Nick,

If you have registered with the UK Federation and you want to access
DreamSpark using AthensIM, then you should select your own institution
from the WAYF, not 'Eduserv Athens'. You should only choose 'Eduserv
Athens' if you are using AthensDA or you use classic Athens accounts (ie
created through the Administration interface or bulk upload).

Neil

Neil Drage
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-----Original Message-----
From: Discussion list for Shibboleth developments
[mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of Nick Howes
Sent: 20 February 2008 12:22
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Subject: LA (Re: LA (Re: Another good reason to deploy an Idp))

Neil Drage wrote:
> Colin asked "what about all the students in sites that have not yet
> implemented an IdP?". For universities and colleges that haven't
> implemented Shib IdPs you can carry on using OpenAthens to access this
> service. OpenAthens is a member of the UK Federation and so it does
> allow users to log into DreamSpark, and users doing this are
identified
> as students. 
>
> We worked closely with Microsoft last year on this project to ensure
> that OpenAthens users were able to use DreamSpark.
Thanks for your response Neil. Does the above suggest that we should be 
able to authenticate now using our AthensIM service (part of OpenAthens 
as I understand it). I did try using the "Eduserv Athens" entry in 
Dreamspark's WAYF, but got the Athens error "Your home organisation does

not use the Athens to Shibboleth gateway to access this service. Please 
contact the service provider or home organisation for assistance." 
Should this work or have I misunderstood?

We're working on getting a working Shib 1.3 (or 2.0) instance IdP going 
for UK Federation membership, but it isn't ready for use yet. It would 
be good if we could give students access now.

Nigel: It isn't looking like Shib 2.0 is going to be ready before July, 
which is when we were planning to have an IdP ready by. Personally I 
think we'll stick with 1.3 for our first release, and then have a lovely

time converting all the configuration when 2 comes out.

Nick