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Controlling access to the Connected Accounts UI

In Outlook Live, the Connected Accounts facility is a great way to consolidate several inboxes into your Outlook Live inbox; we have many customers using the service today. For some customers, however, this is a service that they would like more control...

Published Wed, Mar 17 2010 10:36 AM by Live@edu

Live@edu and DreamSpark – give your students free professional tools from Microsoft

As I like to post… Live@edu is not just about providing your students with access to free collaborative tools and an email service… there are all sorts of goodies out there that Microsoft offers that are too compelling to ignore :) One such offer is our...

Published Mon, Mar 15 2010 07:57 PM by Live@edu

City University of New York on Live@edu

I am happy to announce yet another large customer that has made the choice to move ahead with Live@edu. City University of New York , with 260,000 students and 23 campuses is the largest urban public university in the United States… that’s about 8 times...

Published Wed, Mar 3 2010 10:19 AM by Live@edu

Specifying a time zone for a new mailbox prior to first logon

A question that comes up every so often has to do with how a time zone can be set for a new mailbox user prior to their first login. Left to its own devices, Outlook Live will default to some server-based timezone for all users, but it will ask them to...

Published Thu, Feb 25 2010 03:58 PM by Live@edu

Federated Identity support on Live@edu – coming soon to an IdP near you…

A question I often get asked by customers considering Live@edu is something along the lines of “ How do I get my Active Directory/other identity platform to work with Live@edu? ” This is a question that I usually follow up with some qualification questions...

Published Wed, Feb 24 2010 07:58 PM by Live@edu

Audit Logging in Outlook Live

A feature that I am finding not many folks know about in Outlook Live is Audit Logging . This is a service that an administrator can use to track PowerShell commands that are either being run directly through the PowerShell client, or indirectly through...

Published Thu, Feb 18 2010 11:05 PM by Live@edu

Microsoft Education Labs launches Flashcards

I am always on the lookout for applications that students and educators can use that: Make use of the LiveID that they have from the Live@edu program. Are compelling to use. Our Microsoft Education Labs team has just launched an application called Flashcards...

Published Thu, Feb 18 2010 10:36 AM by Live@edu

Safe-listing your internal mail servers with the Service Management Portal

A very important and sometimes overlooked step in the deployment process for Live@edu is the IP safe-listing process. This process helps ensure proper mail delivery from your internal mail systems to users hosted on the Outlook Live service. Safe-listing...

Published Tue, Feb 16 2010 02:17 PM by Live@edu

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Kalani High School rolls out Live@edu

We have just released a case study on Kalani High School’s adoption of Live@edu. I had the pleasure of visiting with Kalani to hear first hand about how Kalani are complementing a 1:1 laptop rollout with the benefits of Outlook Live and Office Live Workspaces...

Published Fri, Feb 12 2010 07:06 PM by Live@edu

Webcast alert: Connecting your Learning Community with Microsoft's Education Portal Solution

There is a great Education webcast on the horizon that will be presented by one of our MS Services Architects, Bob Pfeiff . Check it out… If you cannot attend, the session will be recorded and accessible from the same place. From the site: Through attending...

Published Fri, Feb 12 2010 06:44 PM by Live@edu

New Partner resources for Live@edu

We are excited to announce three online resources that are key to the Live@edu strategy of building partner capacity. Partner scale is incredibly important to the continued growth of Live@edu because partners provide customer engagement, deployment services...

Published Wed, Feb 10 2010 12:12 PM by Live@edu

SADA Systems offering a hosted LiveID SSO solution

I had previously blogged on some of the services that SADA Systems offers for Live@edu . They just sent me a short video demo of this solution in action. The idea is that if a customer does not want to host an SSO page in their own environment, SADA can...

Published Fri, Feb 5 2010 11:19 AM by Live@edu

New! Digital Storytelling Resources for K-12 Teachers: Free e-book included!

Microsoft has a new set of resources to help you with a Digital Storytelling project in your classroom. Digital storytelling is a great way to engage your students to use digital images and video in a compelling student-centered project in your classroom...

Published Tue, Feb 2 2010 11:21 AM by Live@edu

For K-12: Some Options for Dealing with Pictures in Email

This is Barbara Chung again, invading Jonny’s blog, with something for those of you in K-12 environments. Compliance is a big issue, and dealing with various filtering requirements is a major part of that. There are a lot of good options for building...

Published Tue, Jan 26 2010 08:57 AM by Live@edu

New K-12 Case Study!

This is Barbara Chung, Live@edu SSP, jumping in on behalf of the estimable Jonny Chambers. Yesterday Microsoft published a new K-12 case study with Marion County Public Schools—link here: http://www.microsoft.com/casestudies/Case_Study_Detail.aspx?CaseStudyID...

Published Tue, Jan 12 2010 07:33 PM by Live@edu

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