS The White Pages Service (WPS) is a directory back-end which supports the university’s web-based public directory.)

WPS is a semi-public directory service that contains public records information about current students, faculty, and staff.

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Service Availability Metrics

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 has set a Service Level Objective (SLO) of 99.237% availability for the uTexas Enterprise Directory (TED).

YearuTexas Enterprise Directory (TED)
2024 99.237%
2023 100.000%
2022 100.000%
2021 99.954%
2020 99.917%
2019 99.944%
2018 100.000%
2017 99.99%
2016 99.854%
2015 99.986%

For more data, please see our Metrics page.

Other Directory Services

The Austin Active Directory service is available to customers via our teammates in Enterprise Technology.

The University Offices page is managed by University Communications.

The UT Directory is a web-based front-end for TED, restricted to releasing only semi-public information, and is supported by our teammates in Enterprise Technology.

The UT System-wide Directory is managed by UT System. Our team provides UT Austin public records for inclusion in this directory.

Many UT Austin colleges, schools, units, departments, centers, initiatives, institutes, offices, and programs maintain their own directories.

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