If you’ve never used SharePoint before, and you’re now exploring your options with SharePoint Online you might want to know about some simple tips to get you started! Where are the Web Apps? Out of the box, SharePoint Online behaves a little bit like the picture above. The question I get asked most often by…
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Webcast: Office 365 Master Class
Are you looking to move to Office 365, but you’re not too sure on how? Quest are offering a free webinar on Office 365 which provides an overview of the product and also the best approach to prepare and migrate from a legacy platform; ensuring that all your data remains confidential and secure. The webinar…
IT Academy: Office 365 Training & Certification
The upgrade process from Live@edu to Office 365 has begun! And if your organisation has an IT Academy subscription then you have access to the Office 365 training material and the ability to gain one of the latest Microsoft Office 365 certifications. Through using the IT Academy, your organisation’s IT staff can be completely proficient…
Partner Webcast: Planning Your Upgrade
Do you want to get ahead of the game and plan your upgrade to Office 365, but you’re not sure how? Oxford Computer Group, a Microsoft Gold Partner, are offering a free webinar that covers how to plan your upgrade from Live@edu to Office 365 for education. In their own words: Like any IT project,…
Top Ways to prepare for an Office 365 deployment
If you’re looking at deploying Office 365 for education at your institution, but you’re wondering what the best way to prepare is, then look no further! Over on the phenomenally useful Office 365 community there is a wiki page that steps through all the things you need to think about when preparing for an Office…
Georgia State University Switches to Microsoft Office 365, Saves $1 Million in Operating Costs
Great news from Georgia! GSU has rolled out Office 365 as a replacement for their legacy GroupWise environment and users are now enjoying anytime, anywhere, any device access to their email and other collaborative services. I urge you to check out the case study, here are a few choice quotes: “There were several problems with…
How To Use Excel Web App To Survey Your Students
Getting real time feedback from your students and staff can be a challenge. I’m a firm believer in finding better ways to engage students and teachers and the new Excel Web App in SharePoint Online (at which you can take a sneak peak in the new Office 365 preview) has a new feature that can…
Customising Your AD FS 2.0 Sign-in Pages
If you’re deploying Active Directory Federation Services 2.0 in your institution to enable single sign-on you might want to customize the default look and feel with some custom text, logos and colours to make it fit in with your brand and to make it more familiar to your users. Or just something different from the…
Exploring the new Office Web Apps – Excel Web Forms
Today we are going to highlight one of the features in the Excel Web Apps, which can be found as part of the new Office 365 demo environment. The Office Web apps are part of the SharePoint Online experience and can be used to either create new content or edit existing Office documents once they…
Scripting License Assignment in Office 365 for education
As more and more education institutions take advantage of Office 365 for education’s powerful capabilities a question that comes up is: how can you script license assignment for your staff, students and alumni so that you don’t have to manually go through the process each time you enroll new users? Thankfully there are a couple…