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		<title>Using SharePoint for Moodle file storage</title>
		<link>http://www.rscwmsystems.org.uk/rsc-it-blog/?p=304</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 19 Apr 2011 11:33:37 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Colleen Romero</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Document Management]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Moodle]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[By default, Moodle 1.x stores course files in a directory on the Moodle server.    Microsoft Education labs has published a white paper on configuring Moodle to use a SharePoint document library for file storage.   The advantage of this approach is that the recovery, versioning and rich search features of SharePoint can be applied to Moodle [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Managing Automatic Updates</title>
		<link>http://www.rscwmsystems.org.uk/rsc-it-blog/?p=294</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 22 Oct 2010 15:31:21 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Colleen Romero</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Freeware / Trialware]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Scripting]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[System Administration]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Windows]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Once I figured out how to automatically boot up our training room PC&#8217;s (see Wake-on-LAN post), the next challenge was to have the PC&#8217;s automatically download and install windows updates and then shut themselves down.  Although Windows Update can be configured to download and install updates automatically at a set time, users were still prompted [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Wake-on-LAN</title>
		<link>http://www.rscwmsystems.org.uk/rsc-it-blog/?p=280</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 06 Oct 2010 14:13:38 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Colleen Romero</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Freeware / Trialware]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Scripting]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[System Administration]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Windows]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Our training room is only used occasionally, and therefore its PCs are powered on only when they are needed.  The problem with this arrangement is that it can take ages for all the Windows and virus updates to deploy when the PC is powered on after being shutdown for a while.
One solution would be to [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Removing Users From Moodle Course Backup</title>
		<link>http://www.rscwmsystems.org.uk/rsc-it-blog/?p=272</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 27 Aug 2010 14:44:13 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Colleen Romero</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[LDAP]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Linux]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Moodle]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Scripting]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[I was trying to transfer a course from one of our Moodle sites to another, and I wanted to include user data, so I selected the option to include Course users in the backup.  However, during the restore, I got an error that a user in the backup file conflicts with an existing user.
The conflict [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Deploying Second Life via Group Policy</title>
		<link>http://www.rscwmsystems.org.uk/rsc-it-blog/?p=262</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 27 Aug 2010 13:48:23 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Colleen Romero</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Freeware / Trialware]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Group Policies]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[We run Second Life events in our training room, and I've found deploying the Second Life viewer in such an environment to be a hassle.  This is because the Second Life installer is only available as an EXE so it cannot be assigned via Group Policy.  To make things more complicated, the viewer checks whether [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Deploying Java Runtime Environment via Group Policy</title>
		<link>http://www.rscwmsystems.org.uk/rsc-it-blog/?p=253</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 24 Aug 2010 15:42:35 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Colleen Romero</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Freeware / Trialware]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Group Policies]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[The procedure for deploying the JRE via Group Policy is relatively straightforward.  The MSI is extracted from the offline installation executable, any necessary transformations are created, and the application is created in Group Policy.  This post is based on the instructions for deploying Java via Group Policy on the Java web-site (here). 
Software requirements

Java Runtime Environment [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Deploying Apple Products via Group Policy</title>
		<link>http://www.rscwmsystems.org.uk/rsc-it-blog/?p=238</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 16 Aug 2010 12:29:32 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Colleen Romero</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Freeware / Trialware]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Group Policies]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[System Administration]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Windows]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Wherever possible, I use Group Policy to assign applications to the PCs in our training room.  The challenge is when the application is not downloadable in MSI format.   Fortunately, workarounds exist for many applications, and I found some excellent instructions for deploying Apple iTunes and Apple QuickTime via Group Policy on the J R Technology blog, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Upgrading Moodle Editor</title>
		<link>http://www.rscwmsystems.org.uk/rsc-it-blog/?p=222</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 09 Aug 2010 11:24:29 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Colleen Romero</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Moodle]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[The Moodle 1.x default editor is HTMLAREA which  is no longer being maintained and does not work with newer browsers such as Safari or Chrome.  It also does not produce compliant HTML, e.g. it uses the FONT tag.
TinyMCE is a platform independent web based open-source HTML editor control that is used in popular content management [...]]]></description>
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		<title>ELGG + Active Directory Authentication</title>
		<link>http://www.rscwmsystems.org.uk/rsc-it-blog/?p=212</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 15 Jun 2010 09:49:40 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Colleen Romero</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Active Directory]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Authentication]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[LDAP]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Linux]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Single Sign-on]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[ELGG v1.6.1 comes with an LDAP authentication module.  To configure LDAP:

select Tool Administration from the Administration menu,
enable the ldap_auth module
click Settings
specify the URL and port of the LDAP server, bind user distinguished name etc.

Users who are successfully authenticated via LDAP can be configured to be automatically created within ELGG.  There is a "Reset Password" option, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Mahara + Active Directory Authentication</title>
		<link>http://www.rscwmsystems.org.uk/rsc-it-blog/?p=192</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 16 Apr 2010 16:09:24 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Colleen Romero</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[LDAP]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Scripting]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Single Sign-on]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Mahara v1.1.7 comes with an LDAP authentication module.  LDAP is configured by specifying the LDAP Host URL, the distinguished name and password of the bind user account in the Administer Authorities form.   LDAP passwords cannot be changed in Mahara, so the bind user only needs read access to the LDAP context.   Mahara supports two user [...]]]></description>
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