Office 365 Education Blog
Read all about Office 365 Education news, features, tips and tricks to help you stay informed.
Administrator Access to SkyDrive Pro
SkyDrive Pro is an excellent web-based, enterprise ready, personal storage and collaboration tool...
Author: Mark Dunkel Date: 05/15/2013
Virtual Teams Project at NUI Galway – uses Office 365
When we first launched Office 365 for education back in June 2012, UMass Amherst and NUI Galway...
Author: jonnychambers Date: 05/14/2013
Connecting SharePoint Online to CRM Online using BCS
Girish Raja from our CRM team just posted a fairly extensive blog on how to connect SharePoint and...
Author: jonnychambers Date: 05/14/2013
Is there a way users can self-migrate from Google Apps Gmail into Office 365?
I get asked about how to migrate from Google Apps for Education to Office 365 Education every day...
Author: markga Date: 05/11/2013
A Faster, More Effective Way to Communicate With Students Using SharePoint Online and Connect Yard
Once upon a time, e-mail was the fastest and easiest way toreach your student body, particularly...
Author: bill hagen Date: 05/06/2013
Grants for educators using Windows Azure in their curricula
On April 16, Microsoft announced the availability of Windows Azure Infrastructure Services. ...
Author: jonnychambers Date: 05/02/2013
Update the Live@edu SSO Toolkit to maintain single sign-on access on Office 365 Education
** Update October 8, 2014 ** Please check the Office 365 Message Center for the most recent...
Author: Zion Brewer Date: 05/02/2013
Can’t convert domain to federated
I ran into an interesting problem setting up ADFS 2.1 on Windows Server 2012 for Office 365...
Author: markga Date: 04/30/2013
Partner Offering: Live@edu Upgrade Training
Oxford Computer Group, a Microsoft Gold Partner, are running a series of one day training events...
Author: jamesbmarshall Date: 04/16/2013
Alumni Address Book Policy in Office 365 Education
We recently took a look at one of the ways you can address the question of supporting alumni users...
Author: jamesbmarshall Date: 04/15/2013
A quick and easy way to link Moodle to SharePoint with Collabco MyDay
Collabco is a specialist Microsoft Partner focused on SharePoint, Dynamics CRM, Lync, UAG, Mobility...
Author: jonnychambers Date: 04/12/2013
Dell’s OnDemand Migration for Email – Migration with ZeroFOOTPRINT
Next up in our partner blog post series is some great information from long-time partner Dell. A lot...
Author: jonnychambers Date: 03/26/2013
High quality event production with Microsoft Lync and EventBuilder: L+
If you are looking to take your Lync web conferencing to the next level you have to check out...
Author: bill hagen Date: 03/23/2013
BFC Networks tackles SharePoint Online customization for learners
The third partner guest blog post series is from a UK ISV that has a Microsoft SharePoint MVP at the...
Author: jonnychambers Date: 03/19/2013
Two Accounts after Live@edu to Office 365 Upgrade
Check out this video explaining the two accounts users will have after their institution upgrades...
Author: jamesbmarshall Date: 03/18/2013
IT Academy: Office 365 Education Training & Certification
The upgrade process from Live@edu to Office 365 Education has begun, and if your organisation has an...
Author: jamesbmarshall Date: 03/14/2013
Top User Tips #10–Blogging in SharePoint Online
It’s time for our final post in the top user tips series, and today it’s all about blogging in...
Author: jamesbmarshall Date: 03/13/2013
Top User Tips #9–Multiple Co-Authoring in Office Web Apps
In the eighth instalment of our top user tips we looked at Excel Surveys using the Excel Web App,...
Author: jamesbmarshall Date: 03/12/2013
Top User Tips #8–Excel Surveys
We’re into the final three top user tips in our series, and today it’s all about a topic we covered...
Author: jamesbmarshall Date: 03/11/2013
Top User Tips #7–Following Content in SharePoint Online
Having looked at the new social networking features of SharePoint Online back in the 2nd edition of...
Author: jamesbmarshall Date: 03/08/2013
Top User Tips #6–Outlook Web App on Mobile Devices
We’re over half way through our top user tips series (there are only 10, I promise!) and today we’re...
Author: jamesbmarshall Date: 03/07/2013
Top User Tips #5–Multiple Calendar Views in OWA
Hot on the heels of yesterday’s top user tip about SkyDrive Pro we’re back with our fifth instalment...
Author: jamesbmarshall Date: 03/06/2013
Where can I learn and prepare for the new Office 365 Education?
We just launched the new Office 365 Education suite last week so you might be asking where can I...
