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OneDrive for Business default quotas now are being upped to 1TB from 25GB for Office 365 Education

Hot off the presses – we have confirmed that the 1TB storage increase per OneDrive for Business user...

Author: markga Date: 04/29/2014

Office for iPad: Some Common Questions Answered

Further to our recent announcement that Office for iPad is now available, I just wanted to take this...

Author: AshIddya Date: 04/07/2014

Microsoft announces Office for iPad

Microsoft is devoted to providing the tools which enable people from all walks of life to work...

Author: AshIddya Date: 03/28/2014

Office for iPad now available with Office 365 Education

Announced today we are now offering Office for iPad. You can use the free portion of Office for iPad...

Author: markga Date: 03/27/2014

SharePoint Online now allows up to 1TB of storage for OneDrive for Business and SharePoint site collections in Office 365

NOTE: Update 4-30-14 - This has all changed as we now provide 1TB of default OneDrive for Business...

Author: markga Date: 03/19/2014

What’s new in Office 365 Education in March 2014

There have been numerous new updates launched in February in Office 365 Education. Here is a list of...

Author: markga Date: 03/03/2014

Office 365 Education in the Classroom eBook (now available)

This new eBook, Office 365 Education in the Classroom, concentrates almost exclusively on how Office...

Author: AshIddya Date: 02/11/2014

Student Advantage Deployment Guide

Student Advantage is a volume licensing benefit where students get Office 365 ProPlus at no...

Author: AshIddya Date: 02/10/2014

What are my SKU names for Office 365 Education and how can I automate the licensing?

I was asked by several customers what are some of the new SKU names they can use and where can they...

Author: markga Date: 02/05/2014

Garage Series video education edition

I recommend you watch this new video from the Garage Series team which centers around education....

Author: markga Date: 01/08/2014

Using Office 365 ProPlus with RDS, ESD, App-V and VDI

This is a very common topic I am getting with my education customers and student labs, etc. My...

Author: markga Date: 12/15/2013

Synchronising passwords with Office 365

I have some exciting news!One of the most popular features of Live@edu, from a “techy”...

Author: jamesbmarshall Date: 12/14/2013

Office 365 Education Exchange Online mailbox quotas are doubling to 50GB FREE

It’s turning out to be a bumper week for Office 365 Education updates. Earlier this week it was...

Author: jamesbmarshall Date: 12/14/2013

Everything you need to know about Office 365 Education

I’ve been working with the education team at Microsoft for over 3 years now. In that time the...

Author: jamesbmarshall Date: 12/05/2013

Deploying and Managing Office 365 ProPlus

It’s a very exciting time to be an Office 365 Education customer. Student Advantage...

Author: jamesbmarshall Date: 11/27/2013

How do I get Student Advantage in Office 365 Education? (Part Three)

In part one of this little trio I talked about how institutions who already have Office 365...

Author: jamesbmarshall Date: 11/19/2013

What are my options to deploy Office 365 ProPlus?

This is becoming a popular question in education now that Student Advantage is coming very...

Author: markga Date: 11/11/2013

Office 365 Education: Teaching and Learning Scenario - Lync

Guest blog post from Gerald Haigh. Gerald writes regularly for the Microsoft Education series of...

Author: jamesbmarshall Date: 11/05/2013

How do I get Student Advantage in Office 365 Education? (Part 2)

In our last post, we looked at how an institution can associate Student Advantage licences with an...

Author: jamesbmarshall Date: 11/04/2013

How do I get Student Advantage in Office 365 Education?

With a little under a month until Student Advantage becomes available (that's December 1st, put it...

Author: jamesbmarshall Date: 10/30/2013

Join us for a live Q&A on Student Advantage

Since the recent announcement introducing Student Advantage almost a fortnight ago we’ve been...

Author: jamesbmarshall Date: 10/29/2013

Is there any new Office 365 training for my end users?

This is a common question I get from customers deploying Office 365 Education. There are several...

Author: markga Date: 10/26/2013

How to change from the Exchange Only Plan 1 License to an A2 license after the upgrade from Live@EDU to Office 365

TOOLS YOU CAN USE: how to change from the Exchange Only Plan 1 License to an A2 license after the...

Author: bill hagen Date: 10/16/2013

Office 365 ProPlus benefit FAQ

Great news! We just publically announced today at Educause that Office 365 ProPlus will be offered...

