I agree with the suggestions to date. Also if you have the community
system you need to take special care or you'll lose all the portal (tab
and module) customisations that had been set - a good way to annoy your
users.
Also watch for things like portfolios if you have the content system -
we lost ours on one hardware migration - but luckily on 2 users
complained (we largely use Learning Objects Campus Pack for this).
Good luck,
Malcolm.
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Dr Malcolm Murray
Learning Technologies Team Leader - IT Service
Honorary Fellow - School of Education
Durham University
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Peter
Sent: 04 March 2011 13:48
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Subject: Re: Upgradingh to blackboard 9.1 - question re user accounts
One thing to remember is that when you do a fresh install you create a
new database; hence almost everything will get new PKI values and values
such as the ~internal~ course ID. This should not matter in most cases
but sometimes it can eg Turnitin used to use the value (I believe they
do not now) so links to assignments/users etc broke. Hard coded cross
course links broke.
Some of these are minor, but some were not, and I still get cold sweats
thinking about the consequences:-(
The user enrolment worked fine for people with course roles. They were
created as part of the process when the archive was restored if they did
not already exist.
Peter
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(Dr.)
Sent: 04 March 2011 11:40
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Subject: Re: [BLACKBOARD-USERGROUP] Upgradingh to blackboard 9.1 -
question re user accounts
My impression is all user accounts in archived sites will be created
when it is restored. However if an account has no course enrolment, then
it will be missed in your new system.
Jie
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Sent: Friday, March 04, 2011 11:23 AM
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Subject: Upgradingh to blackboard 9.1 - question re user accounts
We're starting to think about upgrading from bb8 to bb 9.
I'm tempted by the idea of installing to new hardware and so considering
the archive / restore option (assuming of course the reported issues
over the restoration will have been resolved in time.)
What advice is there with respect to bringing across user accounts?
Obviously snapshot, but what about if you're not using Snapshot?
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