Microsoft Education in the Cloud

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  • Blog Post: Top 5 tips for a successful back to school on a budget

    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 new school!? Whether a fresher in school or in college...
    on 18 Aug 2014

  • Blog Post: Yammer available with academic plans beginning today!

    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 highly connected tools and information that both...
    on 8 Jul 2014

  • Blog Post: Office for iPad: Some Common Questions Answered

    AshIddya
    Further to our recent announcement that Office for iPad is now available , I just wanted to take this opportunity to share some additional information that hopefully addresses some of the queries I have been receiving via email and Twitter over the last week around both the apps and how best to license...
    on 7 Apr 2014

  • Blog Post: Microsoft announces Office for iPad

    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 Office globally we are now delighted to share that...
    on 28 Mar 2014

  • Blog Post: Office 365 Education in the Classroom eBook (now available)

    AshIddya
    This new eBook, Office 365 Education in the Classroom, concentrates almost exclusively on how Office 365 Education can help the teacher and the student in their day to day work. We look at a whole list of teaching and learning scenarios, describing some of the ways in which hard- working teachers might...
    on 11 Feb 2014

  • Blog Post: Student Advantage Deployment Guide

    AshIddya
    Student Advantage is a volume licensing benefit where students get Office 365 ProPlus at no additional cost, provided institutions meet the following criteria: 1. Institution has an EES agreement or an OVS-ES agreement 2. Licenses 100% of Faculty/Staff organization wide for Office (i.e. Office 365 ProPlus...
    on 10 Feb 2014

  • Blog Post: Office 365 Education Exchange Online mailbox quotas are doubling to 50GB FREE

    jamesbmarshall
    It’s turning out to be a bumper week for Office 365 Education updates. Earlier this week it was announced that SkyDrive Pro was increasing the default storage quota from 7 GB to 25 GB and starting from now Office 365 Education Exchange Online mailbox quotas are doubling to 50 GB FREE! When will I see...
    on 30 Aug 2013

  • Blog Post: Office Mobile available for iPhone and Android Phones

    jamesbmarshall
    Over on the Office blog there have been a couple of announcements. If you’ve got an Office 365 subscription (A3 or A4, or the Office ProPlus subscription and others ) then you can now get Office Mobile for Android Phones and the iPhone ! Office Mobile is the official companion to Microsoft Office. Word...
    on 31 Jul 2013

  • Blog Post: Banish Attachments Forever!

    jamesbmarshall
    Please see attached… Ok, put your hands up. Who still sends files as attachments in their email? Come on, be honest! I’m guilty of it myself – just ask my boss, after I dropped a 7MB “email bomb” on him recently. Despite having both SharePoint Online and SkyDrive at my fingertips there are times I find...
    on 13 Feb 2012

  • Blog Post: How do I get Student Advantage in Office 365 Education?

    jamesbmarshall
    With a little under a month until Student Advantage becomes available (that's December 1st, put it in the diary !) one of the questions I am getting asked most frequently is: how do I get Student Advantage in Office 365 Education? I’m going to cover this off in two posts, this first one to discuss how...
    on 30 Oct 2013

  • Blog Post: Parent Access to SharePoint Online using PALs

    jamesbmarshall
    There’s all sorts of information that schools need to provide to parents, and traditionally this has resulted in copious amounts of paper being given to students to put in their bag, often never to be seen again! Increasingly schools have turned to their websites, or even social networking sites like...
    on 26 Nov 2012

  • Blog Post: SkyDrive and Office Web Apps

    jamesbmarshall
    For schools, colleges and universities looking for a powerful tool for their students to help them better collaborate on group projects, SkyDrive and Office Web Apps is the ideal solution. Those looking for a web based solution often think about Google Docs. While tools such as this may work well for...
    on 30 Jan 2012

  • Blog Post: Action required: Changes to Live@edu SSO Toolkit

    Anonymous Anonymous
    Important Changes As per the recent posting on Outlook Live Answers , there are some changes that will need to be made if you are using SSO. The URL used to validate a Windows Live ID is changing, so any single sign-on solutions that are built using the Microsoft Live@edu SSO Toolkit must be modified...
    on 26 Aug 2011

