A month or two ago I thought about all the content there is currently available on the internet regarding Moodle 2.0 and Microsoft technologies. There this isn’t very much so I’ve spent the last month or two writing and writing and writing putting together an ebook together looking at 7 different areas. The book is … Continue reading eBook:Moodle 2.0 with Microsoft Technologies
One of my many passions is Microsoft technologies in the education sector. This is one of the reasons why I decided to start my own business in implementing them into schools. I love working in schools and guiding them in their implementations ensuring that they are getting a well managed network, implemented to best practice … Continue reading Who should know your Domain Administrator password at your School?
Microsoft and cScape have released a case study on the implementation of SharePoint 2010 at the City of London School for Girls. In a joint partnership between the school and cScape a strategic plan was put together to implement integration between the schools MIS (management information system) and SharePoint 2010 so information about pupils could … Continue reading SharePoint 2010 Case Study: City of London School for Girls (cScape)
There are several games consoles out now that use some kind of social networking to share scores, points and collaborate with other games. Personally I’m more of a XBOX kind of guy but I also have a PlayStation mainly because its a Blu-ray player as well as having BBC iPlayer, ITV Player and 4 on … Continue reading Embed into SharePoint: Part 2: PlayStation Network
Last week I wrote a post about using the content editor web part and embedding external content into your site. You can read the post here Embed YouTube and other code into SharePoint 2010. I thought I would be a good idea to show a few others examples of what you can embed. In the … Continue reading Embed into SharePoint: Part 1: SlideShare
I love to share my experience working in the education space and enjoy every moment of sharing technical information, bug fixes and concept ideas. I’ve been very honoured over the past 3 years to be awarded as a Microsoft SharePoint MVP and this year I have been awarded again. Thanks to all those who leave … Continue reading Awarded Microsoft SharePoint MVP 2011
Its been a busy day at Microsoft with Office 365 being released but they have also released Service Pack 1 for SharePoint 2010. Download them here… SharePoint Server 2010 SP1 SharePoint Foundation 2010 SP1 Note: Always test any updates including service packs in your test environment before implementing them in your live environment. Continue reading SharePoint 2010 Service Pack 1 now available.
The popularity of the ‘MVP chat’ has grown each time Microsoft have hosted the event online and this month won’t be any different when the doors are opened again for you to ask your technical questions. It doesn’t matter if they are IT pro, dev or questions around project management a SharePoint MVP will be … Continue reading Chat with SharePoint MVPs 22nd June 2011
When we create an Office 365 instance and we want to use our domain name for authentication and web services, we are asked to verify that we own the domain. When we have proved that we own the domain and we are ready to use Office 365 we then need to create a set of … Continue reading DNS Records in Office 365
Open up your Admin page for Office 365 and click on Manage under Lync. Select Domain Federation from the top menu. By default you will see that domain federation is disabled. Click on Edit. You will be given 3 options. The first is if you want open federation and allow any of your members of … Continue reading Allow external connection/federation of Lync in Office365