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We have Banner 8 running on a HP-UX 11.23 rx6600.  We have the brokers communication between it and the Luminis box (Sun).  We have many cases where a student won't get imported/built in Luminis because the email they have specified is the same as one or more other users.  If one of these entries is imported via "cptool import ims <filename>" then we get an error with the error and student ID.  This is fine.

Has anyone built a limited "development" luminis IV enviornment on a single desktop machine (including database) to support development of channelsand content (including sdk/cdk development)?  We would like to have a few development enviornments for our content and jav programmers and possibly build a vmware image to give to these users so they all have their own development enviornment.

Thanks

Ed Jacobs
Metro State

We don't hot desk here at the University of Huddersfield. Each day we, the hard working staff of a noble Yorkshire institution, sit down at our familiar desk and login to our PC and then, oh tedious!, we have to login to the portal as well, using exactly the same credentials that we just entered to login to the PC! Wow, big waste of time! So say staff, and most importantly, so say management.

Hi all

Is there any quick way to delete old linked files and content files in Target Announcements, Groups or Channels that no longer used by the system?  Thanks!

Alan

PCOM

We just had our first technical call with BlackBoard about the upgrade from CE8 to BlackBoard 9, which we are hoping to do later this year.  A couple of answers they gave as far is the Luminis integration raised some red flags.  I'm looking for any schools out there that have gone to BB 9, or are planning to in the near future.  My primary concerns are as follows:

- the built in Luminis/WebCt integration will no longer work, which we figured going in

I just wrote a post on my personal blog about how to implement an automated notification system for use with the “Group Request Queue”.

Here's a snippet of that post (click on the link at the bottom to read the full post.):

We have set up Google Apps for Education using SAML authentication to authenticate against Active Directory. We are using simpleSAML as our Identify Provider and it is installed on a separate server from Luminis. Both simpleSAML and Luminis authenticate against Active Directory, so the password should be the same in both systems.

Does anyone know how this group studio configman/ldap setting is used? Or where? Maybe when? 

grouptools.notificationservice.enabled

Thanks!

Carol
Seton Hall University

Looks like this conversation comes up once in a while. I'm hoping we can nail down a good setting.

This setting only limits the number of users that can be logging in at any given point in time.  Default is 15 which. 

What are other schools setting this at?  We are thinking of experimenting at 50, we've heard of schools going as high as 30. 

Please let me know what you've set the Maximum Concurrent Logins to and the results you've seen.

thank you.

I've been asked to ascertain what control we might have over how targeted announcements choose which of a person's multiple e-mail addresses to use.

Is there say, a hierarchy with maybe "preferred" trumping all others?

Where might I learn more?

Thanks much,

Dan