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
While creating a site column which uses metadata you may come across the error ‘The default termstore for this site cannot be identified’. To solve this issue open Central Admin and go to the Manager Service Applications. In the list search for your Managed Metadata Service. Select the Managed Metadata Service Connection and click on … Continue reading The default termstore for this site cannot be identified
I’ve created a simple calculator in Excel for you to work out how much Office 365 for Education will cost you. As there are different versions known as Academic 1, Academic 2 etc by simply putting in your number of staff and students you will be able to see how much each of these cost … Continue reading How much does Office 365 Education cost?
Microsoft have just announced the different feature levels and costs for Office 365 for Education. Office 365 for Education is based around the Office365 Enterprise but has different levels of features allowing you to pick and pay for what you a looking for. You can still get some features for free or students still get … Continue reading Office 365 for Education Features and Costs
During this week I’ll be at the BETT Show in London. This year I am on the Microsoft stand again and thank Microsoft for allowing me to be on the stand answering your questions. Come say hello and say make yourself known. If you don’t know anything about BETT visit the website at http://www.bettshow.com and … Continue reading At #BETT2011 Show
Are you like Mr Jones? Spending most of the day teaching all the kids about Shakespeare or about the Universe and have no time to get all the information you need to organise that school field trip or check your email. Or are you like Mrs Lloyd who has to move around from room to … Continue reading What is a Learning Platform? Short Story
If you are a school and have implemented SharePoint 2010, Microsoft want to hear from you. They are currently giving away a free ticket to the next SharePoint Conference in Los Angles in October 2011. All you have to do is tell your Journey of SharePoint 2010 and how you have implemented it into your … Continue reading Tell your SharePoint 2010 story and win – SharePoint Journeys
In this blog post we are going to brand our live@edu Outlook Live Web Access. By default you get the standard yellow theme which is a collection of 3 images and some colouring. This can all be changed within the domain management which you can access with your admin user for live@edu. Note: Any changes … Continue reading Live@edu Branding
SharePoint is being used more and more in education with schools implementing the product but one of the common things I see it that schools don’t use the full capability of the product. I’ve had many conversation about SharePoint and that there aren’t many people out there that know everything about the product. With there … Continue reading Using SharePoint Search in Education and Schools: Part 1
I was recently at a school and we had a bit of difficulty in trying to get the finance board/governors to approve the new £120,000 ($150,000) wireless network. The wireless is N standard and designed to allow over 2,000 devices to use it at the same time. The network back bone was already CAT6 so … Continue reading Selling it to the Senior Leadership at your School…..