January 2009 - Live@edu Community Blog - Microsoft Education Community

Enrolling existing email domains with Live@edu

A lot of our customers that sign up with Live@edu do so with a fresh new domain/sub-domain that is not currently used to support email for their institution, some however want to continue to use the same domain (e.g. contoso.edu) and replace a legacy...

Published Thu, Jan 29 2009 12:24 PM by Live@edu

New blog on ILM

M'colleague, Richard Wakeman has just kicked off his blog on ILM/MIIS. Any of you that lan on using this a a technology to sync your on-prem identities with the LiveID service would do well to check it out and start raming up on just how powerful...

Published Sun, Jan 25 2009 08:40 PM by Live@edu

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Implementing User Entitlements with ILM

Implementing User Entitlements with ILM Now that ILM is being utilized for more pervasive provisioning systems, we see more and more questions around how to perform user entitlements. The term “user entitlements” is used to describe privileges or personalized...

Published Sun, Jan 25 2009 10:50 AM by Wakeman's ILM Miisticks

Filed under: IDA, MIIS, ILM

Foreign-Domain Group Management with ILM

Since we began working with MIIS back in 2003, we have taken many different approaches to group management and member population. Perhaps the most familiar solution is the Group Populator program that is provided with MIIS 2003/ILM 2007. Later we were...

Published Sun, Jan 25 2009 10:47 AM by Wakeman's ILM Miisticks

Filed under: IDA, MIIS, ILM

Mail migrations to Exchange Labs

A topic that I get asked about from time to time by customers has to do with mail migration from a legacy mail service to Exchange Labs. We are still working on our own migration tools, but this is not to say that migration is impossible today; you do...

Published Thu, Jan 22 2009 03:31 PM by Live@edu

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Running parallel instances of CSVParser

A customer asked me about this during the week... the answer is yes, it is possible to have multiple instances of CSVParser running. Each full admin account that you create can have 2 instances of Powershell running (will rise to 3 soon) and in each session...

Published Sun, Jan 18 2009 04:50 PM by Live@edu

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Students and 'Tagging'

Just last week at the CES show, Microsoft released a new technology called Microsoft Tag - the site is here: http://tag.microsoft.com . So what is it, and how is this relevant to education? Well imagine putting posters up around your institution with...

Published Wed, Jan 14 2009 11:00 AM by Live@edu

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Mailboxes and LiveIDs for your students, LiveIDs only for your teachers

I had blogged previously on creating LiveIDs en masse for your institution through Live@edu but without the email service, and I wanted to expand on this scenario here a little. A common scenario that I encounter is that an institution wants to put their...

Published Tue, Jan 13 2009 10:21 PM by Live@edu

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Economy Guide for Education Institutions

A recurring theme that comes up a lot when I speak to customers is the effect the economic downturn is having on their budgets at a local level. Many have been asked to plan for significant percentage cuts in the light of budget freezes in this current...

Published Tue, Jan 13 2009 09:11 PM by Live@edu

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Exchange Team starting to 'lift the lid' on Exchange 14

As folks that are signed up for Exchange Labs through Live@edu may know, the underlying technology for the email solution is Exchange 14. This is the forth-coming version of Microsoft Exchange, which will ship from us at some point in the near future...

Published Tue, Jan 13 2009 08:46 PM by Live@edu

Live Mesh wins a Crunchie award!

I just spotted that Angus Logan , who is currently at the 2008 Crunchie Awards in San Francisco, is blogging on Microsoft winning a award for Best Technology Innovation/Achievement! I also had to smile at Steve Clayton's blog on this ... in the UK...

Published Sat, Jan 10 2009 12:52 PM by Live@edu

An Accepted Domain scenario - a large School District

As you may know, and might even have tried out, Exchange Labs supports Accepted Domains. There is an article on Technet that describes this feature in some more detail here , and I previously blogged on this, including giving a setup demo here . Just...

Published Sat, Jan 10 2009 10:58 AM by Live@edu

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Happy Live@edu New Year!

The first post of 2009... so what to say? Well first of all, thanks to those of you that have signed up for the program, and of course all of my readers in 2008. According to my little ClustrMap widget , I have now had visits from 2961 unique IP addresses...

Published Fri, Jan 2 2009 03:03 PM by Live@edu

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Enrolling existing email domains with Live@edu

New blog on ILM

Implementing User Entitlements with ILM

Foreign-Domain Group Management with ILM

Mail migrations to Exchange Labs

Running parallel instances of CSVParser

Students and 'Tagging'

Mailboxes and LiveIDs for your students, LiveIDs only for your teachers

Economy Guide for Education Institutions

Exchange Team starting to 'lift the lid' on Exchange 14

Live Mesh wins a Crunchie award!

An Accepted Domain scenario - a large School District

Happy Live@edu New Year!