October 2008 - Live@edu Community Blog - Microsoft Education Community

Make Your Campus Live - new site launches today

Today, the Live@edu program team launched a new site, aimed at students, with the purpose of raising awareness of Live@edu. Please pay a visit here: http://www.livecampus.net/ . The entire site is built on our Silverlight technology , so it is interactive...

Published Fri, Oct 31 2008 04:17 PM by Live@Edu Blog

Don't put all your admin eggs in one admin basket

That's bad use of the metaphor, but anyway... One of the first things I usually tell new Live@edu admins to do is to create additional administrative accounts. This is of course for number of reasons such as avoiding losing the username and password...

Published Fri, Oct 31 2008 03:34 PM by Live@Edu Blog

Have you messed with Mesh yet?

One of my favorite things to come out of the Live team's portfolio of products is Mesh ... and I am a bit of a geek about it. Mesh combines the online storage capabilities of SkyDrive with the peer-to-peer sharing capabilities of FolderShare . While...

Published Thu, Oct 30 2008 10:56 PM by Live@Edu Blog

An education overlay on the PDC announcements from MS

So the big Educause event is on this week, and many of my team members are there waving the flag for Microsoft. We also have the Partner Developer Conference running in parallel with this. This year the big story is all around Software + Services , which...

Published Wed, Oct 29 2008 10:31 AM by Live@Edu Blog

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Simple 'Getting Started' guide for new 'Live@edu'Users'

I will be running a drop in lab for some students soon in a University computer lab, and in support of this, I pulled together a simple lab manual that people could use to walk through some of the Live@edu applications. I will be placing a copy of this...

Published Tue, Oct 21 2008 02:40 PM by Live@Edu Blog

community submitted scripts related to Exchange Labs

We got our first script related to working with Exchange Labs submitted to the blog...thanks to Jonathan Holman of Tennessee State University! You can find it here ; he is using it to query their AD for newly created user accounts and then creating a...

Published Fri, Oct 17 2008 07:44 PM by Live@Edu Blog

Filed under: Exchange Labs

for those of you sending me messages through the blog...

I get quite a few messages sent to me through the Messages feature in my blog...but sometimes folks forget to set their communication settings so that I can respond to them. This change can be made in your profile settings. Don't forget, you can also...

Published Fri, Oct 17 2008 07:04 PM by Live@Edu Blog

Cannot run PowerShell scripts you have downloaded?

I have a few emails from customers because they have not been able to run PowerShell scripts that they have downloaded from the Internet; csv_parser.ps1 is an example. What is happening here is that when you download the file, your browser (IE, Firefox...

Published Thu, Oct 16 2008 12:01 AM by Live@Edu Blog

Exchange Labs in an iFrame...

A lot of customers would like to be able to 'brand' the look and feel of how Exchange Labs is presented to end users with their own look and feel. This can be done inside of the OWA Premium experience by using co-branding, you can add your own...

Published Tue, Oct 7 2008 10:39 PM by Live@Edu Blog

Creating Exchange Labs Mailboxes using the CSV Import Tool

While I have to say I prefer to use PowerShell to create mailboxes as I like to do some customization of the scripts, if you simply want to create a load of mailboxes in one go, the CSV Import tool will do the job just as well. There is a good collection...

Published Sun, Oct 5 2008 05:52 PM by Live@Edu Blog

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How do I know what PowerShell cmdlets are available in Exchange Labs

Customers often ask me what all they can do through PowerShell with Exchange Labs. There are several resources I always refer to, but sometimes it is nice just to have a list in front of you. General resources you can use are: Scripting with PowerShell...

Published Wed, Oct 1 2008 04:01 PM by Live@Edu Blog

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Enabling External Forwarding for Exchange Labs email

A college was asking me the other day about enabling external email forwarding for Exchange Labs. This is not a feature that is on by default, but you can enable it in a few minutes by logging on to your service through PowerShell, creating a runspace...

Published Wed, Oct 1 2008 03:29 PM by Live@Edu Blog

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Make Your Campus Live - new site launches today

Don't put all your admin eggs in one admin basket

Have you messed with Mesh yet?

An education overlay on the PDC announcements from MS

Simple 'Getting Started' guide for new 'Live@edu'Users'

community submitted scripts related to Exchange Labs

for those of you sending me messages through the blog...

Cannot run PowerShell scripts you have downloaded?

Exchange Labs in an iFrame...

Creating Exchange Labs Mailboxes using the CSV Import Tool

How do I know what PowerShell cmdlets are available in Exchange Labs

Enabling External Forwarding for Exchange Labs email