The ramblings of a computer geek
You want to change the size of the search box web part, this is fairly straight forward when you know how. 1. Firstly get the name/ID of the search box. Open your SharePoint front page, right click in the search box and select “inspect element”, then in the Developer box you should see the search […]
More...We have some Linux web servers that we use for Moodle they are setup behind a Barracuda Load Balancer that then distributes the load based on how busy each of the web servers are. Essentially the more busy the server the less clients it is given to process. The barracuda load balancer uses an SNMP […]
More...You get this error when opening a course, in this case we were using course 33. When entering the course, you get this error message: “Cannot find data record in database table course_module” http://moodle.domain/course/view.php?id=33 SOLUTION: Open MySQL Workbench on the server and then run this query: Then you should see the course record in the […]
More...You can do this with: Then in the commands.txt file you just put in the commands that you wish to run within the session. This has been tested on Linux.
More...We found that the metadata columns which use the term store, end up showing empty for all users apart from the Site Administrators. To fix this you need to grant privileges to the users in this list. To do this navigate to: http://intranet/Lists/TaxonomyHiddenList/AllItems.aspx Click on “List”->”List Settings” then click on “Permissions for this list.” Add […]
More...When setting up your APC Management card (this includes the ATS Devices) you need to configure the IAS policy as follows. I’m assuming you know the basics of configuring a RADIUS device this is specifically how to get administrative privileges for users logging into the Management card. Without these additional settings, the user will get […]
More...If you are seeing this when you start TomCat on a Shibboleth server you need to check your Shibboleth configuration as follows: Open relying-party.xml and change the maxvalidityinterval value within this section to: P46DT12H0M0.000S instead of: 4017600.
More...You may want to change the default behavour of the Lync client so that it appears to automatically start, so people know its there and want to use it. The other key thing is to automatically populate the username box on Lync so that users for the first time don’t need to know their name […]
More...I’ve been wrestling with a course restore problem on Moodle 2.4.2 and Moodle 2.5. Basically you can take a course backup fine, but when trying to restore it, it will timeout, and fail to restore the course at all or may only restore a small segment of it. Of course it fails, with no entries […]
More...I’m not a huge fan of Moodle, its basically a unsupportable mess. However the price: Free, is very appealing in the times of no money and so we are stuck with using it. One of the nice features is that of SSO using NTLM authentication. We use Microsoft Windows 2008 R2 with IIS 7.5 and […]
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