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June 26, 2012

First Step for migrating to Office 365 for education from Live@Edu

Microsoft have started sending information out to different school about their current tenancy and it’s migration to Office 365 for education. Here’s that information if you don’t receive the emails. Office 365 for education will provide free Exchange Online, SharePoint Online and Lync Online to students, faculty, and staff. Starting in summer 2012, Microsoft … Continue reading First Step for migrating to Office 365 for education from Live@Edu

June 19, 2012

Microsoft show off the Surface featuring Windows 8

Microsoft have announced and shown off their own hardware in the tablet/slate wars calling it the Surface. Available in two specifications and multiple colour keyboards, this is a device to keep your eye on as Microsoft release their next OS, Windows 8. No price has yet to be given for either specs but it is … Continue reading Microsoft show off the Surface featuring Windows 8

May 14, 2012

SharePoint Education Templates from Microsoft

Microsoft have released a set of SharePoint 2010 templates that you can use in your current SharePoint environment in your schools. The templates are free and can be downloaded from here. There are 2 main templates in the WSP Solution that you download from the Microsoft site. You can upload this as a sandbox solution … Continue reading SharePoint Education Templates from Microsoft

April 18, 2012

Slides from Australian and New Zealand SharePoint Conferences

During two weeks of March I was able to spend my time in Australia and New Zealand presenting at the SharePoint conferences in Melbourne and Auckland. I was able to give 2 presentations at both conferences talking about SharePoint in Education and also Office Web Applications. I would like to thank Debbie Ireland and the … Continue reading Slides from Australian and New Zealand SharePoint Conferences

April 18, 2012

Slides from CIUEN: Cloud in Education

I thought that I would share my slides from speaking at CIUEN yesterday in Lyon, France. I would also like to thank Microsoft France (and Ray Fleming for his recommendation) for this great opportunity. Continue reading Slides from CIUEN: Cloud in Education

March 14, 2012

Office 365 for education to be FREE!!

Yes you did read that right. Microsoft have announced today that Office 365 for education will be free. Since Office 365 for education was announced at the beginning of 2011 it has been well advertised that Exchange based email will remain free like email in live@edu but there would be an additional cost for any … Continue reading Office 365 for education to be FREE!!

March 8, 2012

Host Moodle 2 in Windows Azure

Over the past few weeks Microsoft have released the code to implement Moodle and Moodle 2 on Windows Azure saving you the cost of hardware, redundancy and data protection. Using Windows Azure to host the website and SQL Azure for the database you now have another reason to move to the cloud and keep saving … Continue reading Host Moodle 2 in Windows Azure

February 23, 2012

Get Site Template ID for Custom Site Templates

I have been spending a lot of time in Powershell over the last week and have learnt a lot about how this great tool can customise SharePoint 2010. As part of the project we have created a set of custom site templates and I had to create a new school with several custom site templates. … Continue reading Get Site Template ID for Custom Site Templates

January 27, 2012

How many ways can you use SharePoint in Education?

There are many ways to get SharePoint 2010 in your school, whether you’re using it as part of a package from a supplier, using a hosting company to host your own SharePoint or using your EES license to host your SharePoint internally. All of the successful SharePoint implementations I have seen are those that have … Continue reading How many ways can you use SharePoint in Education?