{"id":100,"date":"2016-02-19T10:55:00","date_gmt":"2016-02-19T10:55:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/integration\/?p=100"},"modified":"2016-02-24T14:11:23","modified_gmt":"2016-02-24T14:11:23","slug":"only-create-applications-groups-if-you-need-them","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/integration\/2016\/02\/19\/only-create-applications-groups-if-you-need-them\/","title":{"rendered":"Only create &#8216;Applications&#8217; groups if you need them"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Our fourth <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/integration\/2016\/02\/19\/principles-tips-and-good-practice-for-grouper-administrators-at-newcastle-university\/\">principle of Grouper good practice<\/a> is:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Only create &#8216;Applications&#8217; groups if you need them <\/strong>to be provisioned to AD or available as Shibboleth attributes.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>There are two reasons for this:<\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>The GrouperGroups section of the AD is already quite busy and cluttered, adding unnecessary groups will only make it worse.<\/li>\n<li>The Grouper to AD provisioning process is quite inefficient and can slow down if there are a large number of changes. Minimising the number of groups being provisioned to AD will avoid any unnecessary slowing down of the provisioning process.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Our fourth principle of Grouper good practice is: Only create &#8216;Applications&#8217; groups if you need them to be provisioned to AD or available as Shibboleth attributes. There are two reasons for this: The GrouperGroups section of the AD is already &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/integration\/2016\/02\/19\/only-create-applications-groups-if-you-need-them\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1062,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[13,12,4],"class_list":["post-100","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-group-management","tag-admin","tag-principles","tag-tips"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/integration\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/100","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/integration\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/integration\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/integration\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1062"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/integration\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=100"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/integration\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/100\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":131,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/integration\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/100\/revisions\/131"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/integration\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=100"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/integration\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=100"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/integration\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=100"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}