This is a great feature for using Office 365 ProPlus on multiuser/share machine scenarios such as school labs, classroom carts, VDI, RDS, Citrix, Remote App since you can run Office 365 ProPlus in a shared machine model. Prerequisites before using SCA: 1) You need to have an Office 365 Education tenant 2) You need…
OneNote Class Notebook and OneNote Staff Notebook
The OneNote team just added an awesome addition to the OneNote shared Notebook strategy called OneNote Staff Notebook which complements the OneNote Class Notebook. New OneNote Staff and Class Notebook infographic What is OneNote Class Notebook (formerly known as Class Notebook Creator)? OneNote Class Notebook (CN) is an awesome feature that is hosted on…
Branded login page, self service password reset, and updated Outlook for iOS and Android
Some great new items launched today for Office 365 customers. Brand your Azure AD/Office 365 Login Page If you use the Azure AD identity for login (e.g. AAD Synced identity with password sync) you will be able to soon brand your login page and Azure AD Access Panel (for SSO SaaS apps) such…
How to install AAD Sync on a full SQL Server
This was a question from large customer in the southwest who has over 250,000 users to sync to Office 365. AAD Sync requires a Full SQL Server to handle anything over around 100,000 user objects. Here are the steps to install AAD Sync with a Full SQL Server: 0) Install a SQL Server…
Office for Android tablet, OneDrive for Mac sync preview, Outlook for iOS and Android now available
Three big announcements today: Office for Android tablet This is a great addition to the Office 365 ProPlus suite where you can get Excel, Word, PowerPoint on your Android tablet now. Word for Android tablet Excel for Android tablet PowerPoint for Android tablet Grab them here and combine them with…
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…
Office 365 Video coming to Office 365 Education
This is an awesome addition to Office 365 tenants and Office 365 Education customers and is in the process of rolling out to tenants very shortly It is the first of our NextGen portal offerings in SharePoint Online which are coming. What is Office 365 Video? Office 365 Video is a NextGen portal which…
Migrate up to 150MB attachments to Exchange Online
Great news effective now we announced that we have upped the attachment migration limit size to 150MB attachments. This migration attachment limit was previously 25MB which caused a lot of attachment mitigation prior to migration if your on prem quota was larger than 25MB. This is an excellent bump in migration attachment size to help…
SAML 2.0 and Shibb support for Office 365 ProPlus and Office 2013 standalone – available in tech preview
This is a common ask in education: When will OneDrive for Business folder sync client, Office 365 ProPlus/Outlook 2013 and Lync 2013 support SAML 2.0 and Shibboleth authentication with Office 365 Education? The great news is support for this is now becoming available via an Office 2013 and Office 365 ProPlus November 2014 client update…
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…