UK Access Management Federation
for Education and Research
Welcome to the home of the UK federation, which provides a single solution to accessing online resources and services for education and research. Here is some information on how it works.
Eligible organisations are invited to join the current membership. Here are some benefits.
Upgrading from Shibboleth 1.3
The End Of Life date for Shibboleth 1.3 IdP and SP software was 30th June 2010. For information about making the move to Shibboleth 2 please refer to Registration or contact the UK federation helpdesk.
Latest news
New WAYF User Interface
Posted on Wednesday, 29 June 2011
This message is to give you advance warning about forthcoming changes to the user interface of the UK federation WAYF: read more...
New WAYF User Interface (technical details)
Posted on Wednesday, 29 June 2011
This announcement describes improvements to the UK federation's central discovery service (WAYF) which will take effect from 15-August-2011, and suggests additional information you may wish to add to the metadata for your entities in order to maximise the benefits that users will receive from these changes.