Sharepoint Definitive Guide Competition

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Sharepoint is graet deal of work as multiple incorportion of data at a single point makes it user freinly and time iis saved. I would rather prefer sharepoint tecnique rather than visiting many sites searching for desird task.

 

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Took delivery of my copy today... courtesy of play.com. Read the first 4 pages... initial thoughts: easy read, sets things up nicely for the remaining 500+ pages...

 

Due to the lack of responses we have decided to extend the deadline till the end of July.

So, you all now have a little over 2 weeks left to find out about sharepoint and put your entry in, otherwise it looks like I'll be walking away with the book by default (as it seems that I'm the only one with a serious entry).

 

This is not an entry into the competition, just a heads up on a sharepoint project.

We are working with a company that has rolled out a platform with a top level site adn then 330+ sites underneath, one for each school. 130,000+ mailboxes, some custom webparts for user admin (since no admin contact in the school with have site collection rights across the whole platform, only in their site they own.

Each secondary school has multiple sub-sites ... mainly for each department , but each course also has its own site based around class groups, resulting in some schools having 500+ sub-sites.

This is before we get onto pastoral areas, where we allow for peer mentoring and student support.

All of the above is authenticated (and having to run over https due to data protection of student information) and will eventually have a shibboleth hook into the regional broadband provider for schools so when you log into your RBC account you have SSO into the sharepoint platform.

The next stages include each school have a public area, parental access so that each student's work and so on can be seen by parents, a hook into the school MIS so that the parents can also see attendance and other information (grades / reports / etc).

And now we are looking at working with Moodle for integration too ... looking at the work a college has done to allow for students to have direct links on their my site to each Moodle course that are enrolled on and each assignment they have been given.

And we haven't even begun to touch on the use of LiveComs for presence management, shared desktops or video conferencing yet.

The result? A shared platform to allow schools to share resources as the next generation of courses (Diplomas aimed at 14-19 year olds) mean that they are delivered by more than one school (usually with the help of an FE / HE college too) even to the point of some aspects will have to be delivered via distance learning.

Departments in different schools will need to be able to communicate and have document management to ensure versions of active documents is sorted, and that data is accurately shared.

A small project by fun.

 

Okay, it's been a long time coming and I'm a little late with this (due to holidays).

We've had a quick discussion out back and it's my pleasure to announce that Arroryn is the winner of the Sharepoint 2007: The Definitive Guide competition.

We'll be getting in touch with her shortly to arrange the delivery of her prize.

Congrats Arro and thanks for the effort. I hope you can put it to great use.

(nuts, now it looks like I'll have to go and buy my own)

 

Well, you and I had the only serious entries and how would it look if I announced me as the winner.

Hey, wait a minute, what do I care about how it looks.

 

*quickly removes sticky little fingers from book*

 

Hey! Waitaminute! What about that copy I entrusted to Ryan's missus to take over the Pond to the UK?

Congratulations, Arroryn. I only got five author's copies from the publisher and only have one left (my copy),so this certainly is a prize.

 

Congrats, Arro!

 

Oh c'mon. Show us.

 

It's signed too! Thanks everyone who made the effort to take part, I wanted something that was remotely technically based to decide the winner here as personally I dont like giving away perfectly good books for amusing boob jokes, however good the boobs! I mean jokes I felt the challange was pretty easy even for novice techs, as we saw with some of the entries from people completly new to sharepoint, so well done everyone! Well done Dawn, and good luck to everyone in future comps I will contact the motherland and arrange transportation for said prize

 

Well done ... I look forward to seeing it up and running ... a month should be a reasonable amount of time to play around.