  • Blog Post: Three new UK universities adopting Microsoft Live@edu

    Anonymous Anonymous
    Heading to Brighton, Plymouth or Huddersfield this year? Then you’re in for a treat at these three universities as well as many other academic institutions will be rolling out Microsoft Live@edu to their students starting this academic year . Great news! Are you? Are you rolling out Live@edu ready for...
    on 16 Aug 2011

  • Blog Post: New Lower Prices For Office 365

    jamesbmarshall
    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 add customers, the cost to run Office 365 becomes...
    on 15 Mar 2012

  • Blog Post: Dynamic Distribution Groups–Part 2

    Anonymous Anonymous
    Now you see me… Now you don’t! In part one of this blog-couplet I talked about how you can very simply create a dynamic distribution group using a little bit of PowerShell. We also looked at how you can test to make sure that the right people will get an email when you send a mail to that DDG. In this...
    on 6 Oct 2011

  • Blog Post: How do I get Student Advantage in Office 365 Education? (Part 2)

    jamesbmarshall
    In our last post , we looked at how an institution can associate Student Advantage licences with an existing Office 365 Education tenant. Today, we'll answer the question “how do I get Student Advantage in Office 365 Education?” from a student perspective. Once an institution has allocated the Office...
    on 4 Nov 2013

  • Blog Post: Managing Office 365 for education using PowerShell

    jamesbmarshall
    PowerShell is cool – at least I think it is! We’ve been talking about using PowerShell to manage Live@edu since the early days of Exchange Labs , and several times since. As more and more customers complete the upgrade from Live@edu to Office 365 for education I thought it would be a good time to talk...
    on 23 Jan 2013

  • Blog Post: Top User Tips #7–Following Content in SharePoint Online

    jamesbmarshall
    Having looked at the new social networking features of SharePoint Online back in the 2nd edition of our top user tips it’s time to look at following sites that interest you, too. If you find a SharePoint Online site in your institution that you want to access again, you can follow it to keep it handy...
    on 8 Mar 2013

  • Blog Post: Assessment for Learning with Lync Online!

    jamesbmarshall
    As a technical guy, I spend most of my days talking to customers about how they can deploy Office 365 for education, or answering questions about what the service can do. In this guest post, our resident star Mandeep Atwal talks about how schools are actually using Lync Online in the classroom. Today...
    on 21 Jan 2013

  • Blog Post: Updated: Webcast: Migrating to Live@edu and Office 365 for education

    jamesbmarshall
    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 both services at a high level and there’ll be...
    on 27 Feb 2012

  • Blog Post: Snow Day? Try Office 365 for education on for size!

    jamesbmarshall
    If you’re in the UK (other countries are available) you’ll probably look out of your window this morning and see something like this: Teachers and pupils up and down the country tune into their local radio stations eagerly awaiting news of school closures, crossing fingers and toes that theirs is on...
    on 18 Jan 2013

  • Blog Post: Configuring Lync Custom Statuses To Support Assessment for Learning

    jamesbmarshall
    In our last post our guest contributor Mandeep Atwal talked about using Lync client to support assessment for learning strategy in the classroom. I thought this was a great post as Lync Online is part of Office 365 for education and users can use Lync client on the desktop to communicate with others...
    on 22 Jan 2013

  • Blog Post: Scripting License Assignment in Office 365 for education

    jamesbmarshall
    As more and more education institutions take advantage of Office 365 for education’s powerful capabilities a question that comes up is: how can you script license assignment for your staff, students and alumni so that you don’t have to manually go through the process each time you enroll new users? Thankfully...
    on 13 Aug 2012

  • Blog Post: Customer Story: Achieving consistent SSO with AD FS 2.0 and Office 365 for education

    jamesbmarshall
    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 Office 365 for education has to offer. For some...
    on 18 May 2012