• Synchronize passwords for federated users to reduce downtime in case of an emergency

    Posted 8 months ago
    by Zion Brewer}
    Office 365 now supports Password Synchronization as a temporary backup for Single Sign-On (federation). From the TechNet Wiki, "At General Availability, the Password Synchronization feature did not support the synchronization of passwords for...

  • Can I toggle on and off Sites, Newsfeed, OneDrive inside of SharePoint Online?

    Posted 8 months ago
    by markga}
    This is a very popular request in education where you may want to hide a subset of SharePoint Online functionality such as newsfeeds or sites for example. The good news is we now just shipped this update to SharePoint Online that provides this capability...

  • Mobile Entrée 365 for SharePoint released!!

    Posted 8 months ago
    by bill hagen}
    The Office 365 Education team is very excited that H3 Solutions Mobile Entrée 365 is now available in the Office Store . EDU Office 365 customers obtain incremental value from their SharePoint Online while being productive while mobile. Office...

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

    Posted 8 months ago
    by 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...

  • Can I split OneDrive for Business in the cloud and SharePoint 2013 server sites on prem?

    Posted 8 months ago
    by markga}
    I had a public school in Denver ask me this question since they had a rich student portal on prem but wanted to take advantage of the new 1TB quota which is no cost for faculty, staff and students with the A2 Office 365 Education SKU plans. This is how...