There are many ways to search in SharePoint but within the product there is one site template that is called the Search Centre. This site gives you the ability to search anywhere in your environment including other locations that we have configured in the search crawler. When designing your SharePoint environment consider having a separate … Continue reading SharePoint Search for Education: Part 2 Search Centre
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
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
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
Having spent many years in schools there has always been a question that has been asked by a member of the teaching staff, ‘Can you get more than one person to open my Excel tracking sheet at the same time?’. Most schools will have Excel spread sheets that have information about pupil estimated grades, predicted … Continue reading Can you get more than one person to open my subject tracking sheet?
Install SharePoint Learning Kit to the Farm Download SharePoint Learning Kit from the codeplex website hosted here http://slk.codeplex.com. The current version for this blog post is SLK-SP2010-Beta2.zip. Extract all the files located in the downloaded zip to c:SLK. Open the SharePoint 2010 Management Shell In a later stage we will be running a pre-written PowerShell … Continue reading Walk Through: Install SLK 1.5 on SharePoint 2010
I got a tweet from @moodlenews asking why would I want the documents I have in Moodle stored in a SharePoint document library. Well it’s a very good question so I thought the fourth and final post on Integrating SharePoint and Moodle would be why we want to do this. Edit the File Once you … Continue reading Integrating SharePoint and Moodle: But Why….?
This blog post is part 1 of a series of 3 on how to integrate SharePoint and Moodle better. Part 1: How to part 1 Part 2: How to part 2 Part 3: Recommended Changes (this post) Checks You if now navigate to the Document Library we created earlier in Internet Explorer you will … Continue reading Integrating SharePoint and Moodle: Storing Moodle Docs in SharePoint: Part 3
This blog post is part 1 of a series of 3 on how to integrate SharePoint and Moodle better. Part 1: How to part 1 Part 2: How to part 2 (this post) Part 3: Recommended Changes Enable Feature For the Moodle OS to open a WebDAV enabled folder, the Desktop Experience Feature must be … Continue reading Integrating SharePoint and Moodle: Storing Moodle Docs in SharePoint: Part 2