Microsoft Education in the Cloud

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  • Blog Post: Office 365 for education Deployment Resources

    jamesbmarshall
    Over the last few months I’ve come across some fantastic resources to help customers deploy Office 365 more easily and more efficiently. I decided it was finally time to put a post together to bring all of those resources onto one page – I’ll keep adding to this as I find more useful or up to date material...
    on 5 Oct 2012

  • Blog Post: Deploying and Managing Office 365 ProPlus

    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 Office 365 ProPlus. Deploying and Managing Office...
    on 27 Nov 2013

  • Blog Post: Office 365 Address Book Policies

    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 for enterprise (E) and education (A) plans...
    on 20 Feb 2013

  • Blog Post: Live@edu Upgrade Update

    jamesbmarshall
    By September 2013, all Live@edu customers will need to complete the upgrade to Office 365 for education. Microsoft will start to schedule your institution for the upgrade soon. By completing the upgrade process prior to the scheduled date, you control the upgrade timeline. Live@edu administrative changes...
    on 27 Nov 2012

  • Blog Post: BETT 2012!

    jamesbmarshall
    Yes, it’s finally time to pack away the Christmas decorations, reset the alarm clock for work and return to normality, but there’s no need to be disheartened because it’s almost time for BETT ! (Cue rapturous applause…) Come and see where it’s really happening, over on the public cloud pod at the Microsoft...
    on 3 Jan 2012

  • Blog Post: Live@edu - End of an Era

    jamesbmarshall
    It gives me great pleasure in announcing that we have now completed the Live@edu Upgrade program to Office 365. In the course of just a year, we have upgraded over 9 Million users, equating to 5000 customers; this has been no small feat by our engineering teams, nor our customers and a little celebration...
    on 14 Oct 2013

  • Blog Post: Join us for a live Q&A on Student Advantage

    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 (GMT) on 31/10 on Twitter. Live Q&A We’ll...
    on 29 Oct 2013

  • Blog Post: Live@edu Upgrade to Office 365 for education

    jamesbmarshall
    If you’re a Live@edu customer you might be wondering to yourself where you can find out more information about the upgrade to Office 365 for education. What do I need to plan for? When can I do it? How long does it take? What about SSO, ILM, PCNS, etc.? These are just some of the questions I bet you...
    on 7 Aug 2012

  • Blog Post: Windows Azure Active Directory Connector (Release Candidate)

    jamesbmarshall
    The DirSync team and the FIM Sync team are pleased to announce that we have released the Release Candidate of the Windows Azure Active Directory (AAD) Connector on Connect for pre-release evaluation. This replaces the Office 365 Connector which has earlier been available only through MCS and partner...
    on 14 Aug 2013

  • Blog Post: The new Office 365 Education is here!

    jamesbmarshall
    Yesterday Microsoft launched the next generation of Office 365 , but did you know this included Office 365 Education as well? We first launched Office 365 for education last June and since then we’ve heard inspiring stories from our customers including Kilmarnock College and the University of West London...
    on 28 Feb 2013

  • Blog Post: What happens at the end of the Office 365 for education trial?

    jamesbmarshall
    It’s less than 48 hours since Office 365 for education launched around the world but already I’m building up a nice list of frequently asked questions, first of which is “what happens when my trial expires?”. 30-day Trial Every Office 365 for education customer has to sign up for the 30-day trial before...
    on 29 Jun 2012

  • Blog Post: Still using outlook.com?

    jamesbmarshall
    If you’re a Live@edu customer and you’re still using outlook.com to access your email then this blog post is for you! Microsoft has started inviting institutions using Live@edu to upgrade to Office 365 for education. Academic institutions using http://outlook.com for email access should update their...
    on 1 Aug 2012

  • Blog Post: Introduction Webcast Recordings

    jamesbmarshall
    Where were you? Did you miss out on our first two free webcasts all about Live@edu? Fear not! You can download and listen again to the recordings any time you like, as well as viewing the slides again – check out the slideshow below (embedded directly from SkyDrive!). Recording Links For the first webcast...
    on 8 Nov 2011

