As you may have seen our Office Team is targeting simultaneous releases of the Office 365 service, Office 2013 clients, SharePoint 2013, Exchange 2013, Lync 2013, Project 2013, and Visio 2013. More information on these exciting releases can be found here: The New Exchange Reaches RTM! http://blogs.technet.com/b/exchange/archive/2012/10/11/the-new-exchange-reaches-rtm.aspx Lync 2013 reaches RTM! http://blogs.technet.com/b/lync/archive/2012/10/11/lync-2013-is-finished.aspx SharePoint reaches RTM!…
Service Update: Sender Photo Enabled by Default
Here’s a preview of the new Sender Photo feature that is enabled by default for all Outlook Live and Exchange Online users after the December 2011 Service Update. We’ve included some guidance on how to configure Sender Photo and how to disable it (in case a school requires that it be disabled). In the screenshots…
New Checklist Guidance for Hybrid Deployment with Exchange 2003
Just announced on The Exchange Team Blog, “We’re happy to announce that the Exchange Server Deployment Assistant (ExDeploy) has been enhanced to include support for configuring hybrid deployments using Exchange 2010 SP2 and the Hybrid Configuration Wizard.” The first in several upcoming scenario additions for configuring hybrid deployments when using the Hybrid Configuration Wizard, this…
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…
Unlocking Live@edu accounts and other password reset options
If you have the opportunity to take a vacation to some exotic location this holiday season…Congratulations! You deserve it. But keep in mind that your Live@edu users may be planning to do the same. Whether it’s a trip to the mountains, the beach, somewhere close or somewhere far away, an interesting thing happens when people…
Office 365 Education: Shared Calendars
Guest post by Gerald Haigh. Gerald writes regularly for the education series of blogs. Summer Term 2012, and your year eleven groups were on study leave. They were mainly a diligent, hard-working lot, and you smile when you think of them. So keen were they, in fact, that some of them couldn’t keep away. ‘Sonja…
Increase OneDrive for Business Storage to 5TB
1TB is the default tenant-wide setting for a user’s OneDrive for Business storage quota. If you have one of the following Office 365 plans for 5 or more users, you are eligible for up to 5TB of storage per user: Office 365 for Education (All plans) Office 365 E3, E4 and E5 (Enterprise and Government)…
License assignment for Education customers
We continue to look at better ways to do license assignment in EDU. The initial scripts provide quick way to do assignment but lacked in granularity. When a customer wants to apply licenses we wanted to look at the source AD to track against a single attribute for the license assignment. Please follow the…
64-bit Directory Synchronization tool available for download from Office 365 Portal
If you are planning to deploy the Microsoft Online Services Directory Synchronization tool (DirSync) for synchronization from Active Directory to Office 365, then we have some important news for you. There’s a 32-bit DirSync client AND a 64-bit DirSync client available for download at the Office 365 Portal! Download the Directory Synchronization tool (DirSync)…
What’s new in Office 365 Education in March 2014
There have been numerous new updates launched in February in Office 365 Education. Here is a list of new functionality. Office 365 Education updates shipped in February 2014: New names: Office Web Apps are now rebranded as Office Online and SkyDrive Pro is now rebranded as OneDrive for Business. OneDrive name now in Office 365…