Author: markga Date: 03/05/2013
Top User Tips #4–Drag ‘n’ Drop in SkyDrive Pro
So far in our top user tips posts we’ve looked at scheduling online meetings with Lync Web...
Author: jamesbmarshall Date: 03/05/2013
Top User Tips #3–Lync Online Web Scheduler
Last week, in part 2 of our top user tips we looked at the social networking features of SharePoint...
Author: jamesbmarshall Date: 03/04/2013
Learning Possibilities LP+4 – now with extra Office 365
Next up in my partner guest blog post series is a UK ISV that has been building solutions on the...
Author: jonnychambers Date: 03/03/2013
Top User Tips #2–SharePoint Online Social Networking
In part 1 of our bite-size top user tips we looked at Offline Access. Today, in part 2, we look at...
Author: jamesbmarshall Date: 03/01/2013
Top User Tips #1–Offline Access
Over the next few days we’ll be posting up some bite-size tips about some of the cool features...
Author: jamesbmarshall Date: 02/28/2013
The new Office 365 Education is here!
Yesterday Microsoft launched the next generation of Office 365, but did you know this included...
Author: jamesbmarshall Date: 02/28/2013
Office 365 Virtual Launch–February 27th
Join us at our Virtual Launch Event on February 27th as we celebrate the availability of a major new...
Author: jamesbmarshall Date: 02/21/2013
Office 365 Address Book Policies
Good news! In the next round of updates to Office 365 (Exchange Online) we’ll be adding...
Author: jamesbmarshall Date: 02/20/2013
Max’s Toolbox for Office365 – SharePoint for young learners
The new Office 365 is just around the corner, interested parties can access a preview today,...
Author: jonnychambers Date: 02/13/2013
Office 365 University
With emphasis of services and devices our priorities are adapting to Office on your terms...
Author: bill hagen Date: 01/29/2013
Contoso Learning Companion – check it out
“The Contoso Learning Companion is a modern Windows 8 application built to work with...
Author: jonnychambers Date: 01/26/2013
Managing Office 365 for education using PowerShell
PowerShell is cool – at least I think it is! We’ve been talking about using PowerShell...
Author: jamesbmarshall Date: 01/23/2013
Office 365 Identity (Azure AD) now working with IT Academy
Hi folks, We have a lot of customers out there in edu-land that are subscribers to not only Office...
Author: jonnychambers Date: 01/22/2013
Configuring Lync Custom Statuses To Support Assessment for Learning
In our last post our guest contributor Mandeep Atwal talked about using Lync client to support...
Author: jamesbmarshall Date: 01/22/2013
Assessment for Learning with Lync Online!
As a technical guy, I spend most of my days talking to customers about how they can deploy Office...
Author: jamesbmarshall Date: 01/21/2013
Decommissioning Exchange 2010 servers in a Hybrid Deployment
Often customers I speak to like the idea of a hybrid deployment in order to keep their staff users...
Author: jamesbmarshall Date: 12/28/2012
Using SharePoint Online & OneNote Web App for better notes, everywhere!
I have always been meticulous awful when it comes to keeping notes; whether it’s actions from...
Author: jamesbmarshall Date: 12/27/2012
5 Top Tips for upgrading from Live@edu to Office 365 for education
I like to get out of the office whenever I can, and last week I visited a local junior school to...
Author: jamesbmarshall Date: 12/12/2012
Accessibility in Office 365 for education
The Microsoft Accessibility team run a wide range of initiatives, including a global network of...
Author: jamesbmarshall Date: 12/11/2012
Live@edu Upgrade Update
By September 2013, all Live@edu customers will need to complete the upgrade to Office 365 for...
Author: jamesbmarshall Date: 11/27/2012
Parent Access to SharePoint Online using PALs
There’s all sorts of information that schools need to provide to parents, and traditionally...
Author: jamesbmarshall Date: 11/26/2012
Office 365 today or wait for the next version
As you may have seen our Office Team is targeting simultaneous releases of the Office 365 service,...
Author: Michael Icore Date: 10/16/2012
Getting started with your upgrade from Live@edu to Office 365 for education
Are you planning and preparing for your upgrade to Office 365 from Live@edu? You may already have...
Author: DerekSeymour Date: 10/10/2012
Office 365 for education Deployment Resources
Over the last few months I’ve come across some fantastic resources to help customers deploy...
Author: jamesbmarshall Date: 10/05/2012
FBA customization with Office 365 and ADFS
First I'd like to give a shout out to Dmitrii who recently provided instructions on updating the FBA...
Author: GregK Date: 10/03/2012