Office 365 Education Blog
Read all about Office 365 Education news, features, tips and tricks to help you stay informed.
Resource mailboxes are the best way to handle room bookings!
Wouldn’t it be great if you could get rid of that pile of paper, that book or binder, that holds all...
Author: Anonymous Date: 10/12/2011
Curious Greg builds a lab Part IV
Today Curious Greg is going to Houston to visit the Johnson Space Center. Before he leaves he wanted...
Author: GregK Date: 10/11/2011
SMTP Relay
One of my customers asked me this the other day, “When we move to Exchange Online and no longer have...
Author: GregK Date: 10/10/2011
Dynamic Distribution Groups–Part 2
Now you see me… Now you don’t! In part one of this blog-couplet I talked about how you can very...
Author: Anonymous Date: 10/06/2011
What are all the Office 365 for Education PowerShell command options?
This was a question from a university in New Orleans looking to move to Office 365 for...
Author: markga Date: 10/05/2011
Dynamic Distribution Groups–Part 1
Hear, ye! Hear, ye! From secondary schools to universities there are lots of reasons why you’d want...
Author: Anonymous Date: 10/05/2011
Curious Greg builds a Lab–Part III
The yellow man in the hat has been breathing down on me lately to continue my exploits. Today...
Author: GregK Date: 10/04/2011
Curious Greg builds a Lab–Part II
In part II of our series I’ll be discussing Directory Synchronization (DirSync). This is where...
Author: GregK Date: 10/02/2011
Curious Greg builds a Lab–Part I
I remember as a kid those days I would read Curious George and wonder how did he end up there. Well...
Author: GregK Date: 10/02/2011
Questions about ADFS and Single Sign On (SSO) with Office 365 for Education
I had several ADFS and Single Sign On (SSO) questions from a large university in northern California...
Author: markga Date: 09/23/2011
Kentucky Department of Education saving $6.3m in costs with Live@edu
Hi folks,Around a year ago,the Kentucky Department of Education (KDE) rolled out Live@edu to their...
Author: jonnychambers Date: 09/20/2011
PowerShell–THE best way to manage Live@edu
All the leaves are brown… Ok, so maybe they’re still a little green. Either way the busy summer...
Author: Anonymous Date: 09/16/2011
How green is your cloud, Microsoft?
Schools and universities sometimes ask me to tell them all about how moving onto our cloud offerings...
Author: jonnychambers Date: 09/13/2011
What do you get with Exchange Hybrid?
This was a question from a university in Utah looking to deploy students on Office 365 and...
Author: markga Date: 09/08/2011
Calendar Publishing in Live@edu
So, you want to publish your calendar? In my last post I talked about how you could set up sharing...
Author: Anonymous Date: 09/08/2011
Sharing Free/Busy across the cloud
Are you free? More and more institutions are beginning to realise the importance of connected,...
Author: Anonymous Date: 09/07/2011
FREE Activation Webcast
Back to school Some of you will already be back to school – others will be dreading looking forward...
Author: Anonymous Date: 09/02/2011
Dynamic Distribution Groups
Mass Mail Dynamic distribution groups (DDGs) are a great way to manage groups in Live@edu,...
Author: Anonymous Date: 09/01/2011
Welcome and Let’s talk about UM in the Cloud
Hi! Thanks for coming. My name is Greg Katz and was also part of the three man team the UC Amigos in...
Author: GregK Date: 08/30/2011
What do I need to do to prepare for Office 365 for Education?
Welcome to our new blog! My name is Mark Garcia and I have been blogging on the Three UC Amigos blog...
Author: markga Date: 08/29/2011
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Author: jonnychambers Date: 08/29/2011
Welcome to Microsoft Education in the Cloud
Hi everyone!As an evolution of our popular https://msftedublogger.wordpress.com/ blog, where we spent...
Author: jonnychambers Date: 08/29/2011
Action required: Changes to Live@edu SSO Toolkit
Important ChangesAs per the recent posting on Outlook Live Answers, there are some changes that will...
Author: Anonymous Date: 08/26/2011
History Reimagined
Man on the moon That was, like, 42 years ago, right? Just imagine how many calculations –...
Author: Anonymous Date: 08/25/2011
Three new UK universities adopting Microsoft Live@edu
Heading to Brighton, Plymouth or Huddersfield this year? Then you’re in for a treat at these three...
