Over the past 4 years I have been very privileged to be able to attend the BETT Show at the Olympia in London. Again this year I have been invited by the Microsoft team to join them on their stand to help talk about cloud technologies to schools and colleges who are looking for the … Continue reading Attending BETT 2012
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
So far in our series of best practice implementation for your school network we have had a look at how to use the administrative accounts securely, service accounts, computer naming schemes and server naming schemes. Over the next few posts we are going to look into Active Directory, Exchange and then SQL Server and how … Continue reading How should your school be managing its Active Directory
During the first 6 chapters we have looked at implementing Moodle 2.0 with Microsoft technologies such as Windows Server, SQL Server and Active Directory but having implementing all of these we can increase the user experience by configuring single sign on. As Kerberos was implemented in chapter 6 which will allow securer authentication but now … Continue reading Chapter 7: Configuring Single Sign On in Moodle 2.0
Kerberos was developed by MIT in the 80s to help with network security in a large network and has been used since Windows Server 2000 to increase security for users logging onto their domain computer. By using this ticketing solution your authentication is securer than basic or NTLM keeping your Moodle users securer from network … Continue reading Chapter 6: Configuring Moodle 2.0 with Kerberos Authentication
Configuring Moodle with Active Directory can be very simple but it is important that it is also done to best practice with tight security. During chapter 4 we discuss how to connect Moodle to Active Directory with a dedicated user that you have created and given delegated rights to. This user only has permission to … Continue reading Chapter 4 & 5: Configuring Moodle 2.0 with Active Directory and LDAP Attributes
Moodle 2.0 like most applications has a email services that can email course updates and password resets but one of the ways you can register with Moodle for a course is using email authentication but this must be configured first. This involves a SMTP relay server which Moodle users to send any mail. You may … Continue reading Chapter 3: Configure Moodle 2.0 to use Microsoft Exchange
While on the theme of best practises for IT networks in schools I thought it would be a good idea to bring some thoughts around computer and laptop names after discussing server name schemes in a previous post. There are all sorts of different devices going into schools that connect to your wireless network ranging … Continue reading Computer Naming Scheme for your School
Some of the great tools that have come out of Microsoft include the ability to have your environment running in a highly available farm. These can be achieved with hardware and software and Microsoft provide these functions using Load Balancing or services and clustering. In chapter 2 of the ebook we look at why you … Continue reading Chapter 2: Implementing Moodle 2.0 on Microsoft Load Balancing Technologies