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Tag: Live@edu
To delete, or not to delete?
Summer’s here! At least, that’s what I’m told – I just wish the weather would show it… I also know that for many IT administrators the next few weeks can be the busiest of the year. One of the processes that many will be familiar with is deleting the leavers and creating accounts for all…
OneNote now available for iPhone!
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…
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…
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…
Support for Accessibility
The topic of accessibility has come up in discussion with a number of Live@edu customers in the US recently, who want to understand support for it in Microsoft software. At Microsoft we’re committed to accessibility and have been investing for more than 20 years, making a tremendous impact on the lives of people with a…
Portland Public Schools – largest school district in Oregon–goes…
Live@edu for all of their Faculty and Staff, and their High School Students. PPS is the largest school district in Oregon and, in fact the northwest of the US. Together with other schools, about a third of the state is now on our services…others include Ashland Public Schools, Columbia Gorge, Coos Bay School District, Phoenix…
Lake Washington School District shows off OneNote
Lake Washington School District has always been very progressive in their use of IT in the classroom, and as a mechanism for collaboration between teachers and staff members. Recently, Sonja Delafosse, an LWSD Technology Integration Specialist, gave an overview of how she uses Microsoft OneNote for her own personal productivity and multi-person collaboration. She also…