Monthly Archive: May 2010

May
19

Licencing SharePoint 2010 for Education in the UK

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As you may know last week I gave a presentation at Microsoft Reading as part of a series of events showcasing SharePoint 2010, one of the slides in the deck was on the thorny subject of licencing prices, now I know from past experience that this is always a shall we say “lively” subject and …

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May
19

Using Microsoft Word 2010 to blog on WordPress

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This is a small test post to try out the feature in Word (2007 or 2010) that allows you to post straight to a blog from word. Make sure that in your wordpress admin section you have XML-RPC enabled. This is found under http://blogname/wp-admin/options-writing.php Then in Word go to file (what they also call ‘backstage’), …

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May
16

Backing Up Exchange 2007 and 2010 with Windows Server Backup

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One of the big outcry’s in the Exchange world was with the release of Exchange 2007 and Server 2008 and the omission of the ability to backup and flush your Exchange logs, this meant that a lot of Exchange admins had to go out and purchase a 3rd party backup tool, with previous versions of …

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May
14

SPEDU – SharePoint 2010 Upgrade Migration and Virtualization

Today myself and Alan Richards from West Hatch presented a session at Microsoft Reading on different options for upgrade or migration with SharePoint 2010 and also had a great debate on virtualization using Hyper-V, and again should it be a wholly virtual environment or a mixture of both. We are presenting at 3 more SPEDU …

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May
14

SPEDU – SharePoint 2010 Branding

Myself and Matt Hughes from Samworth Acadamy had the pleasure in presenting to a group of teachers and techies about branding SharePoint. Slides are below, we deviated quite alot during the presentation but you should get the gist! Any questions im @crmckinley and Matt is @mattmoo2 Branding  View more presentations from crmckinley. Technorati Tags: branding, …

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May
12

SUGUK 24th June Southampton University

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On the 24th June myself and Chris along with Darren White will be presenting a session at the SharePoint User Group UK meeting at Southampton university our session is titled “Our Journey to SharePoint 2010 Land” and we will cover the why, when and how we have moved from SharePoint 2007 to SharePoint 2010 also …

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May
12

Twynham School SharePoint 2010 – Microsoft Case Study

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Here at Twynham we have had a case study written about us by Microsoft it’s all about SharePoint 2010. Click here or the image below to read it in full. Technorati Tags: Case Study, Microsoft, SharePoint2010, Twynham

May
10

Dave and Chris welcome Cognitive as a sponsor to the blog

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Dave and Chris are very pleased to welcome Cognitive as their first sponsor to the blog. We hope that you will find this partnership useful as we continue to blog about the world of SharePoint and technology. With SharePoint 2010 really beginning to take off we know that there are plenty of SharePoint experts around …

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May
05

Opening PDFs in SharePoint 2010

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If you have your nice SP2010 setup you may notice that when you go to open a PDF file it prompts you to save it rather than opening. This is really annoying and would send everyone here at the school completely bananas! Not to mention the fact that we try to get everything on SharePoint …

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