This was a question asked by a community college customer deploying Office 365 for Education near Seattle. Dirsync server syncs AD user objects, groups, contacts to Office 365. User objects are synced as MSO IDs and all mail enabled objects are...

In partnership with Microsoft and complementary technology partners, Oxford Computer Group (OCG) is again hosting the European Summit for Microsoft Identity and Access. This year the theme is "Managing Identity and Access on-premise and in the Cloud"...

  If you are new to PowerShell or the Office 365 specific tenant cmdlets in PowerShell, here is a nice tool called the PowerShell Command Builder. It allows you to visually build your Office 365 tenant PowerShell scripts.  It doesn’t have Exchange...

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...

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...

  This was asked by a university in Southern California. Here are some new tools to help you troubleshoot your ADFS and your Office 365 setup: ADFS Connectivity Analyzer tool You can also use the Remote Connectivity Analyzer to help you troubleshoot...

Wouldn’t it be great if you could get rid of that pile of paper, that book or binder, that holds all the bookings for a particular room or piece of equipment? Well, with Live@edu you can because resource mailboxes are the best way to handle room bookings...

Today Curious Greg is going to Houston to visit the Johnson Space Center. Before he leaves he wanted to share the final configuration pieces to the hybrid lab. When we last left the lab we configured our virtual directories. Today we will start with address...

One of my customers asked me this the other day, “When we move to Exchange Online and no longer have an on-premises Exchange environment how do we support Line of Business (LOB) applications that need to send email messages”. In this scenario you can...

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...

  This was a question from a university in New Orleans looking to move to Office 365 for Education.  There are two PowerShell scenarios applicable to Office 365 for Education. The first scenario is leveraging PowerShell for overall management...

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...

  The yellow man in the hat has been breathing down on me lately to continue my exploits. Today I’ll cover how we setup trusts and start to configure a hybrid Exchange environment. In my lab I have a CAS/HT server and a MBX server both are Exchange...

In part II of our series I’ll be discussing Directory Synchronization (DirSync). This is where Curious Greg can get into a lot of mischief. See with DirSync everything in the connected on-premises forest is synchronized to the cloud.      ...

I remember as a kid those days I would read Curious George and wonder how did he end up there. Well usually the man in the yellow hat had something to do with that. I don’t have a man in the yellow hat but I starting thinking about helping customers ...

I had several ADFS and Single Sign On (SSO) questions from a large university in northern California proceeding with Office 365 for Education for faculty, staff and students. What servers do I need to accommodate single sign on (SSO) aka Federated...

Hi folks, Around a year ago,the Kentucky Department of Education (KDE) rolled out Live@edu to their 174 school districts to much acclaim. We have just completed the formal case study on this fantastic state-wide implementation. I know you will all...

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...

Schools and universities sometimes ask me to tell them all about how moving onto our cloud offerings like Office 365 , Live@edu , Azure , Dynamics CRM Online , and so on, can support their green initiatives. This is a story I am always excited to tell...

  This was a question from a university in Utah looking to deploy students on Office 365 and keep their faculty staff with on prem Exchange 2010. What does Exchange Hybrid deployment mean? Exchange Hybrid deployment means you want to maintain rich...

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...

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...

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...

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...

  Hi! Thanks for coming. My name is Greg Katz and was also part of the three man team the UC Amigos in Education and responsible for post at 3 UC Amigos . Though it’s sad to leave such a great following Mark Garcia and I are excited to share our...