Some of the great tools that have come out of Microsoft include the ability to have your environment running in a highly available farm. These can be achieved with hardware and software and Microsoft provide these functions using Load Balancing or services and clustering. In chapter 2 of the ebook we look at why you … Continue reading Chapter 2: Implementing Moodle 2.0 on Microsoft Load Balancing Technologies
One of my most popular blogs is Adding a Banner to your SharePoint but is for SharePoint 2007. Here is how to do it for SharePoint 2010. Banner Image You need to create a banner at the top of the page. The image by default is replicated so I have created a large wide image … Continue reading Add a banner to SharePoint 2010
BFC Networks are very proud to announce that of the 2011/12 season that they sponsored Birmingham Citadel FC with an away kit for their use during their league games throughout the coming seasons. About Birmingham Citadel FC Birmingham Citadel FC was founded just before the millennium by members of the Birmingham Citadel Salvation Army church … Continue reading BFC Networks sponsor Birmingham Citadel FC
Chapter 1 of the Moodle 2.0 in Microsoft Technologies book discusses why you might want to consider using Microsoft technologies instead of Linux, Apache and MySQL. Further into this chapter you are guided through the implementation of installing Moodle 2.0 on Windows Server 2008 R2 using PHP for Windows, IIS and SQL Server Express Edition. … Continue reading Chapter 1: Install Moodle 2.0 on Windows Server 2008 R2, SQL Server Express and IIS
Over the course of the summer, Alex Pearce the Managing Director of BFC Networks has been writing a downloadable eBook based on Moodle 2.0 with Microsoft technologies. This book has specially been designed and written for technical staff who are looking at using Moodle 2.0 and wish to implement and integrate the website with Microsoft … Continue reading BFC Networks release first eBook on Moodle 2.0
I’ve spent a bit of time over the years and before writing this blog post about what would be right naming scheme for a small set of servers at your school. Generally in medium and larger organisation you would have a single server doing a few smaller tasks and some servers just running a single … Continue reading Server naming scheme for your school
In the last two blog posts in this series we looked at bad uses of the domain administrator username and how some schools I’ve come across have implemented a whole networking with the domain administrator. This is a big issue and by changing the password of that user it can bring down the school network. … Continue reading Example of Active Directory Service Account Naming Scheme For Schools
In my previous blog post we discussed the use of the domain administrator user at schools and how this username and password is known by so many people within the team and can cause security risks. I feel like schools need to have this cultural changes from using the user as any other user and … Continue reading Don’t use the domain administrator to install software or you’ll have trouble…
A month or two ago I thought about all the content there is currently available on the internet regarding Moodle 2.0 and Microsoft technologies. There this isn’t very much so I’ve spent the last month or two writing and writing and writing putting together an ebook together looking at 7 different areas. The book is … Continue reading eBook:Moodle 2.0 with Microsoft Technologies
I’ve been shocked by the scenes up and down the UK in the last few days with the riots at the work of alleged youths as young as 11. I’m currently writing a whitepapers on ‘IT Continuity for Schools’ which I hope to release next month which discusses the impact of a scenario where a … Continue reading School network plans in an event of riot/looting and full lose of school network