I had several ADFS and Single Sign On (SSO) questions from a large university in northern California proceeding with Office 365 for Education for faculty, staff and students. What servers do I need to accommodate single sign on (SSO) aka Federated ID? The following on premises servers are needed to accommodate SSO with Office…
What firewall ports do I need open to connect to Office 365 for Education?
This was a question for a large university in Arizona moving faculty, staff and students to Office 365. Here are the ports from the deployment guide (note: these are subject to change so refer here to the latest Port and IP list): *SMTP Relay with Exchange Online requires TCP port 587 and requires TLS….
Office 365 ProPlus for Faculty and Staff benefit launched today
Great news! We launched the new benefit for faculty, staff and teachers. If your education institution is eligible, you can now provide the Office 365 ProPlus offering to your faculty and staff. Here is a quick FAQ on the announcement: Where can I send teachers, faculty and staff? Send them to this link to download…
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 we strongly strongly recommend you to deploy with any ADFS deployment used for federation with Office 365. This update tool will automatically update the Office 365 service using update-msolfederateddomain cmdlet when the ADFS token signing certificate renews on…
Turning off forwarding in Exchange Online
I had a customer recently ask me about removing forwarding. There are two steps to do this the first is to remove the UI settings and the other to change the mailbox settings. The original article written for Live@edu was a little different as the rule set has changed in Office 365. I owe…
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 quota per user. Please see new my new blog post here and ignore the old scenario below. Great news you can now up your SharePoint OneDrive for Business quota to 1 terabyte up from the default 25GB…
Office 365 and Moodle integration
I get asked quite a bit about our Moodle integration with Office 365. The good news is starting today there is now a fantastic Office 365 and Moodle integration story. Moodle for Office 365 integration Here are some talking points about the offering: · The Moodle Office 365 integration provides faculty, educators and students…
Is there a way users can self-migrate from Google Apps Gmail into Office 365?
I get asked about how to migrate from Google Apps for Education to Office 365 Education every day from my education customers. There are several ways to do this: native Office 365 IMAP migration tools, 3rd party IMAP migration tools, 3rd party cloud based migration tools (if you also want to migrate Google calendar…
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:…