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
If you are hoping to come to SharePoint Saturday UK this year it’s being hosted at Nottingham University on the 12th November. http://www.sharepointsaturday.org/uk/default.aspx If you are attending, hosting or even one of the speakers you may want to add the SPSUK badge to your blog or email signature. I hope you find them useful. See … Continue reading SharePoint Saturday UK 2011 Badges
One of my many passions is Microsoft technologies in the education sector. This is one of the reasons why I decided to start my own business in implementing them into schools. I love working in schools and guiding them in their implementations ensuring that they are getting a well managed network, implemented to best practice … Continue reading Who should know your Domain Administrator password at your School?
Microsoft and cScape have released a case study on the implementation of SharePoint 2010 at the City of London School for Girls. In a joint partnership between the school and cScape a strategic plan was put together to implement integration between the schools MIS (management information system) and SharePoint 2010 so information about pupils could … Continue reading SharePoint 2010 Case Study: City of London School for Girls (cScape)
There are several games consoles out now that use some kind of social networking to share scores, points and collaborate with other games. Personally I’m more of a XBOX kind of guy but I also have a PlayStation mainly because its a Blu-ray player as well as having BBC iPlayer, ITV Player and 4 on … Continue reading Embed into SharePoint: Part 2: PlayStation Network