The ramblings of a computer geek
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...Although IPv6 is still fairly unused in the enterprise or home, it is beginning to gain traction, so I thought I should begin to learn about it. These articles there will be a few will chart my investigations into setting up IPv6, starting in this part with two workstations on the same network segment and […]
More...This assumes you have a APC Smart-UPS UPS with a Network Management Card, that you have already configured to allow SNMP connections and you’ve configured the community string. This is tested using MRTG running on Ubuntu with an AP9619 network management card in the UPSes. This took ages to find the correct metrics OIDs from […]
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...An odd one, you need to configure SQL Reporting Services first with the correct FROM: email address, email server and port. Once you have done that you won’t get the error message about reporting services not be configured, however you are likely then to get this error. DPM 2010 Administrator Console->Management->Options->Notifications Entering a valid email […]
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 […]
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