This Thursday, 1st March (St. David’s day, if you’re Welsh!), and again on the 6th of March, we’ll be running a webcast where you can learn about some of the different methods and tools there are to aid your migration to the cloud!

The webcast will cover both services at a high level and there’ll be plenty of opportunity to ask questions!

Session 1

Register today, FREE, online for our first webcast on March 1st 2012 at 12pm GMT.

Session 2

Register today, FREE, online for our second webcast on March 6th 2012 at 3pm GMT.

Already using Live@edu or Office 365?

How did you do it and what challenges did you face? Come along to the webcast and share your migration tips!

If you can’t make it that’s no problem, let us know how you did it in the comments below!

This Thursday, 1st March (St. David’s day, if you’re Welsh!), and again on the 6th of March, we’ll be running a webcast where you can learn about some of the different methods and tools there are to aid your migration to the cloud!

The webcast will cover both services at a high level and there’ll be plenty of opportunity to ask questions!

Session 1

Session 2

You can also download the hand-outs from both sessions:

• Moving to the cloud
• Office 365 for education cheat sheet

Already using Live@edu or Office 365?

How did you do it and what challenges did you face? Come along to the webcast and share your migration tips!

If you can’t make it that’s no problem, let us know how you did it in the comments below!

Working with Office 365 you have to start using new tools to do familiar things. I was asked the other day about setting up permissions for delegated permission on a calendar by a customer. I first thought about ExFolders and realized that wouldn’t be an option. Then I looked at MessageOps. They have some great free tools to use with Exchange Online. There was some prep work but I was able to setup the calendar permissions. After you setup your remote module for powershell you need to do the following:

1. Install EWS API Module http://www.microsoft.com/download/en/details.aspx?id=13480

2. Download MessageOps tools - http://www.messageops.com/software/messageops-microsoft-online-powershell-extensions

3. Very important after you run the remotesigned script from MessageOps is to provide EWS impersonation

I had some problems with finding autodiscover service but once I had this resolved all worked.

In my case I only wanted to test how this works. I configured a workstation and looked at the calendar permissions. I needed to add Aaron Ward to be my delegate. I used the following command:

I checked the client and I know have permissions as so:

Please let me know if anyone else has tested these tools. Thanks.

Moodlerooms, Inc., has developed an integration connecting Microsoft’s Live@edu services and Moodle, the world’s most widely-used Learning Management System. With this integration, Moodlerooms makes the rich functionality of Live@edu directly accessible within the Moodle 2.0 and 1.9 environments via single sign-on.

The plug-in for Moodle allows users to log into courses using their Windows Live ID; view and compose emails and calendar events, chat using Windows Live Messenger and search using Bing™ all from within a Moodle class site.

Microsoft’s Frank Chiappone talks about the new plugin.

You can download the free plugin directly from Moodle.org. Give it a go today!

Are you using Live@edu with Moodle?

Are you currently using the Live Services Plugin? How do you use use Live@edu with your Moodle environment? Let us know in the comments!

The Live@edu plug-in for Moodle developed by Moodlerooms was officially released today to the Moodle community. The plug-in integrates email, calendar, instant messaging and Bing right into the Moodle classroom environment. This Moodlerooms release works for both Moodle 2.0 as well as Moodle 1.9.

The free plug-in is available for download here.

The plug-in built by Moodlerooms integrates email, calendar, instant messaging and Bing right into the Moodle classroom environment, making it simple and easy for students and teachers to share ideas, work on projects together and have all the information important to them in one place after signing in only once.

With this integration, Moodlerooms will make the rich functionality of Live@edu directly accessible within the Moodle 2.0 and 1.9 environments via single sign-on, further enabling teachers and students to access the quality, enterprise-level tools they need to effectively teach and learn online.

This is yet another great example of the many projects across Microsoft that improves interoperability with Open Source technologies and illustrates a broader commitment to openness on our platforms.

Enjoy!