Yes you did read that right. Microsoft have announced today that Office 365 for education will be free. Since Office 365 for education was announced at the beginning of 2011 it has been well advertised that Exchange based email will remain free like email in live@edu but there would be an additional cost for any … Continue reading Office 365 for education to be FREE!!
Over the past few weeks Microsoft have released the code to implement Moodle and Moodle 2 on Windows Azure saving you the cost of hardware, redundancy and data protection. Using Windows Azure to host the website and SQL Azure for the database you now have another reason to move to the cloud and keep saving … Continue reading Host Moodle 2 in Windows Azure
I have been spending a lot of time in Powershell over the last week and have learnt a lot about how this great tool can customise SharePoint 2010. As part of the project we have created a set of custom site templates and I had to create a new school with several custom site templates. … Continue reading Get Site Template ID for Custom Site Templates
It’s been a life time ambition of mine to travel to another country and speak at a SharePoint conference and 2012 is the year. Next month I will be travelling to Australia to talk about Office Web Applications and SharePoint in Education. Once that has finished I plan to travel to Sydney for the weekend … Continue reading Speaking at Australia and New Zealand SharePoint Conferences
There are many ways to get SharePoint 2010 in your school, whether you’re using it as part of a package from a supplier, using a hosting company to host your own SharePoint or using your EES license to host your SharePoint internally. All of the successful SharePoint implementations I have seen are those that have … Continue reading How many ways can you use SharePoint in Education?
Over the past few months BFC Networks have been working hard to change the way SharePoint looks in the education space. By default SharePoint is very bland and doesn’t love much in its role to engage users. At BETT 2012 BFC Networks were proud to have Microsoft use the design on their stand to demonstrate … Continue reading SharePoint Branding for Education
Over the past 4 years I have been very privileged to be able to attend the BETT Show at the Olympia in London. Again this year I have been invited by the Microsoft team to join them on their stand to help talk about cloud technologies to schools and colleges who are looking for the … Continue reading Attending BETT 2012
I’ve had a lot of requests of this post recently and I was hoping to get another blog post about SPSUK out quicker than this but here is how to pull information that is stored in a document properties in SharePoint into your word document. I have a document library with loads of different columns … Continue reading Pull SharePoint 2010 document properties into Word (Quick Parts)
During the prize giving at SharePoint Saturday BFC Networks gave £250 towards a charity of choice to someone at the Conference. The winner was picked at random and they have selected Pratham UK who work to increase the accessibility and level of education in India. During the week since SharePoint Saturday we have been in … Continue reading BFC Networks Sponsors SharePoint Saturday UK and gives to Charity
On the 12th November see the 2nd SharePoint Saturday in the UK, this year hosted at Nottingham University. SharePoint Saturdays are a free to attend conference all about SharePoint where you can learn if you are developer, IT Pro, project manager or power user. Last year I talked about some high level IT Pro architecture … Continue reading New to SharePoint? Come to my session at #SPSUK