Microsoft has been investing in a comprehensive privacy program, consumer education and policy initiatives for more than a decade. Our customers tell us they expect strong privacy protections to be built into our products, devices and services, and for...

As part of our on-going commitment to add value to the education community we serve, we are thrilled to be working with Janet to provide additional support and services to their user base. Janet provides and develops a network infrastructure to support...

SkyDrive Pro is an excellent web-based, enterprise ready, personal storage and collaboration tool for faculty, staff, and students. Unlike the consumer version of SkyDrive, SkyDrive Pro provides institutions with rich features to remain compliant. Technically...

When we first launched Office 365 for education back in June 2012, UMass Amherst and NUI Galway recorded a showcase video with us, highlighting their use of our Office 365 platform . If you have not seen that, check it out ! Following on from this...

Girish Raja from our CRM team just posted a fairly extensive blog on how to connect SharePoint and CRM Online using Business Connectivity Services (BCS). Check it out! Now why would an education customer want to do this?  I can think of a number...

  I get asked about how to migrate from Google Apps for Education to Office 365 Education every day from my education customers. There are several ways to do this: native Office 365 IMAP migration tools, 3rd party IMAP migration tools, 3rd party...

Once upon a time, e-mail was the fastest and easiest way to reach your student body, particularly when the message contained an attachment such as a photo, document or slide deck. However, today it's one of the last places students check for something...

On April 16, Microsoft announced the availability of Windows Azure Infrastructure Services .  This new service now makes it possible for customers to move applications into the cloud. Microsoft is now the only cloud provider with fully supported...

The Live@edu SSO Toolkit 4.5 Update is supported as an interim solution in Office 365 Education until December 31, 2014 to give you more time to implement federation after the upgrade. This new update enables the Live@edu SSO Toolkit to continue working...

I ran into an interesting problem setting up ADFS 2.1 on Windows Server 2012 for Office 365 federation. It is now a supported server OS for ADFS and Office 365 as long as you run the Azure Active Directory PowerShell.  ADFS setup worked flawlessly...

Oxford Computer Group, a Microsoft Gold Partner, are running a series of one day training events that cover how to complete your upgrade from Live@edu to Office 365 for education. In their own words: “This course provides an introduction to the process...

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...

Collabco is a specialist Microsoft Partner focused on SharePoint, Dynamics CRM, Lync, UAG, Mobility and deliver the following services: Technology Consultancy, IT Strategy Consultancy, Development, Project implementation, Support and Training.  They...

Increasingly, institutions look for ways to keep in touch with their students after they graduate. This can be for many reasons, and it’s not unusual for a requirement of any email solution to be that it should support the creation of accounts for alumni...

Next up in our partner blog post series is some great information from long-time partner Dell.  A lot of customers ask us how they can migrate their email into Exchange Online from other services – well read on to find out more :) -- Office 365 is...

If you are looking to take your Lync web conferencing to the next level you have to check out EventBuilder's new L+ offering. Simply put it enhances Lync to provide more functionality for online learning such as: advanced Registration, Archiving (online...

The third partner guest blog post series is from a UK ISV that has a Microsoft SharePoint MVP at the helm, Alex Pearce .  I had the pleasure of presenting with Alex at our recent Microsoft Global Education Partner Summit.  Alex, over to you...

Check out this video explaining the two accounts users will have after their institution upgrades from Live@edu to Office 365 Education.

The upgrade process from Live@edu to Office 365 Education has begun, and if your organisation has an IT Academy subscription then you have access to the Office 365 training material and the ability to gain a Microsoft certification! Through using the...

It’s time for our final post in the top user tips series, and today it’s all about blogging in SharePoint Online. You might also want to check out top tip #2 about social networking , and top tip #7 about following content in SharePoint Online as well...

In the eighth instalment of our top user tips we looked at Excel Surveys using the Excel Web App , and today we’re going to look at the co-authoring features that can help you analyse that data, brainstorm ideas, and work collaboratively with your classmates...

We’re into the final three top user tips in our series , and today it’s all about a topic we covered back in August last year : Excel Surveys! Available in both Office 365 Education, and the consumer SkyDrive service, Excel Surveys have a huge potential...

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...

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...

Hot on the heels of yesterday’s top user tip about SkyDrive Pro we’re back with our fifth instalment all about multiple calendar views in OWA (Outlook Web App). This isn’t a feature that’s new to Office 365 Education, but it’s a question I get asked about...