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Office 365 Education Blog

Read all about Office 365 Education news, features, tips and tricks to help you stay informed.

Administrator Access to SkyDrive Pro

SkyDrive Pro is an excellent web-based, enterprise ready, personal storage and collaboration tool...

Author: Mark Dunkel Date: 05/15/2013

Virtual Teams Project at NUI Galway – uses Office 365

When we first launched Office 365 for education back in June 2012, UMass Amherst and NUI Galway...

Author: jonnychambers Date: 05/14/2013

Connecting SharePoint Online to CRM Online using BCS

Girish Raja from our CRM team just posted a fairly extensive blog on how to connect SharePoint and...

Author: jonnychambers Date: 05/14/2013

Is there a way users can self-migrate from Google Apps Gmail into Office 365?

I get asked about how to migrate from Google Apps for Education to Office 365 Education every day...

Author: markga Date: 05/11/2013

A Faster, More Effective Way to Communicate With Students Using SharePoint Online and Connect Yard

Once upon a time, e-mail was the fastest and easiest way toreach your student body, particularly...

Author: bill hagen Date: 05/06/2013

Grants for educators using Windows Azure in their curricula

On April 16, Microsoft announced the availability of Windows Azure Infrastructure Services. ...

Author: jonnychambers Date: 05/02/2013

Update the Live@edu SSO Toolkit to maintain single sign-on access on Office 365 Education

** Update October 8, 2014 ** Please check the Office 365 Message Center for the most recent...

Author: Zion Brewer Date: 05/02/2013

Can’t convert domain to federated

I ran into an interesting problem setting up ADFS 2.1 on Windows Server 2012 for Office 365...

Author: markga Date: 04/30/2013

Partner Offering: Live@edu Upgrade Training

Oxford Computer Group, a Microsoft Gold Partner, are running a series of one day training events...

Author: jamesbmarshall Date: 04/16/2013

Alumni Address Book Policy in Office 365 Education

We recently took a look at one of the ways you can address the question of supporting alumni users...

Author: jamesbmarshall Date: 04/15/2013

Collabco is a specialist Microsoft Partner focused on SharePoint, Dynamics CRM, Lync, UAG, Mobility...

Author: jonnychambers Date: 04/12/2013

Dell’s OnDemand Migration for Email – Migration with ZeroFOOTPRINT

Next up in our partner blog post series is some great information from long-time partner Dell. A lot...

Author: jonnychambers Date: 03/26/2013

High quality event production with Microsoft Lync and EventBuilder: L+

If you are looking to take your Lync web conferencing to the next level you have to check out...

Author: bill hagen Date: 03/23/2013

BFC Networks tackles SharePoint Online customization for learners

The third partner guest blog post series is from a UK ISV that has a Microsoft SharePoint MVP at the...

Author: jonnychambers Date: 03/19/2013

Two Accounts after Live@edu to Office 365 Upgrade

Check out this video explaining the two accounts users will have after their institution upgrades...

Author: jamesbmarshall Date: 03/18/2013

IT Academy: Office 365 Education Training & Certification

The upgrade process from Live@edu to Office 365 Education has begun, and if your organisation has an...

Author: jamesbmarshall Date: 03/14/2013

Top User Tips #10–Blogging in SharePoint Online

It’s time for our final post in the top user tips series, and today it’s all about blogging in...

Author: jamesbmarshall Date: 03/13/2013

Top User Tips #9–Multiple Co-Authoring in Office Web Apps

In the eighth instalment of our top user tips we looked at Excel Surveys using the Excel Web App,...

Author: jamesbmarshall Date: 03/12/2013

Top User Tips #8–Excel Surveys

We’re into the final three top user tips in our series, and today it’s all about a topic we covered...

Author: jamesbmarshall Date: 03/11/2013

Top User Tips #7–Following Content in SharePoint Online

Having looked at the new social networking features of SharePoint Online back in the 2nd edition of...

Author: jamesbmarshall Date: 03/08/2013

Top User Tips #6–Outlook Web App on Mobile Devices

We’re over half way through our top user tips series (there are only 10, I promise!) and today we’re...

Author: jamesbmarshall Date: 03/07/2013

Top User Tips #5–Multiple Calendar Views in OWA

Hot on the heels of yesterday’s top user tip about SkyDrive Pro we’re back with our fifth instalment...

Author: jamesbmarshall Date: 03/06/2013

Where can I learn and prepare for the new Office 365 Education?

We just launched the new Office 365 Education suite last week so you might be asking where can I...

