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

(This is a cross-post from the Microsoft On The Issues blog .) How would you react if you learned that an outside agency came to your child’s school and, without your knowledge or consent, collected confidential data about your child and then used the data they gathered to make money for themselves...

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...( read more )

When we first launched Office 365 for education back in June, we did so with an eye to helping transform education. Teachers were asking for a holistic collaboration platform that would allow them – and their students – to easily and safely access the knowledge and tools required for 21st...

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...( read more )

Looking forward to not only warmer weather in Austin at TCEA , but talking education and how Microsoft technologies can help improve teaching & learning. Hope to see you at one of our sessions! Wednesday, February 6 – 11:30-1:00 PM, Room 4BC Office 365: Anywhere, Anytime Communication and...

This is increasingly becoming a very important question school officials should ask. Given that many schools are seeking to save money in their infrastructure by moving to online technology services, administrators and their cloud vendors need to understand their legal obligations to protect the privacy...

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...( read more )

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...( read more )

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...( read more )

There is a lot of talk about next-generation learning, but what does that really mean? We talk about how kids need 21st century skills to succeed in higher education and careers, but we are well into the century, and if we are to be preparing students for the future, shouldn’t we be working in...

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...( read more )

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...( read more )

I have always been meticulous awful when it comes to keeping notes; whether it’s actions from meetings, shopping lists, things to do, I just seem unable to get it right. I’ve tried it all – sticky notes, notepads, email flags, writing on the back of my...( read more )

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...( read more )

The Microsoft Accessibility team   run a wide range of initiatives, including a global network of a ccessibility centres , an online accessibility tutorial programme for Windows, Office and Office 365, which includes Office 365 for education. They...( read more )

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...( read more )

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...( read more )

Have you seen the good news?  Skype and Messenger are coming together.  Soon millions of Messenger users will be able to reach their Messenger friends on Skype.  By updating to Skype, Messenger users can instant message and video call their...( read more )

We are excited to be in Denver, Colorado this week attending the annual EDUCAUSE conference and looking forward to the many conversations and showing off the new Windows 8 ! Come visit us at our booth #933 to see hands-on demos, check out new Windows 8 devices, attend our learning sessions and enter...

Can you keep a secret? How about your cloud services provider? It is a simple couple of questions. However, it takes thoughtful planning and the customer’s perspective to deliver enterprise-class, trustworthy solutions for the cloud. In education, protecting privacy cannot be an afterthought...

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...( read more )

If you are a UK customer and in the midst of planning and preparing for your upgrade to Office 365 from Live@edu , then why not check out this free webinar from Microsoft partner Salford Software . They are running a series of webinars that discuss the...( read more )

If you’re in the UK and can get to our London offices on December 4th then you might want to come along to Oxford Computer Group’s free event all about identity and access management – this is particularly relevant for Office 365 for education customers...( read more )

If you’ve never used SharePoint before, and you’re now exploring your options with SharePoint Online you might want to know about some simple tips to get you started! Where are the Web Apps? Out of the box, SharePoint Online behaves a little bit like...( read more )