Over the past few months BFC Networks have been working hard to change the way SharePoint looks in the education space. By default SharePoint is very bland and doesn’t love much in its role to engage users. At BETT 2012 BFC Networks were proud to have Microsoft use the design on their stand to demonstrate … Continue reading SharePoint Branding for Education
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
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
Over the course of the summer, Alex Pearce the Managing Director of BFC Networks has been writing a downloadable eBook based on Moodle 2.0 with Microsoft technologies. This book has specially been designed and written for technical staff who are looking at using Moodle 2.0 and wish to implement and integrate the website with Microsoft … Continue reading BFC Networks release first eBook on Moodle 2.0
I’ve spent a bit of time over the years and before writing this blog post about what would be right naming scheme for a small set of servers at your school. Generally in medium and larger organisation you would have a single server doing a few smaller tasks and some servers just running a single … Continue reading Server naming scheme for your school
In the last two blog posts in this series we looked at bad uses of the domain administrator username and how some schools I’ve come across have implemented a whole networking with the domain administrator. This is a big issue and by changing the password of that user it can bring down the school network. … Continue reading Example of Active Directory Service Account Naming Scheme For Schools
In my previous blog post we discussed the use of the domain administrator user at schools and how this username and password is known by so many people within the team and can cause security risks. I feel like schools need to have this cultural changes from using the user as any other user and … Continue reading Don’t use the domain administrator to install software or you’ll have trouble…