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
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
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
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
Last night on the 18th March the SharePoint User Group held their first meeting in Leicester round the Education market space. It was a great meeting with over 30 people attending asking many questions. Richard Willis also presented on SharePoint Learning Kit and the new features in the recent update to 1.4. You can … Continue reading SUGUK: 101 Question before Implementing SharePoint in Education
Just a quick post to let everyone know I will be talking about SharePoint in Education at the next Midlands SharePoint User Group on 18th March 2010. 101 Questions before Implementing SharePoint into Education Questions that can be asked both from a technical and end user adoption point of view. Have you got everything you … Continue reading Speaking at SharePoint User Group: Education
In Part 1 we looked at the new feature in SharePoint 2010 that allows you to place 2 SharePoint calendars on top of each other allow you to view them on the same calendar screen. Moving on from this we can now add our Exchange calendar as well. Continuing from the calendar we created … Continue reading Group Calendars in SharePoint 2010: Part 2: With Exchange 2010
One of the many requests I had in SharePoint 2007 was the ability to place SharePoint Calendars on top of each other like you can in Outlook 2007 saving you having to look at each and work out when the best time is for a meeting. SharePoint 2010 introduces the Group Calendars allowing you to … Continue reading Group Calendars in SharePoint 2010: Part 1