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Chat with SharePoint MVPs Today

Every few months the Microsoft SharePoint team arrange a online chat for you to ask questions to SharePoint MVPs. Well, today is no exception. Come and ask any kind of question you have about SharePoint 2007 or 2010, a technical issue you...

Posted to Alex Pearce's Learning Gateway Blog by Alex Pearce on 07-21-2010

Learning Gateway Conference: Tomorrow

Tomorrow sees the second Learning Gateway Conference that both Richard Willis and I are very proud to bring to you. We have a very exciting day of speakers and sessions lined up and we hope you enjoy the day. The twitter hash tag for the day is #LGCUK10...

Posted to Alex Pearce's Learning Gateway Blog by Alex Pearce on 07-13-2010

Filed under: LGCUK10, Learning Gateway

SharePoint 2010: Forefront Identity Service not Started

I was making some changes to my User Profile Sync today and was finding that my changes weren’t taking place so I decided to check that my Active Directory connection in the User Profile Connections. For some reason it had disappeared so I decided...

Posted to Alex Pearce's Learning Gateway Blog by Alex Pearce on 07-06-2010

Filed under: SP2010

Moodle Webparts for SharePoint 2007

As a school we have decided to evaluate Moodle for a VLE for our school. The main reasons we have done this is because of the course builder with built in quizs and SCORM builders. I have to say they are very well built. They are not page...

Posted to Alex Pearce's Learning Gateway Blog by Alex Pearce on 06-30-2010

Filed under: sharepoint, Moodle

Blog Move

After blogging on this site for a while now I have decided to move to a dedicated hosting blog environment. The new blog can be found at http://edutechnow.com If you want to subscribe to the RSS feed it’s http://edutechnow.com/?feed=rss2

Posted to ICT for Education by Alan Richards on 06-23-2010

Deploying Windows 7 – Installing Microsoft Deployment Toolkit 2010

In the second of this series I am going to detail the installation and configuration of Microsoft Deployment Toolkit 2010. MDT 2010 can be downloaded from the Microsoft website You will also need to download the Windows 7 Automated Installation kit from...

Posted to ICT for Education by Alan Richards on 06-22-2010

Deploying Windows 7 – Installing Windows Deployment Services

Its approaching the summer break for Schools so I thought it was time to repeat a series I did a few months ago about deploying Windows 7. Over the next few days I will do a series of posts that explain the steps we used to deploy Windows 7 across our...

Posted to ICT for Education by Alan Richards on 06-20-2010

Filed under: Windows 7, Microsoft, Deployment Toolkit, Installing Windows 7, WDS, Windows Deployment Services, Windows

Implementing Moodle 1.9 on a Microsoft Highly Available Environment

In this whitepaper you will be instructed on how to install a Microsoft SQL Server 2008 R2 Cluster, 2 Web Front End Servers running Moodle 1.9 which are network load balanced and the configuration to run Moodle from a remote storage area. Following the...

Posted to Alex Pearce's Learning Gateway Blog by Alex Pearce on 06-15-2010

Filed under: Windows Server, SQL, Moodle, Clustering, High Availablity

Changes to WhitePaper: Moodle x64 PHP download

Since I publish the whitepapers on how to install Moodle on a Windows environment, to date (6th June 2010) they have been downloaded over 850 times. I certainly hope you have found they very useful. Over the next week I’ll be publish a 3rd Moodle...

Posted to Alex Pearce's Learning Gateway Blog by Alex Pearce on 06-06-2010

Filed under: Moodle

Deploying Windows 7 - An Event For Network Managers

THIS EVENT IS NOW FULL - SORRY Windows 7 is a year old this summer and many people will be getting ready to install it across their PC network. As the first School in Europe to fully deploy Windows 7, West Hatch High School is putting on an event on the...

Posted to ICT for Education by Alan Richards on 05-26-2010

Filed under: Windows 7, Microsoft, Installing Windows 7

Learning Gateway Conference 2010, 14th July, London

We are happy to announce that the Learning Gateway Conference is back and we are now taking bookings. This year we are travelling south and holding the conference in London on the 14th July at Church House around the corner from Westminster Abbey. The...

Posted to Alex Pearce's Learning Gateway Blog by Alex Pearce on 05-14-2010

Learning PowerShell: Part 2

In my previous post I looked at some of the very basics of PowerShell but now its time to create some scripts. I’m always building new virtual machines on my laptop and I’m fed up having to add IP Address and how I have click so many times to add this...

Posted to Alex Pearce's Learning Gateway Blog by Alex Pearce on 04-28-2010

Filed under: PowerShell

SharePoint 2010 Evolution Conference: Slides #SPEvo

Last week was great! I was at the SharePoint 2010 Evolution Conference in London hosted by Combined Knowledge. There were a few issues before the conference had even started with a slight volcano playing its part to stop many of the speakers...

Posted to Alex Pearce's Learning Gateway Blog by Alex Pearce on 04-27-2010

Learning PowerShell: Part 1

I’ve been meaning to learn PowerShell for some time now as its an important of SharePoint 2010 and I thought I better get started. In SharePoint 2010 even if you wanted to try and avoid PowerShell you won’t be able to as this is the best way to...