I was making some changes to my User Profile Sync today and was finding that my changes weren’t taking place so I decided to check that my Active Directory connection in the User Profile Connections. For some reason it had disappeared so I decided to restart my server (its only a demo server on my … Continue reading SharePoint 2010: Forefront Identity Service not Started: MOSS MA
Its that time of year that I sit and wait to find out if I have been awarded for the last 12 months of activity in the SharePoint and education community. The time came and I was waiting for the email to come, and it didn’t, and it still didn’t arrive. So I checked my … Continue reading Awarded Microsoft SharePoint MVP again
Last week was great! I was at the SharePoint 2010 Evolution Conference in London hosted by Combined Knowledge. There were a few issues before the conference had even started with a slight volcano playing its part to stop many of the speakers getting into the UK. There were a lot of speakers who stood up, … Continue reading SharePoint 2010 Evolution Conference: Slides #SPEvo
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
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
After our first look at SharePoint 2010 and the uses of it for education I wanted to talk about the metadata structure that is available for schools to tag and share documents both within their school and other school as well. SharePoint 2010 has a tag structure that allows you to tag a single document … Continue reading SharePoint 2010 for Education: Part 2
Here is a first post of a set to talk about a few of the benefits of SharePoint 2010 for the education market. Last week I had the great opportunity to present on SharePoint 2010 at BETT 2010 which is the worlds largest education technology show in the world with over 24,000 people attending. Microsoft … Continue reading SharePoint 2010 for Education: Part 1
13th January was the first day of BETT (http://www.bettshow.com) and I’m here this year presenting on the uses of SharePoint 2010. You can come and listen to my demo of SharePoint 2010 at 11:05 and 14:45 each day. Over the next few blog posts I thought I would go through what we have looked at … Continue reading SharePoint 2010 @ #BETT2010
In January I have the great pleasure of speaking on the Microsoft stand about SharePoint 2010 at BETT 2010, 13th – 16th January 2010. Many of you have heard that Microsoft have released a public beta of SharePoint 2010 which you can download from here http://www.microsoft.com/2010/. During this 20 minute session you’ll be able … Continue reading Speaking at #BETT on SharePoint 2010