We are happy to announce that the Learning Gateway Conference is back and we are now taking bookings. This year we are travelling south and holding the conference in London on the 14th July at Church House around the corner from Westminster Abbey. The conference will have 3 tracks discussing ‘How to build the Learning … Continue reading Learning Gateway Conference 2010, 14th July, London
In my previous post I looked at some of the very basics of PowerShell but now its time to create some scripts. I’m always building new virtual machines on my laptop and I’m fed up having to add IP Address and how I have click so many times to add this and type in a … Continue reading Learning PowerShell: Part 2
Last week was great! I was at the SharePoint 2010 Evolution Conference in London hosted by Combined Knowledge. There were a few issues before the conference had even started with a slight volcano playing its part to stop many of the speakers getting into the UK. There were a lot of speakers who stood up, … Continue reading SharePoint 2010 Evolution Conference: Slides #SPEvo
I’ve been meaning to learn PowerShell for some time now as its an important of SharePoint 2010 and I thought I better get started. In SharePoint 2010 even if you wanted to try and avoid PowerShell you won’t be able to as this is the best way to patch your farm. Over the years I … Continue reading Learning PowerShell: Part 1
Its been a few weeks since I released my first whitepaper on how to implement Moodle on Windows Server 2008 x86, SQL Server 2008 and IIS 7.0 (click here to download and click here to view blog post) and I have very pleased with the number of downloads it has already. Today I’m releasing my … Continue reading Installing Moodle on Windows Server 2008 R2 x64, SQL, IIS
Microsoft have released a whitepaper this week on ‘Using Microsoft Office SharePoint Server (2007) as a File System for Moodle’ which shows you the steps to storing all the course material you upload via Moodle into a document library in SharePoint. The Microsoft Education Labs team who work out of the Seattle office are a … Continue reading Integrating Moodle and SharePoint: Using SharePoint as a File Store, Apache
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 … Continue reading Installing Moodle on Windows Server, SQL, IIS
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 … Continue reading Installing Moodle on Windows Server, SQL, IIS
I got an email the other day asking “where are the User Profile Pictures Stored?” All the photos are stored in a picture library in the root of the My Sites called User Photos. They are then stored in a folder called Profile Pictures. Navigate to your profile home page, delete default.aspx and type in … Continue reading SharePoint 2010: Where do my User Profile Photos Go?
We are still looking at some of the great feature in SharePoint 2010 that will enhance the education sector. Everywhere we go now in SharePoint 2010 we see wiki pages. If you create a new Team Site from the default site template list you will find the home page (home.aspx) is a wiki page and … Continue reading SharePoint 2010 for Education: Part 3, Wiki’s