Office 365 Education Blog
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Partner Event: Live@edu to Office 365
If you are a UK customer and in the midst of planning and preparing for your upgrade to Office 365...
Author: jamesbmarshall Date: 10/03/2012
Federation Metadata Update Tool should be installed with every ADFS and Office 365 deployment
If you are deploying ADFS with Office 365, we have a federation metadata update tool available which...
Author: markga Date: 10/02/2012
Partner Event: Benefits of Identity and Access Management
If you’re in the UK and can get to our London offices on December 4th then you might want to...
Author: jamesbmarshall Date: 10/02/2012
Webcast series: Office 365 Education
Do you wish to move your institution to the cloud with Office 365 Education or try out the services,...
Author: DerekSeymour Date: 09/24/2012
First Steps with SharePoint Online
If you’ve never used SharePoint before, and you’re now exploring your options with SharePoint Online...
Author: jamesbmarshall Date: 09/21/2012
Webcast: Office 365 Master Class
Are you looking to move to Office 365, but you’re not too sure on how?Quest are offering a...
Author: jamesbmarshall Date: 09/11/2012
Are you using your Academic Agreement to its full potential?
Did you know that if your organisation has an Academic Agreement in place with Microsoft, you can...
Author: jamesbmarshall Date: 09/11/2012
IT Academy: Office 365 Training & Certification
The upgrade process from Live@edu to Office 365 has begun! And if your organisation has an IT...
Author: jamesbmarshall Date: 09/11/2012
Partner Webcast: Planning Your Upgrade
Do you want to get ahead of the game and plan your upgrade to Office 365, but you’re not sure...
Author: jamesbmarshall Date: 09/04/2012
Top Ways to prepare for an Office 365 deployment
If you’re looking at deploying Office 365 for education at your institution, but you’re...
Author: jamesbmarshall Date: 08/30/2012
Georgia State University Switches to Microsoft Office 365, Saves $1 Million in Operating Costs
Great news from Georgia! GSU has rolled out Office 365 as a replacement for their legacy GroupWise...
Author: jonnychambers Date: 08/28/2012
How To Use Excel Web App To Survey Your Students
Getting real time feedback from your students and staff can be a challenge. I’m a firm believer in...
Author: jamesbmarshall Date: 08/16/2012
Customising Your AD FS 2.0 Sign-in Pages
If you’re deploying Active Directory Federation Services 2.0 in your institution to enable single...
Author: jamesbmarshall Date: 08/15/2012
Exploring the new Office Web Apps – Excel Web Forms
Today we are going to highlight one of the features in the Excel Web Apps, which can be found as...
Author: Michael Icore Date: 08/14/2012
Scripting License Assignment in Office 365 for education
As more and more education institutions take advantage of Office 365 for education’s powerful...
Author: jamesbmarshall Date: 08/13/2012
User soft-delete and Dirsync filtering enabled
A huge request I get from my education customers deploying Office 365 for Education is how do you...
Author: markga Date: 08/10/2012
License assignment for Education customers
We continue to look at better ways to do license assignment in EDU. The initial scripts provide...
Author: GregK Date: 08/07/2012
Live@edu Upgrade to Office 365 for education
If you’re a Live@edu customer you might be wondering to yourself where you can find out more...
Author: jamesbmarshall Date: 08/07/2012
DirSync Now Supports Filtering
Early adopters of Office 365 for education will know that the DirSync tool that you can deploy to...
Author: jamesbmarshall Date: 08/03/2012
Still using outlook.com?
If you’re a Live@edu customer and you’re still using outlook.com to access your email...
Author: jamesbmarshall Date: 08/01/2012
Office 365 for education –Web Portal, Licensing and other general questions
As of June 27th Microsoft introduced officially Office 365 for education, and while there is a...
Author: Michael Icore Date: 07/27/2012
Janet helps institutions move to Microsoft Office 365 for education
Janet is helping the sector harness the benefits of cloud-based Microsoft Office 365 for education...
Author: jamesbmarshall Date: 07/06/2012
Using Shibboleth as an Identity Provider for Office 365
We have released documentation for Shibboleth support, marking the public availability for...
Author: GregK Date: 07/05/2012
Turning off forwarding in Exchange Online
I had a customer recently ask me about removing forwarding. There are two steps to do this...
Author: GregK Date: 07/05/2012
Where can I get some Office 365 deployment training?
Step by step ADFS training video The folks at TechNet have just released a new Office 365...