Author: markga Date: 10/15/2013

Microsoft offers students at eligible educational institutions access to full Office productivity suite for no additional cost

As part of our ongoing commitment to education, we are thrilled to announce Student Advantage, a new...

Author: jamesbmarshall Date: 10/15/2013

Live@edu - End of an Era

It gives me great pleasure in announcing that we have now completed the Live@edu Upgrade program to...

Author: jamesbmarshall Date: 10/14/2013

Archiving, eDiscovery, and preservation in Office 365 Education

Here is a common archiving/eDiscovery/compliance FAQ I put together based on several education...

Author: markga Date: 10/09/2013

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Author: jamesbmarshall Date: 10/08/2013

The Start of my Office 365 Education Journey

Guest post from Gerald Haigh. Gerald writes regularly for the Microsoft Education series of blogs....

Author: jamesbmarshall Date: 09/10/2013

Exchange Online mailbox quotas are now 50GB in size!

Great news we just announced today the new Exchange Online mailbox quotas are now 50GB in size with...

Author: markga Date: 08/29/2013

SkyDrive Pro storage increases making it even better for storing and sharing class work

For me, Office 365 Education just keeps getting better and better. SkyDrive Pro, part of Office 365...

Author: jamesbmarshall Date: 08/28/2013

Do you have any bandwidth calculators for Office 365?

Update 3-24-15: Latest Office 365 bandwidth guidance is here: https://aka.ms/tune This is a pretty...

Author: markga Date: 08/20/2013

Windows Azure Active Directory Connector (Release Candidate)

The DirSync team and the FIM Sync team are pleased to announce that we have released the Release...

Author: jamesbmarshall Date: 08/14/2013

Useful new troubleshooting and analysis tools for Office 365

We have recently released several new tools to help you with analysis and troubleshooting with...

Author: markga Date: 08/13/2013

Multi-forest and Multi-tenant scenarios with Office 365

I have had several questions around multi-forest and multi-tenant questions from my education...

Author: markga Date: 08/02/2013

Office Mobile available for iPhone and Android Phones

Over on the Office blog there have been a couple of announcements. If you’ve got an Office 365...

Author: jamesbmarshall Date: 07/31/2013

I cannot upgrade my SharePoint site collections to 2013 after the Wave15 upgrade

I have received this common question for customer’s Office 365 Education tenants who were upgraded...

Author: markga Date: 07/22/2013

The Service Upgrade

Over the course of the year until the end of September 2013, we are going to be rolling out the new...

Author: jamesbmarshall Date: 07/09/2013

SkyDrive Pro apps for Windows 8 and iOS

Sneaking in at the tail end of last week Senior Product Manager for SharePoint, Mark Kashman...

Author: jamesbmarshall Date: 07/01/2013

Event: Harnessing the power of Microsoft’s Office 365 Education to provide a better social learning environment

On July 10th at our UK HQ in Thames Valley Park, Reading, Berks, we’ll be holding an event in...

Author: jamesbmarshall Date: 06/27/2013

Office 365 Adapter: Deploying Office 365 Single Sign-On using Windows Azure

When Office 365 Education was launched, and the ability to provide seamless single sign-on to the...

Author: jamesbmarshall Date: 06/26/2013

What do I need to prepare for prior to my Office 365 Service Upgrade for 2013?

I have several customers in education getting upgraded to the Office 365 Service Upgrade for 2013....

Author: markga Date: 06/21/2013

Office Mobile for iPhone

Office Mobile for iPhoneToday June 14 2013 Microsoft is releasing Office Mobile for iPhone in the US...

Author: bill hagen Date: 06/14/2013

New Azure Active Directory Sync tool with Password Sync is now available

This release has been a capability which has generated a lot of interest with my customers going...

Author: markga Date: 06/03/2013

SADA Systems releases ADFS in Azure for Microsoft Office 365

SADA Systems, Inc., a leading Microsoft Cloud Partner, has introduced a new single sign on, or SSO,...

Author: jonnychambers Date: 05/28/2013

SkyDrive Pro client for Windows now available

This week the SharePoint team had something pretty cool to announce! The SkyDrive Pro client is...

Author: jamesbmarshall Date: 05/24/2013

Over 18 million students and staff to benefit from faster, more secure cloud-computing

As part of our on-going commitment to add value to the education community we serve, we are thrilled...

Author: jamesbmarshall Date: 05/21/2013

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