An important part of preparing to deploy Office 365 for education services is making sure that all the system requirements are met for the machines used by administrators and users to connect. There are minimum levels supported and recommended for client operating systems (PC or Mac), browser versions (IE, Firefox, Safari or Chrome) and Microsoft Office versions (2007, 2010). …
What are Office Web Apps and can I use my iPad with Office 365 Web Apps?
Office Web Apps are a part of two Microsoft cloud service offerings: Microsoft SkyDrive (standalone at http://skydrive.live.com and a part of Live@edu) and Microsoft SharePoint Online. With Office Web Apps, you have the ability to create, view and edit the following Office documents within your Safari, Firefox, or IE browser: Word Excel PowerPoint OneNote You…
Is your IT environment ready for Office 365 for education?
If you’re looking at deploying Office 365 for education this summer a question you need to ask yourself is: is your IT environment ready for Office 365 for education? Are you running compatible operating systems, or versions of Microsoft Office? The Microsoft Assessment and Planning (MAP) toolkit can help with find out exactly that kind…
Automatic Replies & MailTips
“Did you get my last email?” Have you ever sent an email to someone and wondered why you haven’t had a response? Is that distribution group you asked a question to ignoring you? Chances are you’ve encountered people who aren’t making best use of automatic replies and MailTips… Helpfully, both Live@edu and Office 365 for…
The Schools Network chooses Office 365 for education
The Schools Network—formerly known as the Specialist Schools and Academies Trust—is in the business of transforming education around the world. Over the past 25 years, this London-based, not-for-profit organization has built a world-class network of innovative, high-performing schools and academies in partnership with business and the wider community. It works with a long list of…
Essential Reading: Office 365 for education
If you’ve been looking at Microsoft’s cloud services for a while now, in particular Live@edu, then you may well have seen the trusty deployment guide that has helped many customers deploy Live@edu in their institutions successfully. Wouldn’t it be great if there was a deployment guide for Office 365? Good news! There is, and what’s…
What type of migration throughput can I get when migrating to Office 365?
This is a question I get asked quite often from customers. There are certainly many variables that factor into your average throughput during a migration including data source, network, migration engine, service throttling, etc. We just released an excellent whitepaper called the Exchange Online Migration Performance Guide that explains this in detail. I included some…
Microsoft Office 365 for Education – Webcast Series
Work together from virtually anywhere. Help your students, faculty and alumni stay connected and work together from virtually anywhere! Provide free access to email, calendars, document sharing, instant messaging, video chat, mobile email, and more. Help them complete assignments, create presentations and develop projects together on the Web. Office 365 Overview forEducation Learn about Microsoft…
PST Capture is now available as a free download
Just announced on The Exchange Team Blog, “Today, we are happy to announce that PST Capture is now available as a free download.” PST Capture helps you search your network to discover and then import .pst files across your environment – all from a straightforward admin-driven tool. PST Capture will help reduce risk while increasing…