Author: markga Date: 07/02/2012
Office 365 for education–get your free trial today!
Making changes to the way you work, or more importantly the way your staff and students work, is a...
Author: jamesbmarshall Date: 07/02/2012
What happens at the end of the Office 365 for education trial?
It’s less than 48 hours since Office 365 for education launched around the world but already I’m...
Author: jamesbmarshall Date: 06/29/2012
Getting to know Office 365 for education
Just a few hours ago Office 365 for education launched around the world so we thought it might be a...
Author: jamesbmarshall Date: 06/28/2012
Welcome to Office 365 for education
Starting today, Microsoft Office 365 for education is available, providing the world’s best...
Author: jamesbmarshall Date: 06/27/2012
Office 365 Shared Mailbox Tool
In Office 365 for education, as it stands today, creating shared mailboxes involves using Windows...
Author: jamesbmarshall Date: 06/26/2012
Turn Off Password Expiry In Office 365 for education
If you’re using non-federated identities with Office 365 for education you will find that by default...
Author: jamesbmarshall Date: 06/25/2012
TechEd presentation on Office365 for education
Courtesy of Mr. Andy O'Donald...check it out!Andy covers off on: What is Office 365 for education...
Author: jonnychambers Date: 06/21/2012
What desktop updates do I need for Office 365 for Education?
This was a question from a university in northern California deploying Office 365 for Education for...
Author: markga Date: 06/11/2012
Live@edu Upgrade: Are your details up to date?
If you’re anything like me then you’re excitedly waiting to find about when you’ll be able to get...
Author: jamesbmarshall Date: 06/01/2012
Customer Story: Achieving consistent SSO with AD FS 2.0 and Office 365 for education
AD FS 2.0 offers institutions who are deploying Office 365 for education a really rich and effective...
Author: jamesbmarshall Date: 05/18/2012
What are the system requirements for Office 365 for education?
An important part of preparing to deploy Office 365 for education services is making sure that all...
Author: DerekSeymour Date: 05/09/2012
What are Office Web Apps and can I use my iPad with Office 365 Web Apps?
Office Web Apps are a part of two Microsoft cloud service offerings: Microsoft SkyDrive (standalone...
Author: markga Date: 05/07/2012
Is your IT environment ready for Office 365 for education?
If you’re looking at deploying Office 365 for education this summer a question you need to ask...
Author: jamesbmarshall Date: 05/02/2012
Automatic Replies & MailTips
“Did you get my last email?” Have you ever sent an email to someone and wondered why you haven’t had...
Author: jamesbmarshall Date: 04/30/2012
The Schools Network chooses Office 365 for education
The Schools Network—formerly known as the Specialist Schools and Academies Trust—is in...
Author: jamesbmarshall Date: 04/26/2012
Essential Reading: Office 365 for education
If you’ve been looking at Microsoft’s cloud services for a while now, in particular Live@edu, then...
Author: jamesbmarshall Date: 04/24/2012
What type of migration throughput can I get when migrating to Office 365?
This is a question I get asked quite often from customers. There are certainly many variables...
Author: markga Date: 04/23/2012
Microsoft Office 365 for Education - Webcast Series
Work together from virtually anywhere. Help your students, faculty and alumni stay connected and...
Author: jonnychambers Date: 04/17/2012
Where can I go to find Office 365 help documentation?
I was asked by a university in northern California evaluating Office 365 where they could find help...
Author: markga Date: 04/06/2012
What is the difference between Exchange Online Unified Messaging and Exchange 2010 on prem Unified Messaging?
This was a question asked by a large university in Ohio moving towards Office 365. Diagram showing...
Author: markga Date: 03/23/2012
New Checklist Guidance for Hybrid Deployment with Exchange 2003
Just announced on The Exchange Team Blog, “We're happy to announce that the Exchange Server...
Author: Zion Brewer Date: 03/21/2012
SharePoint Online Templates
Microsoft SharePoint MVP Alex Pearce, of BFC Networks, has been a busy man over the last few months!...
Author: jamesbmarshall Date: 03/20/2012
Booking resource calendars in Office 365
My customers asked about resource calendars and where do I increase the advanced booking settings in...
Author: GregK Date: 03/15/2012
New Lower Prices For Office 365
Yesterday Kirk Koenigsbauer, Corporate Vice President of the Microsoft Office Division product...
Author: jamesbmarshall Date: 03/15/2012