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Office for Android tablet, OneDrive for Mac sync preview, Outlook for iOS and Android now available
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4 days ago
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markga
Three big announcements today: Office for Android tablet This is a great addition to the Office 365 ProPlus suite where you can get Excel, Word, PowerPoint on your Android tablet now. Word for Android tablet Excel for Android tablet PowerPoint for Android...
Office 365 and Moodle integration
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13 days ago
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markga
I get asked quite a bit about our Moodle integration with Office 365. The good news is starting today there is now a fantastic Office 365 and Moodle integration story. Moodle for Office 365 integration Here are some talking points about the offering...
Office 365 Video coming to Office 365 Education
Posted
18 days ago
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markga
This is an awesome addition to Office 365 tenants and Office 365 Education customers and is in the process of rolling out to tenants very shortly It is the first of our NextGen portal offerings in SharePoint Online which are coming. What...
Migrate up to 150MB attachments to Exchange Online
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19 days ago
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markga
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Great news effective now we announced that we have upped the attachment migration limit size to 150MB attachments. This migration attachment limit was previously 25MB which caused a lot of attachment mitigation prior to migration if your on prem quota...
SAML 2.0 and Shibb support for Office 365 ProPlus and Office 2013 standalone - available in tech preview
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2 months ago
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markga
This is a common ask in education: When will OneDrive for Business folder sync client, Office 365 ProPlus/Outlook 2013 and Lync 2013 support SAML 2.0 and Shibboleth authentication with Office 365 Education? The great news is support for this is...
Office 365 ProPlus for Faculty and Staff benefit launched today
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2 months ago
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markga
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Great news! We launched the new benefit for faculty, staff and teachers. If your education institution is eligible , you can now provide the Office 365 ProPlus offering to your faculty and staff. Here is a quick FAQ on the announcement: Where can...
New Outlook for Mac version available from Office 365 portal
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2 months ago
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markga
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Where do I grab the new Outlook for Mac? From your Mac, grab the new Outlook for Mac bits here . (note: PCs will show PC Office versions) What are some new features? Better performance and reliability as a result of a new threading model and database...
Shared Computer Activation with Office 365 ProPlus benefit for students/faculty/staff
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2 months ago
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markga
This is a popular topic I get with education customers. I put together a quick scenario guideline for you: What does Shared Computer Activation (SCA) provide me with Office 365 ProPlus benefit? SCA allows you to install the Office 365 ProPlus bits...
Changing Your Password with Office 365 FAQ
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3 months ago
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markga
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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...
Academic SKU changes from A to E change in name only
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4 months ago
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markga
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There is a name change currently being rolled out to all Academic tenants where we are changing the A2, A3, A4 SKU display name to E1, E3, E4 respectively. The good news is there is no impact to PowerShell scripts or anything functionality or capability...
New Office 365 ProPlus benefits for students and faculty/staff
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4 months ago
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markga
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More great news for students and faculty staff. Launching today we have the Office 365 ProPlus benefit available as a new student ‘sign up yourself’ option. In addition, today we are announcing that you can use the same qualifying benefit...
New Office 365 directory synchronization tool shipped called Azure Active Directory Synchronization Services
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4 months ago
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markga
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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...
Delve, Branded Office 365 Navigation bar and Shared Computer Activation launched
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4 months ago
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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...
Top 5 tips for a successful back to school on a budget
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5 months ago
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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...
Customizable launch materials to announce Student Advantage at your school
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6 months ago
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Zion Brewer
Are you getting ready to make the Student Advantage benefit available to your school or university? Visit Office.com/GetOffice365Resources to download a wide selection of easily customizable emails, print materials, templates, and more designed...
Yammer available with academic plans beginning today!
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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...
Yammer Enterprise for Office 365 Education now available!
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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...
Office 365 Roadmap site now available
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7 months ago
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markga
This is great new site we just launched showing all the new features and upcoming features of Office 365 listed here: Show features launched, rolling out, and in development (upcoming features) in your tenant. Drilldown descriptions of the feature. Visit...
Is there an Office 365 End User Adoption Kit?
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7 months ago
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markga
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I have many education customers deploying Office 365 this summer while school is out. I was asked what we have to prepare their end users for training, items to create buzz (posters, flyers, emails), how to prepare help desk, etc. The good news...
OneDrive for Business FAQ
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8 months ago
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markga
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I get asked a lot of questions about OneDrive for Business from customers so I have put together a quick FAQ to help: How many OneDrives are there? I see one in Windows 8 and then I see one with Office 365 Education. I also see SkyDrive and SkyDrive...
Synchronize passwords for federated users to reduce downtime in case of an emergency
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8 months ago
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Zion Brewer
Office 365 now supports Password Synchronization as a temporary backup for Single Sign-On (federation). From the TechNet Wiki, "At General Availability, the Password Synchronization feature did not support the synchronization of passwords for...
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...
Mobile Entrée 365 for SharePoint released!!
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8 months ago
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bill hagen
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The Office 365 Education team is very excited that H3 Solutions Mobile Entrée 365 is now available in the Office Store . EDU Office 365 customers obtain incremental value from their SharePoint Online while being productive while mobile. Office...
Can I create a single PowerShell session for Lync Online, SharePoint Online, Azure AD, and Exchange Online?
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8 months ago
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markga
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The answer is yes you can however I couldn’t find this documented so I decided to write a post on how to create a Super Office 365 PowerShell script to get connected to all four PowerShell services in a single PowerShell session with Office 365 Education...
Can I split OneDrive for Business in the cloud and SharePoint 2013 server sites on prem?
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8 months ago
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markga
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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...
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