Live@edu users may be familiar with Microsoft OneNote in its Web App form, and how you can use OneNote 2010 as part of the Microsoft Office suite to synchronise your notes to SkyDrive. The great news is that we’ve taken that a step further, and you can now get OneNote for your iPhone, too! Some…
Custom filtering, using transport rules on Outlook Live
Live@EDU (Outlook Live) has a number of well published and documented security and compliance features, a few of them I have listed below (as well a reference for more information about each topic) – 1. Spam Filtering – http://help.outlook.com/en-US/140/dd251294.aspx 2. Cross Mailbox searches – http://help.outlook.com/en-US/140/cc511392.aspx 3. Anti-Bully Policy – http://help.outlook.com/en-US/140/Ee524078.aspx 4. Bad Word filter –…
School’s OOF for summer!
Most (if not all!) schools across the United Kingdom are now off for the summer break and won’t be back until the first week of September. Apart from the most committed students and teachers most people will probably be checking their email accounts less frequently than normal and for many students “school” becomes a dirty…
Microsoft Cloud Services & Accessibility
Lots of people ask me about the ways that Live@edu can help them save money, or become more efficient but occasionally I get asked about how Microsoft makes its cloud services accessible to as many people as possible. Over at our education webcasts site we’ve posted up a webcast that talks about exactly that! “Our…
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 every day (in 2010). Even if most of that is spam, it still leaves the inescapable fact that email is pretty important. One of the great things you can do when sending an email is attach…
Pittsford School District goes Live@edu!
Pittsford Central School District, in NY State has just rolled out Live@edu to their 6000 students. Prior to this deployment, Pittsford had been struggling with inefficient communications between their teachers and students. After a pilot of the service, and in partnership with CGS, Pittsford went into production, and have realized the following benefits: Helps teachers…
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 that is “deploying Live@edu”. If you’re running an existing mail service for your users the chances are you’re going to want to transfer as much existing mail and other data as possible. Planning your migration is…
SkyDrive – built for the modern web using HTML5
Have you been to http://skydrive.live.com recently? GO! Check it out! Something’s changed… It’s Faster Common tasks and scenarios, like clicking on folders and navigating photo albums will go from 6-9 seconds down to 100-300 milliseconds. We took advantage of hardware accelerated graphics, advancements like HTML5 video tag to support playback of H.264 videos (with support…
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 using Live@edu, at 1030am on: 15th June 2011 22nd June 2011 29th June 2011. This webinar is designed for Network Managers and IT Administrators in secondary schools, but anyone is welcome to join! Nviron Limited has developed…
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 any computer, anywhere; but what if you’re a power user? Connecting your Live@edu account to a locally installed copy of Outlook allows you to take advantage of the more advanced features of Live@edu. In the…