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Backing up Office 365 at last an answer

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...

Published Tue, Feb 21 2012 6:12 AM by SharePointEduTechSharePointEduTech

Filed under: Office 365, SharePoint, Backup, Office 365 Grid

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...

Published Fri, Feb 17 2012 2:13 PM by SharePointEduTechSharePointEduTech

Filed under: Sharepoint 2010, Community, SharePoint 2007, Case Study

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...

Published Thu, Feb 09 2012 10:12 AM by SharePointEduTechSharePointEduTech

Filed under: Rant, Broadband, Virgin Media

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...

Published Tue, Feb 07 2012 10:50 AM by SharePointEduTechSharePointEduTech

Filed under: Webinar

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...

Published Mon, Feb 06 2012 8:18 AM by SharePointEduTech SharePointEduTech

Filed under: Sharepoint 2010, File Xplorer

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...

Published Fri, Feb 03 2012 1:17 AM by SharePointEduTech

Filed under: Sharepoint 2010, SharePoint, Unread email, Solutions

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...

Published Thu, Feb 02 2012 12:07 PM by SharePointEduTech

Filed under: SharePoint

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...

Published Wed, Feb 01 2012 1:56 PM by SharePointEduTech

Filed under: Sharepoint 2010, SharePoint

SharePoint 15 to get an App Store!

Just decided to have a few minutes investigation into the recently released SharePoint 15 Technical Preview Managed Object Model SDK to see if there is any insight into what’s coming up! Here’s some very findings.. The SPApp Store classes...

Published Wed, Feb 01 2012 10:23 AM by SharePointEduTech