Dave Coleman

Author's details

Name: Dave Coleman
Date registered: May 12, 2010
URL: http://sharepointedutech.com

Latest posts

  1. Help drive SharePoint user adoption unread Email Icon — February 3, 2012
  2. Why choose SharePoint for Education? Thought Leader Interview with Dave Coleman — February 1, 2012
  3. Adding your profile picture on Office 365 — January 21, 2012
  4. Webinar recording How to Use Content Types in SharePoint — January 16, 2012
  5. Migrating Google Docs to SharePoint — December 21, 2011

Most commented posts

  1. Live Bloggers needed for SharePoint Conference Anaheim 2011 SPC11 — 64 comments
  2. Changing File Associations Icons in SharePoint 2010 — 32 comments
  3. SharePoint Groups or Active Directory Groups? — 29 comments
  4. Free EBook SharePoint Admins Survival Guide — 20 comments
  5. What do you do about stolen blog posts? — 18 comments

Author's posts listings

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 …

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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 …

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Jan
16

Webinar recording How to Use Content Types in SharePoint

There are many mysteries when it comes to SharePoint one of those is content types and how to use them. Well I am pleased to say that the webinar we held on Wednesday 11th January with Laura Rogers went a long way to help and answer people’s questions. So if you missed the live webinar …

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Dec
21

Migrating Google Docs to SharePoint

There is no doubt that MetaVis are a truly innovative company so it was not a huge surprise when they released their migrator for Google docs to SharePoint. This simple to use solution is the same drag and drop interface that is common across all the MetaVis tools. And as you can see in the …

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Dec
15

New year SharePoint webinar schedule

11th January Title: – How to Use Content Types in SharePoint. Abstract: – In SharePoint, the concept of content types seems a bit ambiguous to most people. In this session, Laura Rogers will teach you what you need to know about content types to be able to implement them in your organization.  In conjunction with …

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Dec
09

Video Adding PowerShell to your admin tool belt with Todd Klindt

On Wednesday the 7th December I was lucky enough to host a webinar with Todd Klindt. It was very well attended and Todd gave many great real world examples of using PowerShell with SharePoint 2010. I did have one slight blip in the recording when I lost my internet connection for a couple of minuet’s …

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Dec
06

Accessing SharePoint document libraries mapped as a network drive

Just a quick post but useful to some hopefully, we had an email from a customer saying that they could map a network drive directly from a windows 7 computer to a SharePoint document library but could not from an XP machine? So a bit of background first some people would like to use the …

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Dec
05

Migrating Outlook contacts to SharePoint 2010

One of the questions I get asked frequently is how do I copy contact information from my outlook to SharePoint? This is commonly asked because people want to maintain their company contacts in SharePoint that will then become searchable across the enterprise. Well with MetaVis migrator this is easily achieved you can migrate the following …

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