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Exchange 2010 Product Center Now Available

Jeff Jacobson — Thu, 11 Mar 2010 18:39:00 GMT

Today we launched the Microsoft Exchange Server 2010 Product Center! This MEPN subsite presents a rich collection of resources organized to help our partner community take advantage of the reliability, performance, and powerful features of Exchange 2010 for their customers. Check out the new subsite, and let us know what you think. Stay tuned for new Product Center releases that will cover Access and Identity, Windows Azure, and many others.

Conversation about integrating gaming into learning

Education Insights — Thu, 11 Mar 2010 16:54:00 GMT

Being a gamer myself…and someone who not only grew up with video games and seen the emergence of games mirroring the emergence of technology…I understand the culture and the environment, and certainly the potential games can have to inspire students and get kids more integrated with learning. One of the things I hear when I talk to schools about the possibility of gaming is that everyone understands it's the potential. I see the same sort of excitement I saw with technology's emergence in...(read more)

Speaking at SharePoint User Group: Education

Learning Gateway User Group — Wed, 10 Mar 2010 22:24:00 GMT

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 and end user adoption point of view. Have you got everything you need for your SharePoint or having trouble getting all your staff and students on board? Maybe its just one of these questions and answers, that you need for your own school that...(read more)

Microsoft Further Education Briefing 2010 – London 19th March

The UK Higher Education Blog — Wed, 10 Mar 2010 20:39:49 GMT

The booking deadline is approaching for our Further Education Briefing day, which this year falls on 19th March in London. If you haven’t registered yet, then it’s worth taking a look at the agenda, as we’ve built it to make sure that you can get lots Read More......(read more)

New Post: Self Assignments

SLK Forum Rss Feed — Wed, 10 Mar 2010 12:42:46 GMT

How can I enable self-assignments for my SLK users without granting all of them with the Instructor role and disabling the option to create assignments to others? Basically, I just want to make a bunch of opt-in courses available but without previously creating assignments. Is this possible? Thanks in advance, Milton Moura...(read more)

Microsoft SQL Failover Cluster – Part 1

Learning Gateway User Group — Wed, 10 Mar 2010 12:25:00 GMT

If you’ve been reading the blog then you will have seen the videos I posted on setting up a Microsoft Hyper-V failover cluster. The next step in our plan was to create a Microsoft SQL failover cluster within the Hyper-V cluster. Sounds strange, well setting it up took some working out and reconfiguration of the SAN so I thought I would put down the steps in writing. Before I continue I have to thank Chris McKinley at Twynham School for listeing to me and answering quite a lot of questions....(read more)

Challenges with optimizing curriculum for state assessments, grades and competencies

Education Insights — Wed, 10 Mar 2010 00:12:00 GMT

I always enjoy talking to Kurt Madden, and learning more about his progress and vision for Fresno Unified School District . They're making significant strides with regards to the use of technology and its potential impact on student achievement in the classroom. I met up with Kurt at our recent U.S. Public Sector CIO Summit (see my blog about the event here ). We got into a conversation around how we think the district can use their advantage and their thinking with regards to data on the students...(read more)

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

Learning Gateway User Group — Mon, 08 Mar 2010 22:20:00 GMT

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 in Part 1 click on Calendars in View down the left hand side. Click on New Calendar Give it a name and click on Exchange as a calendar Type. Fill in the Outlook Web Access URL and click Find . This will automatically...(read more)

Microsoft Hyper-V Clustering – Final Design

Learning Gateway User Group — Mon, 08 Mar 2010 15:04:56 GMT

After months of trials and rebuilding of network designs and servers I have finally settled on a design for my Hyper-V clustering setup. The diagram below shows 1 Hyper-V server (we have 5 in total) and the network connections plus the 4 other physical servers that will remain in the domain. The design gives us a redundant route for the iSCSI system and then normal LAN connection. Here’s a picture of the back of the Hyper-V servers with the network connections labelled LAN A is not shared...(read more)

BING Earth Day Photo Contents… For Students!

It's all about edU — Mon, 08 Mar 2010 04:51:54 GMT

Bing Is Next Gen Bing Is Now Gellin’ Big Investment, New Game Whatever your interpretation of the name, Microsoft’s Decision Engine is making search fun again with features like visual search, image and video search, and cash back search for shopping Read More......(read more)

Getting Active Directory Ready for Sharepoint 2010

Learning Gateway User Group — Sat, 06 Mar 2010 20:28:00 GMT

I’ve spent the past few days getting our Active Directory tidied up ready for the User Profile Import in to SharePoint 2010. To do this I found a great utility of the web from www.wisesoft.co.uk called Bulk AD Users. I was a little apprehensive about performing bulk operations on the AD database, but with a little testing this application has proved to be worth the cost. (Oh by the way, its free !) In the past I would have struggled with a script to do this or spent ages wading through individual...(read more)

New Post: SCORM and BasicPlayer

SLK Forum Rss Feed — Sat, 06 Mar 2010 05:42:10 GMT

I am just using the BasicPlayer in conjunction with my own LMS (no Sharepoint). When training is complete I want to return to a web page in my LMS. To do this I have modified the closeFrameset() function in FramesetMgr.js to not do a top.close() but rather function closeFrameset() { top.location = '/training/Complete/' + API_GetFramesetManager().m_attemptId; } When I create a small, test SCORM package which does a SetValue("adl.nav.request", "exitAll") followed by Commit...(read more)

Group Calendars in SharePoint 2010: Part 1

Learning Gateway User Group — Fri, 05 Mar 2010 14:09:46 GMT

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 put several calendars in your SharePoint Site on top of each other. Here is a SharePoint Calendar in 2010 and you will notice down the left hand side you have Calendars in View . I have my default calendar as...(read more)

Mergers and Acquisitions – What happens when universities collide

The UK Higher Education Blog — Fri, 05 Mar 2010 11:00:33 GMT

One of the themes from the UCISA conference this year, from the first keynote on, was the possibility of massive upheaval in the higher education sector in the UK. Tough spending reviews, new ways of doing things and the very imminent possibility of multiple Read More......(read more)

New Post: how can we give dependency at SLK assignment level?

SLK Forum Rss Feed — Thu, 04 Mar 2010 13:40:18 GMT

Hello sir, I just tried SLK with my sharepoint site, its really very good application. but i have some few question where i stucked! suppose i create 3 different task(assignment) suppose task1, task2, task3 and i want to give dependency like suppose when user directly go for task3, so before going task3 he need to give first two assignment... How can we give this type of dependency at assignment level? Waiting for your reply, Please help. Thank you in advance, Nitin...(read more)