Author: Anonymous Date: 08/16/2011
In case you missed it…
Could you repeat that? Over the last week we hosted two free deployment webcasts where I talked...
Author: Anonymous Date: 08/10/2011
Using more than 1 Windows Live ID at a time…
Hotmail users, rejoice! A comment that I get quite often is that it’s “not possible to user more...
Author: Anonymous Date: 08/09/2011
Configuring regional settings automatically
Hello! Hej! હેલ્લો Ciao! Tere! नमस्ते Hallo! No matter where you are in the world it seems there’s a...
Author: Anonymous Date: 08/08/2011
FREE Live@edu Deployment Webcast
Who likes free stuff? I know I do! Well, I’d like to take this opportunity to invite you to join our...
Author: Anonymous Date: 08/01/2011
To delete, or not to delete?
Summer’s here! At least, that’s what I’m told – I just wish the weather would show it… I also know...
Author: Anonymous Date: 07/28/2011
OneNote now available for iPhone!
Live@edu users may be familiar with Microsoft OneNote in its Web App form, and how you can use...
Author: Anonymous Date: 07/27/2011
Custom filtering, using transport rules on Outlook Live
Live@EDU (Outlook Live) has a number of well published and documented security and compliance...
Author: jonnychambers Date: 07/26/2011
School’s OOF for summer!
Most (if not all!) schools across the United Kingdom are now off for the summer break and...
Author: Anonymous Date: 07/26/2011
Microsoft Cloud Services & Accessibility
Lots of people ask me about the ways that Live@edu can help them save money, or become more...
Author: Anonymous Date: 07/25/2011
Emailing attachments in Live@edu–time to think again?
Since the first email was sent 40 years ago email use has grown to around 294 billion emails sent...
Author: Anonymous Date: 07/14/2011
Pittsford School District goes Live@edu!
Pittsford Central School District, in NY State has just rolled out Live@edu to their 6000 students....
Author: jonnychambers Date: 07/11/2011
Considerations For Deploying Live@edu–Part 2: Migration
Moving to the cloud this summer? Getting signed up for Live@edu is only a small part of the project...
Author: Anonymous Date: 07/01/2011
SkyDrive – built for the modern web using HTML5
Have you been to https://skydrive.live.com recently? GO! Check it out! Something’s changed… It’s...
Author: Anonymous Date: 06/21/2011
Free Partner Webinar–Saving Money with Live@edu
Microsoft Gold Partner Nviron Limited is hosting a free webinar to talk all about how to save money...
Author: Anonymous Date: 06/08/2011
Tips #8–Connecting to Microsoft Office Outlook
The Outlook Web App that is included as part of Live@edu is a fantastic way to access your mail from...
Author: Anonymous Date: 05/23/2011
Tips #7–Manage All Your Communications
You can use Outlook Live to bring together all of your communications – from IM &...
Author: Anonymous Date: 05/19/2011
Updated: Free Webcast – Learn More About Live@edu
UPDATE: Unable to make the meetings? Still want to find out more? View the Live Meeting on demand...
Author: Anonymous Date: 05/10/2011
Support for Accessibility
The topic of accessibility has come up in discussion with a number of Live@edu customers in the US...
Author: jonnychambers Date: 03/22/2011
Portland Public Schools – largest school district in Oregon–goes…
Live@edu for all of their Faculty and Staff, and their High School Students. PPS is the largest...
Author: jonnychambers Date: 02/24/2011
Lake Washington School District shows off OneNote
Lake Washington School District has always been very progressive in their use of IT in the...
Author: jonnychambers Date: 02/18/2011
Vanderbilt CIO demos Windows Live Mesh 2011
Vanderbilt CIO, Matthew Jett Hall, has recently posted a video covering how he uses our popular...
Author: jonnychambers Date: 02/18/2011
Florida Virtual School rolls out Exchange Online, and saves $2m
Florida Virtual School (FLVS) is a leader in providing virtual Kindergarten–12 solutions to...
Author: jonnychambers Date: 02/03/2011
Welcoming Fraser Public Schools to Live@edu!
Fraser Public Schools in Michigan is fostering learning outside the classroom with a new suite of...
Author: jonnychambers Date: 02/03/2011
Using transport rules to create an “Ethical Firewall”
Hello again, I hope everyone had a wonderful holiday season! Just before the holiday break I had a...
Author: jonnychambers Date: 01/21/2011