SharePoint Learning Kit is currently used in many industries but it has mainly been developed to be used in education sector. This E-Learning Tool can bring a different element of learning to pupils giving them access to their marks on work automatically having submitted it to the server. In this scenario whitepaper we will look … Continue reading SharePoint Learning Kit for SharePoint 2010
Thanks to all those who attended the SharePoint User Group in London last night. I know both Steve and I enjoyed sharing our knowledge with you.I’ve upload my slide deck and you can view them on slideshare or navigate through the slides below. Office 365 SUGUK March 2011 View more presentations from pearce.alex. Continue reading Office365 and SharePoint Online: SharePoint User Group UK
SharePoint Search can be used to search multiple different locations and one of these is internet sites. Before deciding whether to crawl an single internet site there are a few things to consider: How much content you want to crawler on that website? Do you want to crawl the whole website? The larger the website … Continue reading Configure SharePoint 2010 Search to crawl internet sites
With SharePoint 2007 and 2010 we can upload slides from our PowerPoint and upload and share them in a SharePoint Slide Library. Here’s how to do it. Create Slide Library Go to Site Actions and select More Options. From the list select Slide Library and click create. Give you slide library a name and click … Continue reading Upload PowerPoint slides into SharePoint 2010 Slide Library
Out of the box with SharePoint 2010 you can have 7 different style/views for you documents Default View Basic Table Document Details Newsletter Newsletter, No Lines Shaded Preview Pane Change your document view and style Navigate to your document library. Click on Library and click Modify View Navigate down the page until you see Style … Continue reading SharePoint 2010 Document Library Views and Styles
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
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
In the past week Microsoft have released news regarding their new BPOS (Business Productivity Online Services) which is their online services available to business which include Microsoft Exchange and SharePoint. Previously in the year Microsoft released the latest versions of their productivity suites such as Office 2010, Exchange 2010 and SharePoint 2010. These services are … Continue reading Office 365 and live@edu