Archive for the ‘Class Server’ Category

Sharepoint Portal Services vs. Windows Sharepoint Services

Wednesday, November 23rd, 2005

I'd be interested to know about how secondary schools use Sharepoint for their intranets. We are currently licensed for SPS, but I'm finding it hard to see compelling reasons for using it over plain WSS in a secondary school environment. I don't particularly want to implement personal ...

Class Server 4 - The saga continues

Monday, November 7th, 2005

Today saw a smidgen more progress with our Class Server 4 installation. I managed to get all the classes into the database and all the teacher-class relationships too, as well as entering a few straggler teachers that didn't have accounts on the network (until today that is). Not perfect, but ...

Class Server gotcha #1

Tuesday, October 25th, 2005

Just a quick gotacha to be aware of: when installing Class Server 3 or 4 into Sharepoint, you'll need your Sharepoint to be installed into the web root "http://server/" rather than at "http://server/sharepoint/" or similar.That is all. 

Class Server 4 and the Temple of Doom

Tuesday, October 18th, 2005

What can I say about Class Server? It is possibly the least well supported Microsoft product I've ever come across. Not only do Microsoft put zero effort into the Class Server site, but the community support for it is almost non-existant. Try to find a screen shot of Class ...