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SUGUK: 101 Question before Implementing SharePoint in Education

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...

Published 03-19-2010 6:12 AM by Alex Pearce

Speaking at SharePoint User Group: 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...

Published 03-10-2010 2:24 PM by Alex Pearce

Filed under: sharepoint, SUGUK

Group Calendars in SharePoint 2010: Part 2: With Exchange 2010

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...

Published 03-08-2010 2:20 PM by Alex Pearce

Filed under: Exchange, sharepoint2010, SP2010

Group Calendars in SharePoint 2010: Part 1

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...

Published 03-05-2010 6:09 AM by Alex Pearce

Filed under: SP2010

SharePoint 2010 for Education: Part 2

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...

Published 02-16-2010 1:27 PM by Alex Pearce

Blast from the Past – Microsoft Class Server

I loved Microsoft Class Server. I had version 3 and then version 4 came out which came with Web Parts for SharePoint 2003. My Favourite part of Class Server was always the Teacher Client. It was great to create quiz's, true and false questions and...

Published 02-10-2010 10:36 AM by Alex Pearce

Filed under: ClassServer

SharePoint 2010 for Education: Part 1

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...

Published 02-04-2010 11:31 AM by Alex Pearce

Filed under: SP2010, BETT2010

SharePoint 2010 @ #BETT2010

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...

Published 01-14-2010 1:49 AM by Alex Pearce

The Next Learning Gateway: Live@edu

There are many email products that could be used for the Learning Gateway but if you ask most people they will say they use Microsoft Exchange. Microsoft recently released their latest version of Exchange (Exchange 2010) which we will look into further...

Published 01-01-2010 1:45 PM by Alex Pearce

Filed under: Exchange, MLG, live@edu

Speaking at #BETT on SharePoint 2010

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...

Published 12-07-2009 5:42 AM by Alex Pearce

Filed under: sharepoint, sharepoint2010, bett

The Next Learning Gateway: Virtualisation

As we start to look at the next version of server products I wanted to touch on Microsoft latest version of Hyper-V. So what is HyperV/Virtualisation? Released as a updated feature in Windows Server 2008 R2, Hyper-V provides virtualisation of your operating...

Published 11-23-2009 8:55 AM by Alex Pearce

Filed under: Windows Server, HyperV

I’m attending #SPC09 SharePoint Conference 2009

I’m very excited that at the end of this week I will be in Las Vegas for the SharePoint Conference 2009. Its going to be a great event with the first real look at SharePoint 2010. If you are attending and would like to chat about Learning Gateways...

Published 10-12-2009 1:01 PM by Alex Pearce

Content for the Learning Gateway

I recently spoke at an event about engaging users in your Learning Gateway with the right content in the right areas. You have content everywhere. Don’t think that content is just a Word document or SCORM files you have brought from a content supplier...

Published 10-08-2009 1:22 PM by Alex Pearce

Filed under: MLG, sharepoint, User Adoption

My Top 5 User Adoption Tips, SUGUK, 10th September

Thanks to every who attended the SharePoint User Group in Nottingham on Thursday. It was the first time I had done this talk so I hope you found it useful. Here are few of the points that I talked about Branding Building a custom CSS or master page...

Published 09-12-2009 1:54 PM by Alex Pearce

Filed under: sharepoint, SUGUK

The next Learning Gateway: Client Summary

Over the last 2 blog posts we have looked at the client side of the next Microsoft Learning Gateway. Since the posts Windows 7 has hit yet another milestone and the final one before general release on the 22nd October. Windows 7 RTM (Release To...

Published 08-15-2009 3:37 PM by Alex Pearce

Filed under: Windows 7, MLG

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