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Microsoft Education in the Cloud
Upgrade from Live@edu to Office 365 for education
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4 days ago
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James B Marshall
Some of you may have heard about Office 365 for education – if not go and read up ! One of the most common questions I get asked by existing customers is: how do I upgrade from Live@edu to Office 365 for education? Well the great news is that we’ve launched...
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Customer Story: Achieving consistent SSO with AD FS 2.0 and Office 365 for education
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9 days ago
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James B Marshall
AD FS 2.0 offers institutions who are deploying Office 365 for education a really rich and effective way to provide a single sign-on experience to users. With just one set of credentials teachers and pupils can access the full range of resources that...
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What are the system requirements for Office 365 for education?
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17 days ago
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DerekSeymour
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An important part of preparing to deploy Office 365 for education services is making sure that all the system requirements are met for the machines used by administrators and users to connect. There are minimum levels supported and recommended for client...
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What are Office Web Apps and can I use my iPad with Office 365 Web Apps?
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19 days ago
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markga
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Office Web Apps are a part of two Microsoft cloud service offerings: Microsoft SkyDrive (standalone at http://skydrive.live.com and a part of Live@edu) and Microsoft SharePoint Online. With Office Web Apps, you have the ability to create, view and edit...
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Is your IT environment ready for Office 365 for education?
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25 days ago
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James B Marshall
If you’re looking at deploying Office 365 for education this summer a question you need to ask yourself is: is your IT environment ready for Office 365 for education? Are you running compatible operating systems, or versions of Microsoft Office? The Microsoft...
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Automatic Replies & MailTips
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27 days ago
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James B Marshall
“Did you get my last email?” Have you ever sent an email to someone and wondered why you haven’t had a response? Is that distribution group you asked a question to ignoring you? Chances are you’ve encountered people who aren’t making best use of automatic...
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The Schools Network chooses Office 365 for education
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1 month ago
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James B Marshall
The Schools Network—formerly known as the Specialist Schools and Academies Trust—is in the business of transforming education around the world. Over the past 25 years, this London-based, not-for-profit organization has built a world-class network of innovative...
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Essential Reading: Office 365 for education
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1 month ago
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James B Marshall
If you’ve been looking at Microsoft’s cloud services for a while now, in particular Live@edu , then you may well have seen the trusty deployment guide that has helped many customers deploy Live@edu in their institutions successfully. Wouldn’t it be great...
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What type of migration throughput can I get when migrating to Office 365?
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1 month ago
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markga
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This is a question I get asked quite often from customers. There are certainly many variables that factor into your average throughput during a migration including data source, network, migration engine, service throttling, etc. We just released...
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Microsoft Office 365 for Education - Webcast Series
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1 month ago
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jonnychambers
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Work together from virtually anywhere. Help your students, faculty and alumni stay connected and work together from virtually anywhere! Provide free access to email, calendars, document sharing, instant messaging, video chat, mobile email, and more. Help...
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Where can I go to find Office 365 help documentation?
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1 month ago
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markga
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I was asked by a university in northern California evaluating Office 365 where they could find help reference files: Where is the main Office 365 help site? There is a main Office 365 help main page where you can search and drill into various Office 365...
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What is the difference between Exchange Online Unified Messaging and Exchange 2010 on prem Unified Messaging?
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2 months ago
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markga
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This was a question asked by a large university in Ohio moving towards Office 365. Diagram showing non-SIP based PBX connecting to Exchange Online Unified Messaging The good news is Exchange Online UM is almost the same in functionality to the...
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New Checklist Guidance for Hybrid Deployment with Exchange 2003
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2 months ago
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Zion Brewer
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Just announced on The Exchange Team Blog, “We're happy to announce that the Exchange Server Deployment Assistant (ExDeploy) has been enhanced to include support for configuring hybrid deployments using Exchange 2010 SP2 and the Hybrid Configuration Wizard...
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SharePoint Online Templates
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2 months ago
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James B Marshall
Microsoft SharePoint MVP Alex Pearce , of BFC Networks , has been a busy man over the last few months! If he’s not helping us present at the annual BETT show in London he’s building SharePoint 2010 templates for education – these also...
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Booking resource calendars in Office 365
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2 months ago
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GregK
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My customers asked about resource calendars and where do I increase the advanced booking settings in Office 365. This is done via powershell. You have to set-calendarprocessing “resource” –bookingWindowInDays 365. In my case I only had one change...
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New Lower Prices For Office 365
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2 months ago
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James B Marshall
Yesterday Kirk Koenigsbauer , Corporate Vice President of the Microsoft Office Division product management group, made an announcement about some changes we’ve made to the pricing for Office 365 for enterprises, and Office 365 for education. “As we rapidly...
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Southern State Community College talks about their Live@edu deployment
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2 months ago
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Gabe Loshbaugh
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While sitting down with Bob Snellman, IT Manager from Southern State Community College I was able to ask him a few questions about his recent Live@edu deployment at the institutions he supports… here is what Bob had to say! Q: Bob, can you...
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Full Directory Synchronisation… Suits You…
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2 months ago
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James B Marshall
Guest post by Office 365 Consultant, Tony Ison. If you have just jumped on-board with Office 365, or are looking to migrate over once general availability has been announced, then here is a little gem that you might find useful. Currently under Live@edu...
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Supervision Policies for Exchange Online in Office 365 for education
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2 months ago
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James B Marshall
Something I imagine a lot of you might be asking yourselves is whether or not there’ll be supervision policies for Exchange Online in Office 365 for education like there are in Live@edu? Policies like the bad word supervision policy, and the closed campus...
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Webcast: Migrating to Live@edu and Office 365 for education
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2 months ago
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James B Marshall
This Thursday, 1st March (St. David’s day, if you’re Welsh!), and again on the 6th of March, we’ll be running a webcast where you can learn about some of the different methods and tools there are to aid your migration to the cloud! The webcast will cover...
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Updated: Webcast: Migrating to Live@edu and Office 365 for education
Posted
2 months ago
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James B Marshall
This Thursday, 1st March (St. David’s day, if you’re Welsh!), and again on the 6th of March, we’ll be running a webcast where you can learn about some of the different methods and tools there are to aid your migration to the cloud! The webcast will cover...
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Calendar Delegation
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3 months ago
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GregK
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Working with Office 365 you have to start using new tools to do familiar things. I was asked the other day about setting up permissions for delegated permission on a calendar by a customer. I first thought about ExFolders and realized that wouldn’t be...
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How to integrate Live@edu into Moodle 2.0
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3 months ago
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James B Marshall
Moodlerooms, Inc., has developed an integration connecting Microsoft’s Live@edu services and Moodle, the world’s most widely-used Learning Management System. With this integration, Moodlerooms makes the rich functionality of Live@edu directly accessible...
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Live@edu plug-in for Moodle developed by Moodlerooms was officially released today
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3 months ago
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jonnychambers
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The Live@edu plug-in for Moodle developed by Moodlerooms was officially released today to the Moodle community. The plug-in integrates email, calendar, instant messaging and Bing right into the Moodle classroom environment. This Moodlerooms release works...
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Service Update: Sender Photo Enabled by Default
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3 months ago
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Zion Brewer
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Here’s a preview of the new Sender Photo feature that is enabled by default for all Outlook Live and Exchange Online users after the December 2011 Service Update . We’ve included some guidance on how to configure Sender Photo and how to disable it (in...
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