Over the past year I have write a few how to whitepapers on implementing the open source product Moodle onto Microsoft Technologies. In recent months Moodle 2 has been released and a new whitepapers is now available on how to install the product on: Windows Server 2008 R2 Microsoft SQL Server 2008 R2 IIS 7.5 … Continue reading Install Moodle 2 on Microsoft SQL Server, Windows Server 2008 R2 and IIS
SharePoint Search can do so much more than just search your SharePoint sites and one of the features with in SharePoint 2007 and 2010 is the ability to search a file share. Here is how to configure SharePoint to crawl a file server. In my environment I have 2 servers. A domain controller that is … Continue reading Configure SharePoint 2010 Search to crawl file servers
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
During the week of the BETT Show I was demonstrating Office 365 for Education to several schools, colleges and universities. Many questions were asked and I’ve tried to put these down in a list below. Q: Is there still a free offering of Office 365 for Education? A: Yes. If you only want the Exchange … Continue reading Frequently Asked Question for Office 365 for Education
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
I’ve created a simple calculator in Excel for you to work out how much Office 365 for Education will cost you. As there are different versions known as Academic 1, Academic 2 etc by simply putting in your number of staff and students you will be able to see how much each of these cost … Continue reading How much does Office 365 Education cost?
Microsoft have just announced the different feature levels and costs for Office 365 for Education. Office 365 for Education is based around the Office365 Enterprise but has different levels of features allowing you to pick and pay for what you a looking for. You can still get some features for free or students still get … Continue reading Office 365 for Education Features and Costs
During this week I’ll be at the BETT Show in London. This year I am on the Microsoft stand again and thank Microsoft for allowing me to be on the stand answering your questions. Come say hello and say make yourself known. If you don’t know anything about BETT visit the website at http://www.bettshow.com and … Continue reading At #BETT2011 Show