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Moodle Https Warnings

2011/10/05 plagwitz Leave a comment

This now appears in every page I load in Moodle (in Internet-Explorer-8). I realize that client-wise this warning should not be suppressed globally. If this cannot be updated server-side, is it possible to blacklist individual websites?

Categories: e-learning, Glitches&Errors, websites Tags: https, webbrowsers

Skydrive@uncc.edu

2011/09/27 plagwitz Leave a comment

Ninermail’s live@edu implementation includes SkyDrive, Microsoft’s cloud document sharing and collaboration solution,
Log in with your UNCC credentials at http://skydrive.live.com:
OK, you may have to reset your password, then log in:

Categories: e-infrastructure, Glitches&Errors Tags: live@edu, MS-OneDrive

Protected: Exchange 2010 Resource Mailboxes: Running Log

2011/09/22 plagwitz Enter your password to view comments.

Categories: audience-is-language-learning-center-staff, e-infrastructure, Glitches&Errors Tags: 2007, 2010, 2011, calendaring, FAQs, live@edu, ms-exchange, outlook, outlook-live, resources, scheduling

Printing Problems in the LRC

2011/09/22 plagwitz Leave a comment

One problem

Printer printing garbage like this?
To fix it, try power-cycling the printer

Another problem

Received this error, repeatedly with students trying from different LC computers.
Until I told her to save the document (I thought she was authoring it), log out and log in on a different computer. Then miraculously she could print.
Now I am left wondering: Did she open the document, maybe from Moodle, in her web browser, and the MS-Word browser plugin is not set up to print too our printer. Would be not a solution, but a workaround for this situation.

Categories: audience-is-language-learning-center-temp-staff, e-infrastructure, Glitches&Errors Tags: FAQs, printing

Exchange 2010 Internet Calendars Publishing: 404 and Access level restricted

2011/09/21 plagwitz 1 comment

to access a calendar by its friendly URL (with mailbox name) and get error “404 – File or directory not found. The resource you are looking for might have been removed, had its name changed, or is temporarily unavailable”, like here:
Check your calendar publishing settings: They are likely set to “restricted”, as opposed to “public” which results in an obscure instead of memorable URL, like here:
Change the settings to “publish”and “save”, this will update the URLS, like here:

Categories: audience-is-IT-staff, Glitches&Errors Tags: 2010, ms-exchange

Adapting a Symantec Ghost 11 Dell Optiplex 760 imaging setup to 780 hardware using Boot Wizard Win-PE editor

2011/09/07 plagwitz Leave a comment

I have set up locally, and documented, a default installation of Symantec Ghost 11 (Ghost console version 11.5.1.2266) that can image a computer lab of dell OptiPlex 760 (not sure how I ended up with doing even this part).
Trying to set to implement use of our new live@edu communications infrastructure in this environment, I need to image a Dell OptiPlex 780 lab with this setup results in an error: “To Virtual Partition Drivers could not be found in the PreOS for the following devices:Manufacturer: "Intel", Description: "Intel(R) ICH10D/DO SATA AHCI Controller", PCI Vendor: 0x8086, PCI Device: 0x3a02, PCI Subsystem: 0x4201028”
The institution has not produced any documentation on this adaptation, so here goes: You can get a complete set of MS-Vista 32 drivers (which is the OS version that Ghost 11 Win-PE uses ) for Dell Optiplex 780 from Dell’s Driver CABs Homepage, including a table of contents.
You can expand this in Windows Explorer and look for the x86 storage driver, and you will find only one suitable: R222843, Matrix Storage Manager (OS Pre-Install Driver Only), A17, 8.8.0.1009
In Ghost console / tools / boot wizard, You can add this driver (entire dir, as long as it has a friendly name for ghost – could you have done this with the entire dell driver cab of 300mb?) to the win-pe-780 (I made a copy of the default win pee environment which I still need to use for a different set of hardware) (which then compiles the win-pe image), and
You also have to check the driver , to have it included (which compiles the win-pe image again – why? ).
You have to set in Ghost console menu; tools / options / the win-pe as the default remote boot os (this will have to be changed for 760 imaging back to win-pe).
Now, did this really “take”?
This allows the reception-captureimage task to complete.
Additional tasks reception-DeployImage and reception-Add to Domain&AD can be derived from the default installation.
We can also deploy and manage Deepfreeze now from the Ghost Console, bypassing Deepfreeze Console.
I hope this was my last trip down the “general computing” infrastructure Geisterbahn for a while. I was actually trying to apply productivity software infrastructure to a local business process, and merely to free up some time for elearning pedagogy…