Introduction

Lets start by saying that L****** and Microsoft Web Access just don't get along. The current working implementation has a few (major) problems:

• The solution uses pickup.response which is VERY insecure
• When using IE, MOWA Light Access Mode is activated (not good)
• When a user clicks on "Log out" from MOWA, it also kills their L****** session (IE only)

We managed to work around all three of these issues, and it is stable enough that I am ready to share it with you nice folks.

This week we at Clayton State have been adding channels in preparation for our Luminis installation to go live. While doing the same menial task over and over, it struck us that there has to be a better (and easier) way for other content administrators to add new and edit existing content. Sungard caringly provided a textarea for users to input data which we found completely inadequate, so we replaced it with the powerful TinyMCE editor.

Adding a system icon to Luminis

Overview

There are many small steps that need to be completed in order to have a new system icon display in Luminis. You will need the source package of the "edu.(your_university).icons" package, access to the cpadmin utility, and an instance of Banner INB open for modification, and the icons themselves.

The convention over configuration method of the class will enforce a consistant naming convention across the system. Choose your role name to be the same as your system name.

Create a CustomIcons.java file

=External Authentication System=

This is yet another TLA (Three Letter Acronym) for a component of the Luminis portal. You can use another LDAP server to let Luminis authenticate against. It will direct all requests to this server for verification of credentials instead of its own. Better yet, you can setup MULTIPLE EAS configurations, to allow for redundancy and fall through. This keeps Luminis specific users (cpadmin) inside of Luminis' LDAP and out of the campus LDAP.

We have successfully integrated in SSO (Single Sign on) with our new Exchange 2007 server. Doing this requires some modification to the examples provided by Sungard, as only Exchange 2003 is "officially" supported.