Great news, beginning today Yammer Enterprise will ship with all Office 365 A plans at no additional cost. The availability was announced yesterday in this blog post. Schools are facing increasing pressure to provide faculty, staff and students with the highly connected tools and information that both match today’s consumer social networking experiences and are…
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Yammer Enterprise for Office 365 Education now available!
Great news today we announced the availability of Yammer Enterprise in your Office 365 Education tenant. It is in the process being rolled out to all education tenants as we speak so check your tenant as it should be arriving in the near future if you do not already see it. I put together a…
Office 365 Roadmap site now available
This is great new site we just launched showing all the new features and upcoming features of Office 365 listed here: Show features launched, rolling out, and in development (upcoming features) in your tenant. Drilldown descriptions of the feature. Visit the Office 365 roadmap site here.
Is there an Office 365 End User Adoption Kit?
I have many education customers deploying Office 365 this summer while school is out. I was asked what we have to prepare their end users for training, items to create buzz (posters, flyers, emails), how to prepare help desk, etc. The good news is we just provided some new adoption kits for your end users:…
OneDrive for Business FAQ
Update 5-11-15: Great new roadmap information. Please see the OneDrive for Business roadmap post here. I get asked a lot of questions about OneDrive for Business from customers so I have put together a quick FAQ to help: How many OneDrives are there? I see one in Windows 8 and then I see one with…
Customizable launch materials to announce Student Advantage at your school
Are you getting ready to make the Student Advantage benefit available to your school or university? Visit Office.com/GetOffice365Resources to download a wide selection of easily customizable emails, print materials, templates, and more designed to help deliver a clear, school-wide message. This combination of digital and print communications will: Announce that Office…
Synchronize passwords for federated users to reduce downtime in case of an emergency
Office 365 now supports Password Synchronization as a temporary backup for Single Sign-On (federation). From the TechNet Wiki, “At General Availability, the Password Synchronization feature did not support the synchronization of passwords for users in a Federated namespace. We have recently updated the service code to allow this. This enables the added possibility of running Password Sync while…
Mobile Entrée 365 for SharePoint released!!
The Office 365 Education team is very excited that H3 Solutions Mobile Entrée 365 is now available in the Office Store . EDU Office 365 customers obtain incremental value from their SharePoint Online while being productive while mobile. Office 365 users can download at http://office.microsoft.com/en-us/store/mobile-entree-365-WA104323552.aspx (a 15 day free trial is available) I found their Press Release offers a…
Can I create a single PowerShell session for Lync Online, SharePoint Online, Azure AD, and Exchange Online?
The answer is yes you can however I couldn’t find this documented so I decided to write a post on how to create a Super Office 365 PowerShell script to get connected to all four PowerShell services in a single PowerShell session with Office 365 Education. What PowerShell options do I have for Office 365?…