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eBook:Moodle 2.0 with Microsoft Technologies

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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 available in 3 different formats PDF, epub and mobile.

You can purchase the book from the BFC Networks Shop at £15.00 by clicking on the image below.

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http://www.bfcnetworks.com/products-page/moodle/ebook-moodle-2-with-microsoft-technologies/

  • Chapter 1: Install Moodle 2.0 on Windows Server, SQL Server Express, IIS and PHP
  • Chapter 2: Install Moodle 2.0 on 2 web front ends, SQL Server Cluster with IIS and PHP
  • Chapter 3: Configuring mail in Moodle 2.0 with Microsoft Exchange
  • Chapter 4: Configuring Moodle 2.0 authentication with Active Directory
  • Chapter 5: Configuring Active Directory Attributes for Moodle users
  • Chapter 6: Configuring Kerberos authentication for Moodle 2.0
  • Chapter 7: Configuring Single Sign On with Moodle 2.0

Can you view the content of the book by clicking here

Implementing Moodle 1.9 on a Microsoft Highly Available Environment

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In this whitepaper you will be instructed on how to install a Microsoft SQL Server 2008 R2 Cluster, 2 Web Front End Servers running Moodle 1.9 which are network load balanced and the configuration to run Moodle from a remote storage area.

Following the 2 other whitepapers released back in April, I have written another based on how to install Moodle 1.9 on a Microsoft High Available Environment using Microsoft Cluster and load balancing services.

Microsoft have a set of products that are designed to stay online for the maximum amount of time they can by either having a standby servers or sharing the load with another server.

Microsoft Clustering allows for 1 server to be running the services, in this case SQL Server 2008 R2 and have a server on standby ready to pick up those services.  The network load balancing role in Windows Server 2008 R2 allows for multiple servers to share the load of the website running on this set of servers.

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Click here to download the document

If you are interested in reading on how to implement Moodle on a single Windows Server you can find more whitepapers here.

Implementing Moodle 1.9 on Windows Server 2008 x86

Implementing Moodle 1.9 on Windows Server 2008 R2 x64

Installing Moodle on Windows Server, SQL, IIS

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Like me you might find implementing Moodle on a LAMP (Linux, Apache, MySQL and PHP) a little tricky and I personally want it on Windows Server, SQL Server and IIS.

A Windows System can scale differently to anything like MySQL and you can manage it in a high availability environment with Microsoft SQL Clustering and Mirroring.

Here is a whitepaper that I have put together on how to installing Moodle 1.9 on Windows Server 2008 x86, PHP5, SQL Server 2008 and IIS.

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In the near future I will be releasing a whitepaper on how to install Moodle on Windows Server 2008 R2 which is a x64 bit system.