University of Wollongong workshop – October In October, the Technical Engagement and Support Manager conducted a one day workshop to assist with the development of an Access Management and Single Sign-On (SSO) Strategy for University of Wollongong. The Workshop was also followed by a discussion with University of Wollongong researchers. Joint Universities Computing Centre (JUCC), Establishment of the Hong Kong Federation AAF was awarded the tender to supply professional services to JUCC for the establishment of the Hong Kong Federation. In addition to Hong Kong, the AAF technology stack is now deployed in New Zealand, Singapore, and Russia. COMPLETE Identity Provider (IdP) Upgrades In 2016 the AAF was engaged by Subscribers to complete a number of IdP upgrades from Shibboleth V2 to V3. IdP upgrades were completed for: ■ ■ Western Sydney University ■ ■ Edith Cowan University ■ ■ University of Newcastle. The AAF also developed an IdP V3 installer to assist organisations with completing this work themselves. COMPLETE COMPLETE PROFESSIONAL SERVICE ACTIVITIES ‘As a highly virtualised business, the partnership with AAF was a critical component of provisioning our entire eResearch ecosystem in the cloud. We are now looking into other AAF member benefits that will help us optimise collaboration and reduce operation costs for our business and CRC partners.’ Paul Reeve, Director of Operations, Cancer Therapeutics CRC ‘I’ve found the ansible build a very nice and clean way to handle the install – my thanks to those who put the work in.’ Derek Jones, Central Queensland University ‘I wanted to formally send thanks on behalf of ORCID for your contributions as a member of the ORCID Trust working group. Your feedback and input has been tremendously valuable as we crafted a program to provide greater transparency into the trust components that are foundational to ORCID principles.’ Terry Smith, ORCID Trust Working Group Member Laura Paglione, Director of Strategic Initiatives, ORCID 16