Author: markga Date: 03/05/2013

Top User Tips #4–Drag ‘n’ Drop in SkyDrive Pro

So far in our top user tips posts we’ve looked at scheduling online meetings with Lync Web...

Author: jamesbmarshall Date: 03/05/2013

Top User Tips #3–Lync Online Web Scheduler

Last week, in part 2 of our top user tips we looked at the social networking features of SharePoint...

Author: jamesbmarshall Date: 03/04/2013

Learning Possibilities LP+4 – now with extra Office 365

Next up in my partner guest blog post series is a UK ISV that has been building solutions on the...

Author: jonnychambers Date: 03/03/2013

Top User Tips #2–SharePoint Online Social Networking

In part 1 of our bite-size top user tips we looked at Offline Access. Today, in part 2, we look at...

Author: jamesbmarshall Date: 03/01/2013

Top User Tips #1–Offline Access

Over the next few days we’ll be posting up some bite-size tips about some of the cool features...

Author: jamesbmarshall Date: 02/28/2013

The new Office 365 Education is here!

Yesterday Microsoft launched the next generation of Office 365, but did you know this included...

Author: jamesbmarshall Date: 02/28/2013

Office 365 Virtual Launch–February 27th

Join us at our Virtual Launch Event on February 27th as we celebrate the availability of a major new...

Author: jamesbmarshall Date: 02/21/2013

Office 365 Address Book Policies

Good news! In the next round of updates to Office 365 (Exchange Online) we’ll be adding...

Author: jamesbmarshall Date: 02/20/2013

Max’s Toolbox for Office365 – SharePoint for young learners

The new Office 365 is just around the corner, interested parties can access a preview today,...

Author: jonnychambers Date: 02/13/2013

Office 365 University

With emphasis of services and devices our priorities are adapting to Office on your terms...

Author: bill hagen Date: 01/29/2013

Contoso Learning Companion – check it out

“The Contoso Learning Companion is a modern Windows 8 application built to work with...

Author: jonnychambers Date: 01/26/2013

Managing Office 365 for education using PowerShell

PowerShell is cool – at least I think it is! We’ve been talking about using PowerShell...

Author: jamesbmarshall Date: 01/23/2013

Office 365 Identity (Azure AD) now working with IT Academy

Hi folks, We have a lot of customers out there in edu-land that are subscribers to not only Office...

Author: jonnychambers Date: 01/22/2013

Configuring Lync Custom Statuses To Support Assessment for Learning

In our last post our guest contributor Mandeep Atwal talked about using Lync client to support...

Author: jamesbmarshall Date: 01/22/2013

Assessment for Learning with Lync Online!

As a technical guy, I spend most of my days talking to customers about how they can deploy Office...

Author: jamesbmarshall Date: 01/21/2013

Decommissioning Exchange 2010 servers in a Hybrid Deployment

Often customers I speak to like the idea of a hybrid deployment in order to keep their staff users...

Author: jamesbmarshall Date: 12/28/2012

Using SharePoint Online & OneNote Web App for better notes, everywhere!

I have always been meticulous awful when it comes to keeping notes; whether it’s actions from...

Author: jamesbmarshall Date: 12/27/2012

5 Top Tips for upgrading from Live@edu to Office 365 for education

I like to get out of the office whenever I can, and last week I visited a local junior school to...

Author: jamesbmarshall Date: 12/12/2012

Accessibility in Office 365 for education

The Microsoft Accessibility team run a wide range of initiatives, including a global network of...

Author: jamesbmarshall Date: 12/11/2012

Live@edu Upgrade Update

By September 2013, all Live@edu customers will need to complete the upgrade to Office 365 for...

Author: jamesbmarshall Date: 11/27/2012

Parent Access to SharePoint Online using PALs

There’s all sorts of information that schools need to provide to parents, and traditionally...

Author: jamesbmarshall Date: 11/26/2012

Office 365 today or wait for the next version

As you may have seen our Office Team is targeting simultaneous releases of the Office 365 service,...

Author: Michael Icore Date: 10/16/2012

Getting started with your upgrade from Live@edu to Office 365 for education

Are you planning and preparing for your upgrade to Office 365 from Live@edu? You may already have...

Author: DerekSeymour Date: 10/10/2012

Office 365 for education Deployment Resources

Over the last few months I’ve come across some fantastic resources to help customers deploy...

Author: jamesbmarshall Date: 10/05/2012

FBA customization with Office 365 and ADFS

First I'd like to give a shout out to Dmitrii who recently provided instructions on updating the FBA...

Author: GregK Date: 10/03/2012

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