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Microsoft announces Office for iPad
Posted
10 months ago
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AshIddya
Microsoft is devoted to providing the tools which enable people from all walks of life to work anywhere and on any device. The ever increasing portfolio of Windows based devices available lay testament to that and with over a billion users of Microsoft...
Questions about ADFS and Single Sign On (SSO) with Office 365 for Education
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over 3 years ago
by
markga
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I had several ADFS and Single Sign On (SSO) questions from a large university in northern California proceeding with Office 365 for Education for faculty, staff and students. What servers do I need to accommodate single sign on (SSO) aka Federated...
Federation Metadata Update Tool should be installed with every ADFS and Office 365 deployment
Posted
over 2 years ago
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markga
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Comments
If you are deploying ADFS with Office 365, we have a federation metadata update tool available which we strongly strongly recommend you to deploy with any ADFS deployment used for federation with Office 365. This update tool will automatically update...
Yammer Enterprise for Office 365 Education now available!
Posted
6 months ago
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markga
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Great news today we announced the availability of Yammer Enterprise in your Office 365 Education tenant. It is in the process being rolled out to all education tenants as we speak so check your tenant as it should be arriving in the near future...
Deploying and Managing Office 365 ProPlus
Posted
over 1 year ago
by
jamesbmarshall
It’s a very exciting time to be an Office 365 Education customer. Student Advantage availability is just around the corner , and we’ve put a few posts up discussing how to get it, but it’s also important to consider how you’ll be deploying and managing...
What are my options to deploy Office 365 ProPlus?
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over 1 year ago
by
markga
8
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This is becoming a popular question in education now that Student Advantage is coming very soon. I put together a quick FAQ to answer some of these common questions. What is Office 365 ProPlus Click-to-Run and how does it differ from MSI/ISO installations...
Can I toggle on and off Sites, Newsfeed, OneDrive inside of SharePoint Online?
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8 months ago
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markga
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This is a very popular request in education where you may want to hide a subset of SharePoint Online functionality such as newsfeeds or sites for example. The good news is we now just shipped this update to SharePoint Online that provides this capability...
Yammer available with academic plans beginning today!
Posted
6 months ago
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AshIddya
Great news, beginning today Yammer Enterprise will ship with all Office 365 A plans at no additional cost. The availability was announced yesterday in this blog post. Schools are facing increasing pressure to provide faculty, staff and students with the...
How do I get Student Advantage in Office 365 Education? (Part Three)
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over 1 year ago
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jamesbmarshall
In part one of this little trio I talked about how institutions who already have Office 365 Education can get access to Student Advantage, and in part two I looked at how students access the benefit. In this final part I’ll look at what you need to do...
What’s new in Office 365 Education in March 2014
Posted
11 months ago
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markga
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There have been numerous new updates launched in February in Office 365 Education. Here is a list of new functionality. Office 365 Education updates shipped in February 2014: New names: Office Web Apps are now rebranded as Office Online and SkyDrive Pro...
Office 365 Address Book Policies
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over 1 year ago
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jamesbmarshall
Good news! In the next round of updates to Office 365 (Exchange Online) we’ll be adding support for address book policies! The Exchange Team have detailed exactly what this means , but the headlines are: It’s an Exchange Online only feature. It is available...
Using Office 365 ProPlus with RDS, ESD, App-V and VDI
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over 1 year ago
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markga
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This is a very common topic I am getting with my education customers and student labs, etc. My colleague James Baker created this excellent post: Using Student Advantage with Remote Desktop Session Host (RDSH), Virtual Desktop Infrastructure (VDI) , and...
Office 365 Education: Teaching and Learning Scenario - Lync
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over 1 year ago
by
jamesbmarshall
Guest blog post from Gerald Haigh. Gerald writes regularly for the Microsoft Education series of blogs. Ramandeep has been absent from school for five weeks following a road accident. Recovery is slow, and there’s still no firm date for her return. The...
Top 10 Tips for Office 365 Education
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over 1 year ago
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jamesbmarshall
Earlier this year I wrote 10 blog posts, each covering one of my top tips for Office 365 Education. As schools, colleges and universities across the country reconvene for the start of a new term, I thought it would be helpful to summarise my top 10 tips...
What are my SKU names for Office 365 Education and how can I automate the licensing?
Posted
11 months ago
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markga
3
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I was asked by several customers what are some of the new SKU names they can use and where can they find some licensing sample PowerShell scripts. I put together a few matrices covering these along with links to several sample scripts. You also need to...
Top 5 tips for a successful back to school on a budget
Posted
5 months ago
by
AshIddya
It's school time again! A time of mixed emotion – exciting to be back in the thick of things but maybe a little sad that summer is over. Your first day of school might be full of all or many new things: new teachers, new friends, and maybe even a...
What type of hardware do I need for a Dirsync server?
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over 3 years ago
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markga
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This was a question asked by a community college customer deploying Office 365 for Education near Seattle. Dirsync server syncs AD user objects, groups, contacts to Office 365. User objects are synced as MSO IDs and all mail enabled objects are...
Microsoft offers students at eligible educational institutions access to full Office productivity suite for no additional cost
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over 1 year ago
by
jamesbmarshall
As part of our ongoing commitment to education, we are thrilled to announce Student Advantage, a new benefit to qualifying institutions which will make it easy for students to use the latest and best version of full Office at their education institution...
Join us for a live Q&A on Student Advantage
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over 1 year ago
by
jamesbmarshall
Since the recent announcement introducing Student Advantage almost a fortnight ago we’ve been inundated with questions. I’m super excited at the response to the news. As a result, we’d like you to join us for a live Q&A on Student Advantage at midday...
New Office 365 directory synchronization tool shipped called Azure Active Directory Synchronization Services
Posted
4 months ago
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markga
4
Comments
Good news is this long awaited tool has finally shipped and it looks like this is the one tool to leverage for synching local identities to the Azure AD for use with Office 365 Education, Azure services, etc. I put together a quick FAQ about the new AAD...
Can I split OneDrive for Business in the cloud and SharePoint 2013 server sites on prem?
Posted
8 months ago
by
markga
1
Comment
I had a public school in Denver ask me this question since they had a rich student portal on prem but wanted to take advantage of the new 1TB quota which is no cost for faculty, staff and students with the A2 Office 365 Education SKU plans. This is how...
What do I need to do to prepare for Office 365 for Education?
Posted
over 3 years ago
by
markga
1
Comment
Welcome to our new blog! My name is Mark Garcia and I have been blogging on the Three UC Amigos blog for the past 3 years with some great customer reach. I have recently moved to the Office 365 for Education team as a Cloud Architect. I look forward to...
What do you get with Exchange Hybrid?
Posted
over 3 years ago
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markga
4
Comments
This was a question from a university in Utah looking to deploy students on Office 365 and keep their faculty staff with on prem Exchange 2010. What does Exchange Hybrid deployment mean? Exchange Hybrid deployment means you want to maintain rich...
Delve, Branded Office 365 Navigation bar and Shared Computer Activation launched
Posted
4 months ago
by
markga
Delve Delve just launched today and will be rolling out to all Office 365 Education tenants very soon. What is Delve? Delve is a new way of having information presented to you rather than you searching and finding information. It is the first in...
Changing Your Password with Office 365 FAQ
Posted
3 months ago
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markga
1
Comment
I get asked by a lot of customers around what I can do with changing the password in the cloud via Office 365. It is pretty confusing with all the different variables and it took me a bit to parse through the scenarios myself. I wrote a quick FAQ...
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