tomearnshaw

School ICT Technician Link to Academy Website

Full time. Monday to Thursday - 0800 to 1600. Friday - 0800 to 1530.

Snap, avalanche of emails from around 15:00 this afternoon, seems to have tailed off now...

@mdrabble So, this is how I have 'Authentication-ActiveDirectory' configured in Application Configuration under Application Management. domain.controllers IP address of one of our DCs port 389 username blank password blank basedn dc=blahblah,dc=private version 3 use.ssl False account.suffix @blahblah.private database.auth.when.ldap.user.not.found False attribute.mapping sn=sn,givenname=givenname,mail=mail,telephonenumber=telephonenumber,physicaldeliveryofficename=physicaldeliveryofficename,title=title required.groups blank sync.groups blank use.sso True

@mdrabble I'll have a look on Monday and post up the relevant config files that I changed for our environment. One gotcha is making sure that Apache LDAP is installed, that's got me in the past...

We get this occasionally and have done for years. We have three eportal servers, so staff just log on to another server. Restarting services tends to sort the issue out. We also reboot the servers every night and we tend to have less issues that way.

Makes a 'nice' change from power problems at Wakefield Council, guess they finally fired that cleaner...

From experience of previous downtime over bank holidays, it won't get looked at until the next working day after the bank holiday. So maybe service will be restored tomorrow? Can't wait for the deluge of emails once it's back up...

We are still on 2.3 and have just tried to install the online payments module. Even with x86 Java 7, it's not working as it should. Their solution is to migrate us rather then fix our existing version.

We use Tracmor, open source and very flexible. Previously had a WASP system that was crazy expensive and very inflexible. We bought asset labels and a Bluetooth barcode scanner from Amazon for £30. We have over 3000 assets in our system now...

We used to use MRBS but have now moved to Booked (https://www.bookedscheduler.com/whatsnew). Self hosted and AD integrated, works really well and actively being developed.

Check out this excellent article, worked a treat here - http://myworldofit.net/?p=1470

We are almost three years into a 5 year contract with RISO, I see no issue with the 8 machines we have lasting the term plus more. We could have done a 2, 3, 4 or 5 year agreement but obviously 5 made more financial sense. We have 7 ComColor 3010s and 1 7150, quality is fine for 98% of jobs and boy are they fast. Cost wise per page, they are unbeatable and support is on a 4 hour SLA. My mum is a business manager at a school and has had RISO machines for the best part of 15 years and is in fact the reason we got one on trial and then an agreement...

It's a real shame nothing has come of this thread. Was really looking forward to seeing what people had coded up...

I seem to remember having to change the setting in Bonjour's msi to ignore the language. Once that was done, it installed fine for Airserver.