Windows Server Archives - Blog: Alex Pearce (Microsoft MVP)

September 12, 2011

Chapter 1: Install Moodle 2.0 on Windows Server 2008 R2, SQL Server Express and IIS

Chapter 1 of the Moodle 2.0 in Microsoft Technologies book discusses why you might want to consider using Microsoft technologies instead of Linux, Apache and MySQL. Further into this chapter you are guided through the implementation of installing Moodle 2.0 on Windows Server 2008 R2 using PHP for Windows, IIS and SQL Server Express Edition. … Continue reading Chapter 1: Install Moodle 2.0 on Windows Server 2008 R2, SQL Server Express and IIS

August 3, 2011

Who should know your Domain Administrator password at your School?

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?

March 7, 2011

Install Moodle 2 on Microsoft SQL Server, Windows Server 2008 R2 and IIS

Over the past year I have write a few how to whitepapers on implementing the open source product Moodle onto Microsoft Technologies. In recent months Moodle 2 has been released and a new whitepapers is now available on how to install the product on: Windows Server 2008 R2 Microsoft SQL Server 2008 R2 IIS 7.5 … Continue reading Install Moodle 2 on Microsoft SQL Server, Windows Server 2008 R2 and IIS

June 15, 2010

Implementing Moodle 1.9 on a Microsoft Highly Available Environment

In this whitepaper you will be instructed on how to install a Microsoft SQL Server 2008 R2 Cluster, 2 Web Front End Servers running Moodle 1.9 which are network load balanced and the configuration to run Moodle from a remote storage area. Following the 2 other whitepapers released back in April, I have written another … Continue reading Implementing Moodle 1.9 on a Microsoft Highly Available Environment

April 12, 2010

Installing Moodle on Windows Server 2008 R2 x64, SQL, IIS

Its been a few weeks since I released my first whitepaper on how to implement Moodle on Windows Server 2008 x86, SQL Server 2008 and IIS 7.0 (click here to download and click here to view blog post) and I have very pleased with the number of downloads it has already. Today I’m releasing my … Continue reading Installing Moodle on Windows Server 2008 R2 x64, SQL, IIS

March 29, 2010

Installing Moodle on Windows Server, SQL, IIS

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

February 20, 2008

Windows Server 2008 TSApps WebPart for SharePoint

Was looking through a few web pages and came across a document that will show you how to get the terminal server apps webpart for Windows 2008 into your SharePoint environment. Problem is you have to have SharePoint on the same server as your TSapps on your Windows 2008 box. Can't wait for someone to … Continue reading Windows Server 2008 TSApps WebPart for SharePoint

December 19, 2007

Introduction to the Microsoft Learning Gateway

The Microsoft Learning Gateway (MLG) consists of many products from Microsoft from Windows Operating Systems to the Office System. SharePoint is a product that is required to make up the MLG but other products that can be added, these are not necessary to make up your MLG. What does Microsoft say on the Learning Gateway? … Continue reading Introduction to the Microsoft Learning Gateway