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Chat with SharePoint MVPs Today

Every few months the Microsoft SharePoint team arrange a online chat for you to ask questions to SharePoint MVPs. Well, today is no exception. Come and ask any kind of question you have about SharePoint 2007 or 2010, a technical issue you...

Published 07-21-2010 1:30 AM by Alex Pearce

Learning Gateway Conference: Tomorrow

Tomorrow sees the second Learning Gateway Conference that both Richard Willis and I are very proud to bring to you. We have a very exciting day of speakers and sessions lined up and we hope you enjoy the day. The twitter hash tag for the day is #LGCUK10...

Published 07-13-2010 2:34 AM by Alex Pearce

Filed under: LGCUK10, Learning Gateway

SharePoint 2010: Forefront Identity Service not Started

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...

Published 07-06-2010 1:53 PM by Alex Pearce

Filed under: SP2010

Moodle Webparts for SharePoint 2007

As a school we have decided to evaluate Moodle for a VLE for our school. The main reasons we have done this is because of the course builder with built in quizs and SCORM builders. I have to say they are very well built. They are not page...

Published 06-30-2010 9:28 AM by Alex Pearce

Filed under: sharepoint, Moodle

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...

Published 06-15-2010 10:29 AM by Alex Pearce

Filed under: Windows Server, SQL, Moodle, Clustering, High Availablity

Changes to WhitePaper: Moodle x64 PHP download

Since I publish the whitepapers on how to install Moodle on a Windows environment, to date (6th June 2010) they have been downloaded over 850 times. I certainly hope you have found they very useful. Over the next week I’ll be publish a 3rd Moodle...

Published 06-06-2010 6:51 AM by Alex Pearce

Filed under: Moodle

Learning Gateway Conference 2010, 14th July, London

We are happy to announce that the Learning Gateway Conference is back and we are now taking bookings. This year we are travelling south and holding the conference in London on the 14th July at Church House around the corner from Westminster Abbey. The...

Published 05-14-2010 3:52 AM by Alex Pearce

Learning PowerShell: Part 2

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...

Published 04-28-2010 12:16 PM by Alex Pearce

Filed under: PowerShell

SharePoint 2010 Evolution Conference: Slides #SPEvo

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...

Published 04-27-2010 2:30 AM by Alex Pearce

Learning PowerShell: Part 1

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...

Published 04-27-2010 2:09 AM by Alex Pearce

Filed under: PowerShell

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...

Published 04-12-2010 8:01 AM by Alex Pearce

Filed under: Windows Server, SQL, Moodle

Moodle and SharePoint better together: Store your course material in SharePoint

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. ...

Published 04-07-2010 1:27 AM by Alex Pearce

Filed under: sharepoint, live@edu, Moodle, edulabs

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...

Published 03-29-2010 1:53 AM by Alex Pearce

Filed under: Windows Server, SQL, Moodle

SharePoint 2010: Where do my User Profile Photos Go?

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...

Published 03-25-2010 8:40 AM by Alex Pearce

Filed under: SP2010

SharePoint 2010 for Education: Part 3, Wiki’s

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...

Published 03-22-2010 2:44 PM by Alex Pearce

Filed under: sharepoint, sharepoint2010, SP2010

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