With in the next 2 weeks Microsoft are hosting a online conference. I’ve personally not attended a online conference yet but I guess we all have to start somewhere. There’s a good agenda for the day which includes Windows 7, Windows 2008 R2 and OCS 2007 R2. Viral who is someone I have got to … Continue reading TechNet Virtual Conference – 19th June
Thanks to everyone who attended the EduGeek Conference last week. Edugeek Conference 28th May 2009 View more presentations from pearce.alex. I had a great time standing up and presenting to you and hope to do it again soon. I’ve uploaded my slides here on SlideShare and feel free to email me with any questions. The … Continue reading Slides from Edugeek Conference 2009
Tomorrow I'm speaking at the Edugeek Conference in the UK. I've put together a new presentation called `SharePoint Governance for Education' and hope this can be a great start to anyone who is looking at implementing SharePoint at their school. Maybe by listening to my presentation you will find that you have missed something in … Continue reading EduGeek Conference – 28th May
Over the past few months I’ve been working on building a new user group. The Learning Gateway User Group is a new community site for education schools/organisations to blog about what they are doing, share their experiences in the class room and their technical knowledge with the Microsoft Learning Gateway. Of course it’s not all … Continue reading Announcing the 'Learning Gateway User Group'
Just a quick post that there is a SharePoint User Group meeting tonight in Nottingham. If you want to come sign up at the link below and hope to see you there at 6.30. http://suguk.org/forums/thread/18475.aspx Continue reading SharePoint User Group UK tonight in Nottingham
So last week I was at the first European SharePoint Best Practise Conference in London. I made a few notes while I was there so I thought it was defiantly worth a post for you all. Have the ratio of 5 Web Front Ends per 1 SQL Server If you have user who use SharePoint … Continue reading My Notes from the SharePoint Best Practise Conference
Well tomorrow sees the start of the first (of hopefully many) European SharePoint Best Practise Conference and I feel very lucky not just to be there as an attendee but also as a presenter. I’m currently on my way down to London at the moment on the train and thought I would look at the agenda and … Continue reading My agenda for European SP Best Practise Conference SPBPUK
Back last year I did a post about how higher education students can get free software which included Windows Server 2008, Visual Studio 2008 and Expression Studio. I’m finding in my school there are more and more students who enjoy playing with software, finding out what it does and learning from it. Because of this … Continue reading Free Software…DreamSpark…Part 2
Well the news of SharePoint Designer become a free download has been on the rumour will for a few weeks now but its official and you can download it from the link below http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?displaylang=en&FamilyID=baa3ad86-bfc1-4bd4-9812-d9e710d44f42 Technorati Tags: SPD,SharePoint Continue reading Free Software…SharePoint Designer….Part 1
The other day I had a feed come though on my RSS and Twitter from Mike Gannotti’s blog talking about Microsoft Translator. This is a great new webpart/widget that you can add to your site which will change the text to one of 12 languages. I’ve thought for a while now whether we should … Continue reading Does Microsoft Translator answer the question for Languages and E2L