Mark Dunkel

Pushing Departmental Announcements to Students - Appointlink

mdunkel — Fri, 20 Mar 2009 23:15:08 GMT

Customers often ask about how they can push departmental announcements to student homepages. Using SharePoint audiences customers can target specific content to a particular group on their SharePoint sites. In this demo, Appointlink shows us how they...(read more)

SharePoint LMS Course Management - AppointLink

mdunkel — Fri, 20 Mar 2009 23:13:57 GMT

I wish I had a nickel for every time I've heard customers ask about LMS solutions being developed on SharePoint. Almost immediately people see how the rich feature set of SharePoint could be extended for LMS style solutions. In this demo, Appointlink...(read more)

SharePoint LMS Student Home Page - AppointLink

mdunkel — Fri, 20 Mar 2009 23:12:20 GMT

Looking for inspiration for a SharePoint Student LMS landing page? Look no further. In this demo, Appointlink walks us through the student home landing page they have developed complete with relevant links/information, event, groups/sites, and course...(read more)

SharePoint LMS Seating Chart - Appointlink

mdunkel — Fri, 20 Mar 2009 23:10:10 GMT

This is cool demo by AppointLink that allows an instructors to build a seating chart tied with student photos by course. The solution ties in with the SIS system, which makes it easy for instructors to only return the appropriate students per course for...(read more)

Independent SharePoint 3rd Party Product Reviews

mdunkel — Wed, 25 Feb 2009 18:53:16 GMT

With so many SharePoint Partner building solutions on the platform it come sometimes make your head spin keeping up. Check out this web site for 3rd party product reviews. SharePoint Product Reviews...(read more)

Another FREE resource for SharePoint How To Videos

mdunkel — Thu, 12 Feb 2009 17:27:33 GMT

This is a great resource to add to your End User SharePoint training toolbox. Simply think to the site or video from your SharePoint Support site. End users can access this information 24/7, which may help in minimizing the training burden on your IT...(read more)

Copy/Bulk Move in SharePoint

mdunkel — Fri, 06 Feb 2009 18:43:13 GMT

At times you may need to copy/bulk move some SharePoint content around. This cool solution from MetaVis Technologies allows you to do just that...and much more. MetaVis Technologies...(read more)

Network File Share Webparts

mdunkel — Fri, 06 Feb 2009 18:25:58 GMT

Many customers have asked for Network File Share Webparts that would provide access to their shares directly within SharePoint. The file shares can either be displayed using a traditional web application or via web folders (WEBDAV). Special thanks to...(read more)

Adobe PDF iFilter 9 for 64-bit Platforms

mdunkel — Fri, 06 Feb 2009 18:13:49 GMT

Many customers have been waiting for the Adobe 64-Bit iFilter to be produced. This makes it possible to search within Adobe PDF documents being crawled by the SharePoint Search Engine. At last here it is... Adobe PDF 64-Bit iFilter...(read more)

Scanning, Storage, and Archiving with SharePoint

mdunkel — Fri, 06 Feb 2009 18:07:53 GMT

Many customers are unaware that SharePoint has some excellent partners who specialize in Scanning, Storage, and Archiving large volumes of data. Below, I've listed some of these partners: http://www.knowledgelake.com/ http://bluethreadinc.com/ http://www.clearviewecm.com/...(read more)

SharePoint Conference 2009

mdunkel — Fri, 06 Feb 2009 17:58:18 GMT

Microsoft is delighted to announce SharePoint Conference 2009 at the Mandalay Bay Events Center in Las Vegas, Nevada on October 19-22, 2009. Don’t miss your chance to attend the premier worldwide conference dedicated to SharePoint and related...(read more)

FREE SharePoint Developer and Search Training

mdunkel — Fri, 06 Feb 2009 17:51:31 GMT

There is some very good new developer training available and it is completely FREE. With over 12 hours of content these modules cover: Developing Solutions on the SharePoint Platform Web Parts Page Navigation Page Branding Data Lists Web Services Event...(read more)

SharePoint EDU examples over the pond (UK)

mdunkel — Mon, 27 Oct 2008 18:13:00 GMT

SharePoint provides so much functionality right our of the box. How you combine these feature to solve your specific EDU challenges can be an art unto itself. If you are looking for inspiration and ideas check out what some of our friends are doing in...(read more)

I'm a Loser!

mdunkel — Thu, 25 Sep 2008 21:37:54 GMT

Some people just shouldn't bet. Particularly when your not very good at golf. You see this post was conceived on the golf course. That ever elusive pastime that married men with kids can certainly relate too. Recently, my good pal Jeff Nuckolls (Nucks)...(read more)

I'm A PC

mdunkel — Fri, 19 Sep 2008 18:46:46 GMT

And I am passionate about Education and preparing our kids for the global economy! http://www.microsoft.com/presspass/windows/videoGallery.aspx ...(read more)