University of Michigan Grouper Page

Slides from Modernizing IAM with Grouper and OKTA at Technology Exchange in Denver, December 2025

Slides from Grouper Chronicles:  Success with ABAC and Legacy Challenges, 2024

Slides from Wolverine Versus Grouper Presentation at Technology Exchange in Denver, December 2022

Grouper 2.5.5 Integration 

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Adobe Use Case

Automated provisioning for Adobe Creative Cloud and Spark U-M licenses. Adobe access policy groups use reference groups with current Institutional Role data which are provisioned daily to eDirectory. Grouper also allows for a 30 day grace period before people who have lost their entitlement to Adobe licensing are removed.

Virtual Sites Use Case

Automated provisioning for Virtual Sites, a tool that allows faculty, staff, and students to access a full Campus Computing Sites Windows desktop virtual desktop from any device. Virtual Sites access policy group is composed of up-to-date institutional role data and automatically synced to Active Directory daily. There is a 30 day grace period before people who have lost their entitlement to Virtual Sites are removed.

Grouper LDAP provisioner v2.5 use case Michigan (December 2020)

Check out these blogs and presentations:

• Slides from 2018 Technology Exchange on Opportunities and Challenges Implementing Grouper https://meetings.internet2.edu/media/medialibrary/2018/10/24/20181016-hoekenga-umich-yearwithtier.pdf

• Maslow's Hammer https://spaces.at.internet2.edu/x/qQYmBw

• Groveling before Grouper https://spaces.at.internet2.edu/x/_IVQB

• University of Michigan presented on their Grouper deployment at the Feb. 14, 2018 IAM Online webinar.  See the slides:  https://www.incommon.org/docs/iamonline/20180214_IAMOnline.pdf and recorded webinar: http://internet2.adobeconnect.com/p03kw4etow2t/
  
  

• March 2018 Update  U-M March Update (Grouper)

University of Michigan participated in the TIER Campus Success Program.