  • Blog Post: Is your IT environment ready for Office 365 for education?

    jamesbmarshall
    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 Assessment and Planning (MAP) toolkit can...
    on 2 May 2012

  • Blog Post: Configuring regional settings automatically

    Anonymous Anonymous
    Hello! Hej! હેલ્લો Ciao! Tere! नमस्ते Hallo! No matter where you are in the world it seems there’s a word for “hello”. Of course, it’s not always spelled the same way!   The same can be said for many other words, so making sure that you’ve got the correct regional settings configured is important...
    on 8 Aug 2011

  • Blog Post: FREE Activation Webcast

    Anonymous Anonymous
    Back to school Some of you will already be back to school – others will be dreading looking forward to the start of term next week. Whatever your situation you can’t escape the immutable fact that the start of term is a very busy time of year! The school hall won’t be this empty for long! For those who...
    on 2 Sep 2011

  • Blog Post: Microsoft offers students at eligible educational institutions access to full Office productivity suite for no additional cost

    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 and at home. Student Advantage - Office 365...
    on 15 Oct 2013

  • Blog Post: 5 Top Tips for upgrading from Live@edu to Office 365 for education

    jamesbmarshall
    I like to get out of the office whenever I can, and last week I visited a local junior school to help them with their upgrade from Live@edu to Office 365 for education. This was the first time I had hands on experience of a live upgrade, so here are my 5 top tips for upgrading from Live@edu to Office...
    on 12 Dec 2012

  • Blog Post: SharePoint Online Templates

    jamesbmarshall
    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 work with SharePoint Online in Office 365 for education...
    on 20 Mar 2012

  • Blog Post: Top User Tips #6–Outlook Web App on Mobile Devices

    jamesbmarshall
    We’re over half way through our top user tips series (there are only 10, I promise!) and today we’re looking at the latest Outlook Web App (OWA) and how it works on mobile devices such as tablet PCs and smartphones. When you’re on a traditional device OWA can be a really powerful, browser-based, tool...
    on 7 Mar 2013

  • Blog Post: History Reimagined

    Anonymous Anonymous
    Man on the moon That was, like, 42 years ago, right?   Just imagine how many calculations – complex calculations – had to be performed to ensure every last detail was correct? The scary thing is there is probably more power in your mobile phone these days than they had at all back then. An exaggeration...
    on 25 Aug 2011

  • Blog Post: DirSync Now Supports Filtering

    jamesbmarshall
    Early adopters of Office 365 for education will know that the DirSync tool that you can deploy to synchronise your local Active Directory with Office 365 did not allow you to filter the objects that are synchronised (i.e. by OU, user attribute or domain). The good news is that this has changed, and you...
    on 3 Aug 2012

  • Blog Post: Top Ways to prepare for an Office 365 deployment

    jamesbmarshall
    If you’re looking at deploying Office 365 for education at your institution, but you’re wondering what the best way to prepare is, then look no further! Over on the phenomenally useful Office 365 community there is a wiki page that steps through all the things you need to think about when preparing for...
    on 30 Aug 2012

  • Blog Post: School’s OOF for summer!

    Anonymous Anonymous
    Most (if not all!) schools across the United Kingdom are now off for the summer break and won’t be back until the first week of September. Apart from the most committed students and teachers most people will probably be checking their email accounts less frequently than normal and for many students...
    on 26 Jul 2011

  • Blog Post: FREE Webcast Series

    Anonymous Anonymous
    Between now and Christmas 2011 we’ll be running a free webcast series that we’d like you to be a part of! Over three sessions we’ll be talking about what Microsoft Live@edu is, how you can deploy and migrate to it, and how you can promote it at your institution. There will be lots of opportunities to...
    on 17 Oct 2011