UK federation update December 2025

Posted on Wednesday, 3 December 2025

Service desk closure for Christmas break 2025-2026

As with most areas of Jisc, the UK federation service desk will be taking an extended break over Christmas and New Year. The helpdesk will be unavailable from 12:00 on Wednesday 24 December 2025, and will reopen at 09:00 on Monday 5 January 2026. If you submit a request to service@ukfederation.org.uk during this period, your email will be logged, but we won't be able to respond until we return.

Please note that any metadata changes need to be submitted by 18 December to be considered for publication; otherwise, they will be addressed from 5 January 2026 onwards.

UK federation metadata will be automatically re-published over the holiday period. While we won't make changes to UK federation-registered entities, there may be updates due to entities imported via eduGAIN.

Drop-in sessions

The UK federation is holding regular drop-in sessions between 12:00-13:00 on the first working Thursday of each month (excluding April):

4 December | 8 January | 5 February | 5 March | 7 May | 4 June | 2 July

The session in December will also include a look at WUGEN, the Wayfless URL generator tool, which should be of particular interest to libraries.

The sessions will be your chance to ask any technical, process or other federated access and authorisation questions you may have and we will do our best to answer them. We will also field more general identity management questions if we can.

Please contact Mark Williams to be added to the Drop-in session.

The meeting will be recorded for us to review any actions but will not be shared further.

Please feel free to send in any questions to the UK federation service desk at UK federation service desk for a direct answer or to be discussed in the upcoming sessions.

Edited by IainMacaulay ? on 08 December 2025, at 10:01 AM