Microsoft are giving away software to students for free. This is great! I'm so please that they have decided to set up a scheme that allows this. Microsoft Dream Spark gives students access to Microsoft Windows Server, Visual Studio, Expressions Studio and XNA to help them become either IT Pros or Developers. Your local authority … Continue reading Free Microsoft Software for Students
A few months ago I posted a PDF of what a school in Christchurch, UK had done with SharePoint which included making their own webparts. I met up with the guys from Twynham and it was a great meeting which also include the representatives from Shirelands. I had a email from Dave at Twynham the … Continue reading SharePoint at Twynham School
I’ve been playing around a lot with Silverlight 2 recently, I’m find it a lot easier to code than version 1. In many of the schools I have been to, they have had a proxy server for all their internet traffic. I created a bat script that wrote to the registry and asked the user … Continue reading Silverlight 2 Application to enable/disable your proxy server in IE
Microsoft Education UK are running a vendor days on the 21st May in Reading. It should be a really good day as they have arranged for 23 different companies to come and talk about their SharePoint solutions including companies such as RM, ITWorx, LP+ and Nisai Academy. Some of these including fully hosting products, in … Continue reading SharePoint Educational Vendor Day: 21st May
Back at Christmas I showed what SharePoint looked like on a Apple IPhone/ITouch. The other night I was babysitting my god daughter and after she had gone to bed I turned on the Nintendo Wii to play a bit of Mario Kart but when I turned it on I noticed it had the internet connection. … Continue reading SharePoint on a Nintendo Wii
I’ve sent a lot of people information about SharePoint and Microsoft Learning Gateway so thought it was time to put it all together in a single post. It would be great if you could add more links to resources. SharePoint 2007 Microsoft SharePoint Site http://office.microsoft.com/sharepoint SharePoint User Group UK http://www.suguk.org SharePoint User Group UK: … Continue reading SharePoint and Microsoft Learning Gateway Links/Resources
I received a thank you present this week for some work I did for a school and my contact there gave me a SharePoint Mug! How cool is this!!! It has the 6 pillars of SharePoint and also says…" People Tell Me That I Am The SharePoint King" Thanks Greg…stay in touch… Continue reading SharePoint Mug…
I’ve seen a few requests recently for the SLK install documents to be updated to show how to install SharePoint Learning Kit onto a single server environment. This is something that I encounter a lot with my installs so thought it was time to do a post about it. When you install MOSS or WSS3 … Continue reading SharePoint Learning Kit: Installing on Single Server Farm
I’ve been in many forums and discussions about how Microsoft’s new file format is unfair on the education industry. More than ever, more users are accessing electronic documents from schools not just staff and pupils but parents, local community and businesses. I believe that its all a load of rubbish (trash), the fact that people … Continue reading Document Conversion: Turn your DOCX to a HTML page
Came across this document on the internet the other day and wanted to share it with you. Its a must read if you are anything in sharepoint! Topics include: What’s New Test drive software and labs MAV and Browser Support Development and Integation Wed parts: Instructional and Docial Networking Business Intelligence (SAP Integration) SQL Server … Continue reading SharePoint Document: Resources from Microsoft Education: SharePoint (including mac browser support)