So, you want to publish your calendar? In my last post I talked about how you could set up sharing free/busy information between two Live@edu environments but what about sharing your whole calendar with someone? When you click share in the calendar screen, by default, the options to publish the calendar to the Internet are…
Tag: Education
Sharing Free/Busy across the cloud
Are you free? More and more institutions are beginning to realise the importance of connected, collaborative working, and the value of enterprise email and deciding whether 1, or many tenancies is the right option can be tough. Sometimes, for very good reasons, you need to split up your users into different tenants in Live@edu. Perhaps…
FREE Activation Webcast
Back to school Some of you will already be back to school – others will be dreading looking forward to the start of term next week. Whatever your situation you can’t escape the immutable fact that the start of term is a very busy time of year! The school hall won’t be this empty for…
Dynamic Distribution Groups
Mass Mail Dynamic distribution groups (DDGs) are a great way to manage groups in Live@edu, especially ones where the recipient list might change frequently or unpredictably. For example, you might want an “All Pupils” distribution group that sends a mail to every pupil in the school, but what about pupils who have left, or ones…
Action required: Changes to Live@edu SSO Toolkit
Important Changes As per the recent posting on Outlook Live Answers, there are some changes that will need to be made if you are using SSO. The URL used to validate a Windows Live ID is changing, so any single sign-on solutions that are built using the Microsoft Live@edu SSO Toolkit must be modified to…
History Reimagined
Man on the moon That was, like, 42 years ago, right? Just imagine how many calculations – complex calculations – had to be performed to ensure every last detail was correct? The scary thing is there is probably more power in your mobile phone these days than they had at all back then. An…
Three new UK universities adopting Microsoft Live@edu
Heading to Brighton, Plymouth or Huddersfield this year? Then you’re in for a treat at these three universities as well as many other academic institutions will be rolling out Microsoft Live@edu to their students starting this academic year. Great news! Are you? Are you rolling out Live@edu ready for September? We’d love to hear from…
In case you missed it…
Could you repeat that? Over the last week we hosted two free deployment webcasts where I talked about the next steps after enrolling for Live@edu. Topics included: Proving domain ownership Provisioning users Migrating data Automating management If you weren’t there, WHERE were you?! The good news is that you can now check out both sessions…
Using more than 1 Windows Live ID at a time…
Hotmail users, rejoice! A comment that I get quite often is that it’s “not possible to user more than one Live ID at a time”; that is to say that you can’t be logged into Live@edu at the same time as being logged into Windows Live Hotmail. That’s half true. Let me explain… Live@edu can…
Configuring regional settings automatically
Hello! Hej! હેલ્લો Ciao! Tere! नमस्ते Hallo! No matter where you are in the world it seems there’s a word for “hello”. Of course, it’s not always spelled the same way! The same can be said for many other words, so making sure that you’ve got the correct regional settings configured is important for…