Current dreamspark program ...

[Rhys Smith]

From what I can tell, there’s actually two ways of getting to Dreamspark.

The first is for Dreamspark Premium, sold (usually? always?) via Kivuto. EntityID of their RP is https://e5.onthehub.com. SAML authentication to that works just fine.

The second is for Dreamspark Standard. Go to www.dreamspark.com and create an account. It asks you to verify your student status. For us, when I check several months ago this was set to do email verification (even though we used to do SAML authn to the old dreamspark entity). I had to get in touch with Microsoft (avesupp at microsoft.com) to ask them to switch us (back) to SAML authentication.

HTH…
Rhys.
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Cardiff University & Janet, the UK's research and education network

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On 29 Jul 2014, at 17:20, Ryan Suarez <ryan.suarez at sheridancollege.ca> wrote:

> I'm not sure.  But we signed up for the dreamspark subscription with Microsoft.  Microsoft then provides a subscription number which we provide to Kivuto to setup the webstore and access.
> 
> On 2014-07-18, at 5:13 PM, Steven Carmody wrote:
> 
>> So... Those who mentioned Kivuto in their response -- is your contract with Microsoft , or with Kivuto ?
>> 
>> Thanks
>> 
>> Sent from my iPad
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>> On Jul 18, 2014, at 4:42 PM, Ryan Suarez <ryan.suarez at sheridancollege.ca> wrote:
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>>> I'm not sure what details your looking for, can you be more specific?
>>> 
>>> We have dreamspark standard and premium on a single webstore.  We worked with Kivuto to configure shib.  The standard software is available to all students, faculty, and staff.  The premium software is only available to our STEM department.  We pass the isMemberOf attribute as outlined in that link, which Kivuto uses to determine eligibility.
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>>> On 2014-07-18, at 1:08 PM, David Bantz wrote:
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>>>> The link is to a generic product.  Can you provide any details about the integration with MS Dreamspark?
>>>> 
>>>> Like Steve Carmody, I noticed that the integration I set up and documented years ago no longer functioned, and just last month deleted Dreamspark from our list of services relying on our Shibboleth IdP.
>>>> 
>>>> David Bantz
>>>> 
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>>>> On Fri, 18 Jul 2014, at 07:47 , Ryan Suarez <ryan.suarez at sheridancollege.ca> wrote:
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>>>>> Yes, we still use Shibboleth to access dreamspark.  
>>>>> ftp://ftp.kivuto.com/support/outgoing/ELMS_Shibboleth_User_Verification_Customer_Implementation_Guide_en.pdf
>>>>> 
>>>>> On 2014-07-18, at 10:28 AM, Steven Carmody wrote:
>>>>> 
>>>>>> Hi,
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> I've gotten a question from the campus about access to the Microsoft dreamspark program. My last exposure to this program was years ago; back then, students used Shibboleth to access the service, and there were no charges. Apparently much of that has changed. Today, there are licensing charges.
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> My question -- is it still possible to use Shib to access dreamspark ? The current web site doesn't mention it, but I'm hoping I just missed that info ...
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> Thanks for any info you can share about current methods for accessing dreamspark.
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> Sent from my iPad
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