Good news! In the next round of updates to Office 365 (Exchange Online) we’ll be adding support for address book policies! The Exchange Team have detailed exactly what this means, but the headlines are: It’s an Exchange Online only feature. It is available for enterprise (E) and education (A) plans only. Supports additional Address Lists…
Year: 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, interested SIs and ISVs can start building apps and solutions by following Office developer guidance and also integrate with Azure AD. Over the next few weeks, I will be highlighting some great Microsoft partners that have built innovative solutions…
Office 365 University
With emphasis of services and devices our priorities are adapting to Office on your terms illustrated by today’s announcement of Office 365 University! Office 365 is the next bold step in Microsoft’s transformation to a devices and services company noted in Steve Ballmer’s blog post today – for the first time, consumers can subscribe to…
Contoso Learning Companion – check it out
“The Contoso Learning Companion is a modern Windows 8 application built to work with SharePoint 2010 and 2013. It uses SharePoint sites as collaboration spaces for classes and study groups and integrates with the popular OneNote application for lessons and assignments. This popular starter kit provides everything you need to deliver tailored Windows 8 solutions…
Managing Office 365 for education using PowerShell
PowerShell is cool – at least I think it is! We’ve been talking about using PowerShell to manage Live@edu since the early days of Exchange Labs, and several times since. As more and more customers complete the upgrade from Live@edu to Office 365 for education I thought it would be a good time to talk…
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 365 for education, but also IT Academy – our extensive and comprehensive education program. ITA offers the latest Microsoft software for labs, classrooms, and PCs used by students, access to a wide range of Microsoft E-Learning…
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 assessment for learning strategy in the classroom. I thought this was a great post as Lync Online is part of Office 365 for education and users can use Lync client on the desktop to communicate with others easily. In…
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 365 for education, or answering questions about what the service can do. In this guest post, our resident star Mandeep Atwal talks about how schools are actually using Lync Online in the classroom. Today’s workforce and…
Snow Day? Try Office 365 for education on for size!
If you’re in the UK (other countries are available) you’ll probably look out of your window this morning and see something like this: Teachers and pupils up and down the country tune into their local radio stations eagerly awaiting news of school closures, crossing fingers and toes that theirs is on the list. Traditionally when…