Back in July 2011 shortly after the release of Office 365 I published a blog post titled “ OK I have my Office 365 account now how do I back it up?” Well back then the options were extremely limited with only the offboarding that MetaVis offered being the only solution for backup of your office …
Monthly Archive: February 2012
Feb 17
More SharePoint case studies please contributors needed
I read with interest Mark Rackley’s post today “Tips for Joining the SharePoint Community” and agreed with it entirely, the SharePoint community is truly great and the most vibrant I have found in working more than 20 years in IT, and I could not agree more with the part about blogging start your own blog …
Feb 09
Slow internet connection on Virgin Media
We have a very odd problem that is at around 8.30pm every night our internet connection which is provided by Virgin Media slows to a crawl this continues to around 11pm then all ok again. As an example the other night I tried sending a 2 line email and it failed I never had that …
Feb 07
Upcoming Microsoft UK Education webcasts
System Center 2012 – An Overview March 6th, 11am-12pm System Center 2012 can transform your IT Infrastructure, from your Desktops, to your Data Centre and out to the Cloud. Join this session, presented jointly by Microsoft and a Microsoft System Center Partner to understand what System Center 2010 can do for you. This …
Feb 06
Connect your File Server to SharePoint with File Explorer
One of the biggest challenges facing educational institutions and indeed most organisations when implementing SharePoint is the decision over which existing resources to move to SharePoint. In most cases it makes complete sense to take share drives from the file share and migrate them to SharePoint so that people can make full use of SharePoint …
Feb 03
Help drive SharePoint user adoption unread Email Icon
One of the things I have learnt is give people reasons to go to SharePoint and this will help with your user adoption strategy. I have written before about ways to achieve this but I thought I would share one solution that we use. The unread email is a simple web part that you configure …
Feb 02
Get those policies read with DocRead for SharePoint
As my new years resolution was to blog more and also send out more SharePoint Newsletters, here’s the first part fulfilled! For this installment, I thought I would take the opportunity to impart a bit of information about our new compliance solution called DocRead for SharePoint. DocRead is primarily a compliance solution for SharePoint 2007 …
Feb 01
Why choose SharePoint for Education? Thought Leader Interview with Dave Coleman
This post originally appeared on the question mark blog http://www.questionmark.com/us/index.aspx Dave is a Microsoft MVP and has been working with SharePoint in education for nearly a decade. I talked to him about why people choose SharePoint as a learning platform in schools, colleges and universities. Dave, what is your background in SharePoint? I’ve been using SharePoint …




