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

Assigning the Password Reset capability to a group of users

Yesterday I met with a school district that has many tens of thousands of students in it across a lot of schools. The district HQ manages IT for all of those schools with a primarily centralized staff, and several mobile personnel who do break/fix on...

Published Tue, Mar 31 2009 09:34 AM by Live@edu

A PowerShell walkthrough of the Standard Distribution Group Properties Outlook Live UI

I had a long conversation with a customer the other day during a workshop I was doing. The topic of conversation got around to managing distribution groups programmatically through PowerShell – not just creating them ( something I have dealt with separately...

Published Mon, Mar 30 2009 06:34 PM by Live@edu

High School Student discusses Office Live Workspaces

While browsing the Office Live team blog, I came across a post by David Alexander detailing a nice video recorded by a high-school student called Maurice . Given that the commentary had an educational scenario bias, I thought it would be nice to repost...

Published Thu, Mar 26 2009 06:58 PM by Live@edu

New features in Office Live Workspaces

For those customers that are using Office Live Workspaces, you should know that we have recently updated the service to contain some new key features. I lifted the description of these from the Office Live Team blog . Folders – To simplify organization...

Published Thu, Mar 26 2009 06:44 PM by Live@edu

Powershell cmdlet for creating a new mailbox in Outlook Live

I am working with a customer who is building a self-service web application that allows users to register their own LiveID/Mailbox on Live@edu; something I hope to be able to share more about at some point soon. A question came up today about the PowerShell...

Published Mon, Mar 23 2009 08:00 PM by Live@edu

Where have my Tasks gone in Outlook Live?

Some customers may have noticed in Outlook Web Access for Outlook Live that the Tasks folder has disappeared. This is in fact the case, but Tasks in OWA will return sun-tanned and ready for action again in our next service iteration, R4, several months...

Published Mon, Mar 23 2009 02:52 PM by Live@edu

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Populate a Standard Distribution Group with members using a CSV file

Related to my previous post on creating groups from a csv file , I thought I would take this one stage further and also think about how you can populate the group with members. In this case, I am keeping the csv file simple… a simple pairing of a group...

Published Sun, Mar 22 2009 09:55 PM by Live@edu

Create a bunch of Standard Distribution Groups from a CSV file

Some customers make extensive use of standard distribution groups in Outlook Live to organize and communicate with users. Just like it is possible to create and manage mailboxes with CSV files… the same is true of groups, and you can write a script to...

Published Sun, Mar 22 2009 09:35 PM by Live@edu

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Setting a DisplayName of Lastname, Firstname using CSV Parser

Several customers I have spoken with recently want to use the CSV Parser PowerShell script with a CSV file to set the DisplayName attribute for user mailboxes to LastName, FirstName… for example: Smith, John. To do this, you basically need to put double...

Published Sun, Mar 22 2009 08:40 PM by Live@edu

Exchange Server in the cloud

A topic that comes up in conversations I have with customers from time to time has to do with all of the different ways Exchange can be consumed as a service. Well… m’colleague, Mark Garcia has just blogged on this here: http://blogs.technet.com/ucedsg...

Published Tue, Mar 10 2009 11:11 PM by Live@edu

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Quickly update your mailboxes with an a single attribute

A customer asked me today if there is a quick way to modify an attribute across all of their mailboxes with the same value. The attribute in question was PostalCode. There are a several different ways to do this… probably the best way is to use the CSV...

Published Mon, Mar 9 2009 02:41 PM by Live@edu

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Restricting a mailbox so that it can only receive mail from certain people/groups

A customer asked me about the Conference Room post I made a few days back… and wondered if it is possible to restrict who can book a resource like this. It is… having a look at the set-mailbox documentation on Technet here: http://technet.microsoft.com...

Published Wed, Mar 4 2009 09:41 AM by Live@edu

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Assigning the Password Reset capability to a group of users

A PowerShell walkthrough of the Standard Distribution Group Properties Outlook Live UI

High School Student discusses Office Live Workspaces

New features in Office Live Workspaces

Powershell cmdlet for creating a new mailbox in Outlook Live

Where have my Tasks gone in Outlook Live?

Populate a Standard Distribution Group with members using a CSV file

Create a bunch of Standard Distribution Groups from a CSV file

Setting a DisplayName of Lastname, Firstname using CSV Parser

Exchange Server in the cloud

Quickly update your mailboxes with an a single attribute

Restricting a mailbox so that it can only receive mail from certain people/groups