Branding your Portal
Penny Coventry (MVP)
http://www.sharepointdesignerstepbystep.com
Agenda:
What is branding
Branding Basics
Branding options in the browser
Using SPD
Next steps
What is branding
More than just a header, its about site and content design. Was difficult in V1 and V2, WSS3 and MOSS2007 isnt so bad now. Still a challenge.
Its more than just colouring! Navigation, etc. Know what you need to alter. Know who is doing what - visitors, editors etc.
Consider the us
Sites and Templates
Use the top level site as a "front page" for rolling up information held elsewhere dependant on the user. Use the Audience capability in Sharepoint for information targeting (eg News).
Other sub-areas:
Students
Staff
Classes
Think about how you catagorize things.... for navigation and site layout. Generally, it is not a good idea to have lots of subsites under one site. Branch it out.
Egs....
Staff
--Departments
--Staff Room
Classes
--Year
--Subject
Unified Communications for the Learning Gateway
Office Communications Server... links to AD, providing presence information for the user.
Initiate chat/call session with user if available. Can be used for helpdesk....?
Linked with Sharepoint, can use functionality of Live Meeting to share the document or screen.
Unified Communications Technology
Microsoft UC Stack
-Exchange 2007 / Office Communications Server 2007
-Live Conferenceing/ Web Conferencing 2007
Architechure
Best Practice for Sharepoint Configuration
Steve Smith (MVP):
Owner Combined Knowledge
[email protected]
Twitter stevesmithck
UK Sharepoint User Group
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Link/Upload of slide deck to follow...
Agenda:
Sharepoint Terminolgy
Dont we just put the CD in the server
Its not just about Sharepoint
SQL Config Demo
Best Practice Summary
Resources
Sharepoint Logical Terminology
Sharepoint Farm:
Shared -------------------------
S
Gonna try and keep a blog running from the LGC in Birminham.... yeah I know thats a long way from my normal neck of the woods! Sat with Russ and James...
Welcomes from Richard, Alex and then Steve from MSFT.
... Microsoft UK Education Vision ...
(Slides to be linked to/attached later...)
:: Main UK focus: Products/Services, Programs and Research
:: Student Centric view with partners...
:: Conflict between Institution and Home view (the old Facebook arguement!)...
:: Evolution
Hi All,
We’ve been throwing the idea around in the office of using an instant messenger service, possibly Microsoft Office Communications server. Instant messaging (IM) is a collection of technologies that create the possibility of real-time text-based communication between two or more participants over the internet or some form of internal network/intranet. The benefits would be;
• Allows for "instant" communications. This can save time and money as you can resolve questions or problems i
I thought i would make a quick blog post on a popular topic cropping up in the forums.
I hope IT will find this useful as well as SMT, ultimately it is with the students in mind.
Internet is not just a research tool now for students it is a way for them to communicate which is great but the internet can be dangerous students are susceptable to unsuitable internet sites, bullying threats the list is endless..
With schools Colleges and Uni's becoming increasingly reliant on IT, with netw
I have seen lots of posts made about music files being found m4s, mp3s and files that shouldnt be there, there is a lot of interest in the forums so thought i would make this blog post on the solution we found helpful at very little cost.
Andy Clake shown me this clever technology which identifies the space being wasted accross the network duplicates, files no-one is using anymore, files that should not be on there these m4s,mp3s and he shown me how with his technology he can actually move th
Enforce your esafety policies watch the video I am still amazed at the comprehensive security of this particular product and I am yet to see anything similar, if you have let me know...
http://www.lightspeedsystems.com/resources/Lightspeed_TTC_Demo.html
Hi all,
I thought it'd be useful to clarify some of the misinformation being published.
SoftXpand is a software solution which is very different in its operation to other products which may appear on the surface to be similar.
It does not alter or manipulate the XP Pro OS that controls the single hardware device.
I do not wish to repeat what has previously been written, which explains in detail why only 1 copy of XP Pro OEM is required. (http://www.edugeek.net/forums/hardware/35205-s
The guys who attended the eco-schools show had a great time. Most of the schools brought along students who were playing with some pretty cool SoftXpand set ups who would come accross then go and get their teachers. But the feeling from the team was that, schools and eco, equals recycling and pond building. Narrow I know, but it was just their feeling.
So for those guys n gals buying workstations in their hundreds or building their own mini data centres with thin client networks remember this
Do you know if you setup a badge scanning system on your printer fleet if it saves any costs on toner or paper waste? or is it with the time and effort?
Basically today I purchased a GoCard (similar to a Oyaster Card) so i decided to go on the website to register it to my name which resulted in two options:
Phone
Web
So since i hate talking on the phone I decided to go with the Web route so that presented me with a form I had to fill in and submit then i get given a phone number i have to ring in approx. two days to get my password for the web portal!
Why couldn't they just tell me before hand so i could just ring instead and have it
I haven't posted here for a while and there's a good (or bad depending how you look at it) reason.
I've deserted. I'm expecting Dos_Box to put a bounty out on me and have me shot at dawn
The blog as been moved and is now in full rant over at...
http://tmcd35.wordpress.com/
if anybody is truely interested in my prose - don't blame you, I'm not
One of the things that bugs me in education ICT is the massive amount of poorly designed GUIs floating around.
We've all seen them, pieces of software which are so poorly laid out, or confusing to configure that you want to pull your hair out.
I'll give an example - TextEase 2000. The interface for dragging and dropping things on to a page is fine. But what about if you want to print, and do something other than the default. The GUI to do that is near impossible to fathom. Or the fact that
I've been playing around with this for a while. I must say as an OS - I like it! It feels somewhat uncomplicated compared to other *nix's.
Today I'm going for a fresh install of NetBSD 5 and see what I can get out of it. Wish me luck!
The Platform
Nice and simple - VMWare Fusion 2.x (whatever the latest is). 1 Core (from a 2.16Ghz Core Duo) and 768mb Ram. Hard Drive is 15Gb pre allocated.
A word on the hard drive. I've noticed with previous install attempts that NetBSD does not l
The next installment of my "Jobs for the Holidays" series...
1. Install WSS3 and MOSS2007 SP2:
This could be fun! Let hope it dont break any of my highly customised environment!
2. Install Server 2008 SP2:
Some fun and games of Server restarting! Its about time we got some updates done...
3. Rebuild 2 ICT Suites (60 PCs):
When we did the Print Server update (see earlier blogs) - the HP drivers screwed up a few machines when trying to push them from a Server 08 x64 server. Some of th
OK - so Sharepoint has Forums (well, discussion boards as they call them) built in. However, not really as full featured as I would like - or as you would see elsewhere on the Internet.
So... came across this a while back from Codeplex. Problem... not strictly WSS3/MOSS 2007 compatible. Fair dooooos - thought would leave it alone a bit.
Most other things on our system are sorted now, so I went back to it. This is what it looks like (attached), and also a link to it...
http://www.co
A few small jobs to report on, this time nothing Mutliseat related ( ).
Office XP SP3
I'm not going to detail the process here since only out of date institutions like ours are still using this and if you really need the instructions are all over the net (http://support.microsoft.com/kb/832671). But, boy what a palaver! I thought I'd have to attach a update or to to the MSI deployment in GPO. Instead I had to unpack the update and tap in a pretty long command to get the ball rolling.
