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  • Blog Post: Can I create a single PowerShell session for Lync Online, SharePoint Online, Azure AD, and Exchange Online?

    markga
    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. What PowerShell options do I have for Office...
    on 8 May 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 365 Shared Mailbox Tool

    jamesbmarshall
    In Office 365 for education, as it stands today, creating shared mailboxes involves using Windows PowerShell which, to the uninitiated, can be complex task. As an aside, it’s worth getting to grips with PowerShell as it’s a great way to aid managing the service! Shared mailboxes are useful for generic...
    on 26 Jun 2012

  • Blog Post: Dynamic Distribution Groups–Part 1

    Anonymous Anonymous
    Hear, ye! Hear, ye! From secondary schools to universities there are lots of reasons why you’d want to send email to lots of users at once. Maybe it’s the meeting request for the weekly staff briefing, or a project deadline to your tutor group. Dynamic distribution groups are a great way to manage communication...
    on 5 Oct 2011

  • Blog Post: Get a Room! Enable Room Finder with Room List Distribution Groups

    Zion Brewer
    If your Exchange Online (Office 365) or Outlook Live (Live@edu) users are already using Room Mailboxes to schedule meetings in conference rooms, auditoriums, labs or other facilities, then why not enable Room Finder for your Microsoft Office Outlook 2010 clients by configuring Room List Distribution...
    on 7 Nov 2011

  • 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: Office 365 Education: Shared Calendars

    jamesbmarshall
    Guest post by Gerald Haigh. Gerald writes regularly for the education series of blogs. Summer Term 2012, and your year eleven groups were on study leave. They were mainly a diligent, hard-working lot, and you smile when you think of them. So keen were they, in fact, that some of them couldn’t keep away...
    on 30 Sep 2013

  • Blog Post: Service Update: Sender Photo Enabled by Default

    Zion Brewer
    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 case a school requires that it be disabled). In the...
    on 18 Feb 2012

  • Blog Post: BES integration with Exchange Online in Education

    Michael Icore
    We have had a lot of interest from our education customers on integration with BES in Exchange Online in Office 365. This is something that has not been available in Live@EDU in the past. RIM is making their BlackBerry Could Services for Microsoft Office 365 available at no cost. While the general availability...
    on 14 Oct 2011

  • Blog Post: The Start of my Office 365 Education Journey

    jamesbmarshall
    Guest post from Gerald Haigh. Gerald writes regularly for the Microsoft Education series of blogs. One of the first things I did when I decided to learn more about the capabilities of Office 365 Education was to have a meeting with Alex Pearce of BFC Networks . Alex is always good value – generous with...
    on 10 Sep 2013

  • Blog Post: Using more than 1 Windows Live ID at a time…

    Anonymous Anonymous
    Hotmail users, rejoice! A comment that I get quite often is that it’s “not possible to user more than one Live ID at a time”; that is to say that you can’t be logged into Live@edu at the same time as being logged into Windows Live Hotmail. That’s half true. Let me explain… Live@edu can provide the great...
    on 9 Aug 2011

  • Blog Post: What is the difference between Exchange Online Unified Messaging and Exchange 2010 on prem Unified Messaging?

    markga
    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 Exchange 2010 on premises UM offering.  It offers...
    on 23 Mar 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: 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: Dynamic Distribution Groups

    Anonymous Anonymous
    Mass Mail Dynamic distribution groups (DDGs) are a great way to manage groups in Live@edu, especially ones where the recipient list might change frequently or unpredictably. For example, you might want an “All Pupils” distribution group that sends a mail to every pupil in the school, but what about pupils...
    on 1 Sep 2011

  • Blog Post: PowerShell–THE best way to manage Live@edu

    Anonymous Anonymous
    All the leaves are brown… Ok, so maybe they’re still a little green. Either way the busy summer holidays are now over and the long march to Christmas begins. Naturally this means that network managers have nothing to do for 3 months, right? For those who have just deployed Live@edu, or for those who...
    on 16 Sep 2011

  • Blog Post: Calendar Publishing in Live@edu

    Anonymous Anonymous
    So, you want to publish your calendar? In my last post I talked about how you could set up sharing free/busy information between two Live@edu environments but what about sharing your whole calendar with someone? When you click share in the calendar screen, by default, the options to publish the calendar...
    on 8 Sep 2011

  • Blog Post: What type of migration throughput can I get when migrating to Office 365?

    markga
    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 an excellent whitepaper called the Exchange Online...
    on 23 Apr 2012

  • Blog Post: Alumni Address Book Policy in Office 365 Education

    jamesbmarshall
    We recently took a look at one of the ways you can address the question of supporting alumni users in Office 365 Education, and I mentioned that you would need to look to the new Office 365 Education in order to provide custom address book policies in order to restrict access to your institution GAL...
    on 15 Apr 2013

  • Blog Post: Supervision Policies for Exchange Online in Office 365 for education

    jamesbmarshall
    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 supervision policy. Out of the box, those policies...
    on 2 Mar 2012

  • Blog Post: Sharing Free/Busy across the cloud

    Anonymous Anonymous
    Are you free? More and more institutions are beginning to realise the importance of connected, collaborative working, and the value of enterprise email and deciding whether 1, or many tenancies is the right option can be tough. Sometimes, for very good reasons, you need to split up your users into different...
    on 7 Sep 2011

  • Blog Post: How do YOU pronounce FOPE? An Introduction

    Zion Brewer
    Forefront Online Protection for Exchange (FOPE) is the default messaging security solution for Exchange Online (Office 365) and Outlook Live (Live@edu)! The transition to FOPE for existing Outlook Live domains is nearly complete, and all new tenants are provisioning with FOPE from from the start. Both...
    on 27 Oct 2011

  • Blog Post: Top User Tips #1–Offline Access

    jamesbmarshall
    Over the next few days we’ll be posting up some bite-size tips about some of the cool features of Office 365 Education. If you’ve got any tips you’d like to share with us get in touch in the comments! One of the great enhancements of the new Office 365 Education is the offline access feature of the Outlook...
    on 28 Feb 2013

  • Blog Post: Decommissioning Exchange 2010 servers in a Hybrid Deployment

    jamesbmarshall
    Often customers I speak to like the idea of a hybrid deployment in order to keep their staff users on their local Exchange servers, while taking advantage of Exchange Online in Office 365 for education for their students and maintaining a rich co-existence between the two environments. With the continued...
    on 28 Dec 2012

  • Blog Post: Where can I learn and prepare for the new Office 365 Education?

    markga
    We just launched the new Office 365 Education suite last week so you might be asking where can I learn about the new offering from an Office 365 Administrator/IT perspective or where can I find new tools to help me onboard? We have just added some new readiness tools and training content which I have...
    on 5 Mar 2013