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This is the reason why we developed something similar in house (Kazoo Dashboard) And it has far greater functionality such as displaying canteen menu's, departmental news etc.

A little repulsive if you ask me. Same situation here Maniac,

Agreed, No its costs £5,000 but that can be funded by the government! Lol.. That is where tax payers money goes. And then its between 1,200 - 2,400 per year! Thats crazy for a peice of software they charge companies to advertise on!

We have just seen the software... It is awful!

Exactly what I've been trying to say.. But colleges seem to still fall for the sales man rubbish!

If you don't mind me asking. What is the spec of the machines which locked up?

Wooo, I have just tried again after 6 months and got it working! If you are still stuck contact me via the web Welcome to KazooSoft Cheers

This all sounds too familiar. We have had a very similar phone call.. I think it is absolutely disgusting that they can get away with charging £5K + for a piece of software which took us less than 1 week to produce.... I will be more than happy to produce a dashboard which would serve many more functions that YB for half the money! Looks like no one consults IT.

It should be domain\username or username@domain We are having major problems binding from a Linux box in our DMZ to our DC

Which database are you using? Oracle? or MySql?

Yeah use the same user as apache, thats the user we use.

*Runs for the hills* Its very old. Clunky and as said is no longer supported from what i am aware

LOL 6 8 and 9 are defo good

Are you web servers in your DMZ? And did you manage to get SSO working whilst it is in the DMZ?

I should have said rtfm? hehe! here's a useful resource mate LDAP authentication - MoodleDocs

Figures

You may ask There are many great tutorials out there and the one moodle provides done the trick. To start with the first question would be how comfortable are you with AD administration. The work required is very simple but it may take a few minutes to get your head round. Basically, long story short you need to do the following: Get a CSV with your course codes, course titles using a tool i made which makes it easier to manipulate CSVDE you import it into your active direcory to create Groups in 2 locations. You have 1 OU for Students & 1 OU for Staff.. Example: domain.local Courses Students Staff In each of these OU's you will have exactly the same group, although using AD User & Computers wont let you make duplicate groups.. CSVDE will because it will use a random SID instead of the specified one in ADUAC.. Now, what we then do at the beginning of each year, or half way through the year when we import users is we add them to the groups which correspond to their groups. Many students are enrolled on multiple courses so when we do AD Bulk Imports they have large group memberships. The next stage is then to configure moodle to talk to your AD via LDAP. This can be done by going to: Site Administration -> Users -> Authentication -> Manage Authentication Under LDAP server you then need to configure all settings to your needs. It is very simple to follow. The bit that threw me to start with was the final stage under Data Mapping in the LDAP server settings. Make sure you have the following: First Name = givenName Surname = sn Email Address = mail You can add more if you have more entries in your AD. Below is a list of my example settings: Host URL = ldap://123.123.123.123 Version = 3 LDAP Encoding = utf-8 Hide Passwords = Yes Distinguished Name = [email protected] Password = Lol... Your password User Type = MS Active Directory Context = OU=Students,OU=Accounts,DC=domain,DC=local Search Subcontexts = Yes (Your Choice) Dereference Aliases = No User Attribute = sAMAccountName Member Attribute = blank Member Attributew uses dn = blank Object Class = blank Force Change Password = No Use Standard Change Password Range = Yes Password Format = Plain Text Password-Change URL = blank Expiration = No Expiration Warning = 10 Expiration Attribute = blank Grace Logins = No Grace Login Attribute = blank Create Users Externally = No Context For New Users = Blank Creators = No NTLM SSO we havent got working because of DMZ problems.. If you need more one to one support send me an email : [email protected] Cheers

Is your web server in a DMZ? We had issues doing SSO with our server in the DMZ

Yes, For the unenrollment of students it would be much better if you set up the "Unsubscribe users from courses after" setting in the admin area. Server -> cleanup This was dueing your summer holidays it will unenroll them from all of their courses. On the other hand if you wanted to delete them you could do this under: Users -> Accounts -> Bulk User Actions Then you could select all of the users and delete them.. We currently have ours set up via our Active Directory so all we need to do at the end of the year is delete all of the accounts from the AD and they no longer exist in moodle.