EDU Technical Blogs from the Field

How do I enable the new Internet Calendar Sharing (.ICS) with Exchange 2010 Sp1?

This was a question asked by a university in North Carolina. (Screenshots courtesy of the Exchange product team) What can I share my calendar with? Basically any platform that supports iCal (.ics) format can consume this such as Google, Zimbra...

Published Thu, Sep 2 2010 09:22 AM by The Three UC Amigos

Filed under: Exchange 2010, SP1, ics, internet calendar sharing

New OCS 2007 R2 Cumulative Update 6 available

Office Communications Server 2007 R2 OCS_2007R2_CU6 968802 MS download OCS2009-dbupgrade 968802 MS download Office Communicator 2007 R2 OC_2007R2_CU6 2028888 MS download Office Communicator Phone Edition 2007 R2 OCPE_2007R2_CU6 2267962...

Published Wed, Sep 1 2010 10:58 AM by The Three UC Amigos

Exchange 2010 SP1 is here!!!!

Lots of improvements around archiving and discovery, faster OWA, upgraded mobility, and several management tool improvements. Can’t wait to install on my servers.Exchange Server 2010 SP1 is now available for customer download here . Link to info...

Published Wed, Aug 25 2010 10:16 AM by The Three UC Amigos

SQL Web Cast Series for Education

Join us for a series of informative webcasts on data management and how SQL 2008 enables data driven decision making at scale in education—each Thursday starting at 10:00 a.m. Register for these online sessions by clicking on the hyper-link imbedded...

Published Tue, Aug 17 2010 08:54 AM by Microsoft Higher Education Tech NE

Filed under: Events, SQL

Co-brand, customize, print and ship marketing materials for Live@edu and Office 2010 Student Select/Student Option. FREE OF COST!

Microsoft Edu Marketing now offers a customizable print on demand tool for our schools that offer MS Office for Windows via a Student Select agreement. This will enable you to take our current marketing campaigns and customize them with your school logo...

Published Tue, Aug 17 2010 07:23 AM by Microsoft Higher Education Tech NE

Filed under: Office, S+S

What are the preliminary beta CS14 hardware specs?

“Frontend” (FE) Spec •CPU 8 cores (Dual Quad-Core) 2.00 GHz+ •12 gigabytes (GB) RAM •Attached storage (hard disk drive 10,000 rpm+, 72GB+) •Applicable to other roles (Edge, Monitoring/Archiving) •2 network interface cards (NICs) 1 GB per second (GBps...

Published Mon, Aug 16 2010 04:17 PM by The Three UC Amigos

Filed under: Sizing, Hardware, cs14

Interactive Classroom released

The Interactive Classroom add-in for PowerPoint and OneNote is now available for download as of last week: http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=D93F4CB5-E2BB-4543-A3BB-CD6A8ECB42CC&displaylang=en Microsoft Interactive Classroom...

Published Mon, Aug 16 2010 12:55 PM by Microsoft Higher Education Tech NE

Filed under: Edu Applications, Software

Education Virtualization Webcasts Aug/Sept

With lower budgets and smaller IT staffs, Education customers need more from their IT investments. More Compatibility. More Flexibility. More Value. One solution that more and more education institutions are turning to is virtualization technology. Microsoft...

Published Mon, Aug 16 2010 12:52 PM by Microsoft Higher Education Tech NE

Filed under: Events, Virt

Do I use Forefront TMG or Forefront UAG for reverse proxy publishing for Exchange 2010?

I get asked this quite a quite a bit and I couldn’t find a consistent answer. My colleague, Steve Scholz, provided me this useful feature matrix as when to use UAG for publishing Exchange 2010 and when to use TMG: To summarize, either UAG or TMG will...

Published Mon, Aug 16 2010 07:16 AM by The Three UC Amigos

Filed under: Exchange 2010, TMG, UAG

Education Cloud Computing Video

This is new and pretty simple video of our education cloud vision but it clearly lays out our Software+Services strategy: Microsoft Cloud Computing for Education Here are a couple of large Microsoft cloud education wins I want to showcase: 2 Million...

Published Sun, Jul 25 2010 02:15 PM by The Three UC Amigos

Filed under: Exchange Online, education cloud

Avepoint session on SharePoint 2010 migration in Waltham 8/3

Focus on: Secure, Lossless Migration to Microsoft SharePoint Server 2010 Microsoft SharePoint Server 2010 is poised to revolutionize how organizations connect their people, processes, and information. Many organizations, however, are still searching for...

Published Mon, Jul 19 2010 07:33 AM by Microsoft Higher Education Tech NE

Filed under: Events, MOSS

How did MS IT deploy Exchange 2010?

I get asked this quite a bit for a reference architecture. We just published our MS IT Whitepaper on how and what we did for deploying 180,000 mailboxes on Exchange 2010. There is excellent information in there around Exchange 2010 best practices...

Published Fri, Jul 16 2010 09:56 PM by The Three UC Amigos

Filed under: Exchange 2010, MS IT, deploy

What are some of the top changes coming to the next release of BPOS (Online Services) for education?

I have been asked this by several education customers evaluating our cloud solution so I put together a top 10 list of our proposed upcoming online services features (diagrams from our product teams or personal screen shots): 1) Single Sign On...

Published Thu, Jul 15 2010 11:24 AM by The Three UC Amigos

Filed under: bposv2, bpos14, online services

Interop with Windows Messenger

One of the presentations at Teched went over this and I haven’t seen anyone mention this but it will be a big deal in education. Since many of our customers are already introducing Live@edu for students with respect to email and Exchange 2010 this inclusion...

Published Mon, Jul 12 2010 10:40 AM by The Three UC Amigos

iOS4 iPhone/iPod touch patch needed for using ActiveSync against Exchange server

If you missed the note and you have iOS4 (new iPhone or new iPod Touch running the iOS4) users please ensure you add the new configuration profile patch to the latest iPhone or iPod Touch prior to connecting to Exchange Server or Exchange Online. ...

Published Fri, Jul 9 2010 08:54 PM by The Three UC Amigos

Filed under: iOS4 patch

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