Microsoft have released a set of SharePoint 2010 templates that you can use in your current SharePoint environment in your schools. The templates are free and can be downloaded from here. There are 2 main templates in the WSP Solution that you download from the Microsoft site. You can upload this as a sandbox solution … Continue reading SharePoint Education Templates from Microsoft
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
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
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)
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
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
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
Last week I wrote a post about using the content editor web part and embedding external content into your site. You can read the post here Embed YouTube and other code into SharePoint 2010. I thought I would be a good idea to show a few others examples of what you can embed. In the … Continue reading Embed into SharePoint: Part 1: SlideShare