Live@edu Community Blog

WIN with “Kountdown to Kinect”

Live@edu — Wed, 08 Sep 2010 23:20:34 GMT

The Live@edu team wants to help your school promote the services to your users. Every day for 60 days, one lucky student at your school could win an Xbox 360 and the highly anticipated Kinect just by entering the sweepstakes and replying to the confirmation...(read more)

Yuba Community College District launches Live@edu

Live@edu — Thu, 02 Sep 2010 06:35:56 GMT

Join me in welcoming Yuba Community College District to Live@edu . Over 60,000 accounts are hot off the press, and ready for action! Jonny...(read more)

Office Web Apps gets an upgrade

Live@edu — Wed, 25 Aug 2010 15:54:13 GMT

… and yes, it applies to Live@edu customers also. Check out the blog post from the Office team here: http://blogs.msdn.com/b/officewebapps/archive/2010/08/23/10053373.aspx . Very excited at the prospect of being able to show off some of this shiny new...(read more)

Sioux City Schools sets the standard in Iowa with Live@edu

Live@edu — Mon, 09 Aug 2010 14:51:57 GMT

This fall, students and teachers in Sioux City, Iowa will be in for a pleasant surprise when they arrive back to school. Sioux City Schools selected and is deploying Live@edu email and collaboration services to approx. 7,000 students and teachers. While...(read more)

Full Armor releases their Data Migration Tool for Live@edu

Live@edu — Thu, 08 Jul 2010 00:01:08 GMT

FullArmor just announced today that they have released their MailPortal Migrator tool to help customers migrate data from on-premises Exchange to Outlook Live, and to migrate away from GMail; this is part of their broader MailPortal offering . This is...(read more)

Kaplan Higher Education builds Online, On-Campus Communities with Hosted Services

Live@edu — Sat, 03 Jul 2010 13:23:43 GMT

Hi folks, Erik Desbois here, Solution Specialist for Live@edu working alongside Jonny, out of the east. Thought I’d drop a quick line to let you know we’ve just finished working with Kaplan University to onboard over 300k student accounts. Kaplan focuses...(read more)

2 new Live@edu whitepapers

Live@edu — Wed, 30 Jun 2010 04:35:30 GMT

Following on from the Exchange Web Services Whitepaper we released a weeks ago, we now have a couple more to get you tinkling the programming ivories. I talk a lot to customers and ISVs about the development possibilities for Live@edu, and the flexibility...(read more)

Twin Valley School District goes with Live@edu

Live@edu — Thu, 24 Jun 2010 04:51:23 GMT

Twin Valley School District’s Live@edu case study has just been published … this is another great story in K-12 for all concerned. Here are some of the quotes for your reading pleasure: “We looked at Google Apps for Education because it was being promoted...(read more)

CSI posts the first of several demos of their Live@edu-based offering

Live@edu — Mon, 21 Jun 2010 17:55:32 GMT

A while back, CSI Technology Outfitters announced a partnership with Microsoft to deliver value-added services to K-12 institutions on top of the Live@edu platform. You can now see the first of several demos of what they will be shipping here...check...(read more)

K-12 Tip: Selecting domain names for different classes of users

Live@edu — Tue, 15 Jun 2010 05:16:30 GMT

Live@edu gives you lots of flexibility in mapping domain names for your users. I’ll demonstrate some simple concepts using my demo domain namespace: Live@edu.info . Here are some things to think about: 1) Protection for admin accounts: You can obscure...(read more)

University of Washington rolls out Live@edu

Live@edu — Tue, 15 Jun 2010 04:15:27 GMT

I appear to be in case study announcement mode at the minute… there are just so many stories coming down the pipe right now for Live@edu… but this one makes reference to PowerShell … so that makes me very happy :) So… my good friends across the water...(read more)

Northern Kentucky University rolls out Live@edu

Live@edu — Mon, 14 Jun 2010 14:44:53 GMT

The Live@edu news from the Bluegrass State of Kentucky keeps on coming. A new case study from Northern Kentucky University has just been released, and it speaks of: Savings of U.S.$200,000 annually Expanded storage for easier email communications No more...(read more)

Pembina Trial School District goes Live@edu

Live@edu — Fri, 11 Jun 2010 22:18:56 GMT

Another great story, this time in Canada. Enjoy Jonny...(read more)

Office Web Apps now available on SkyDrive!!!

Live@edu — Tue, 08 Jun 2010 14:35:52 GMT

That’s right, Live@edu customers just got a killer upgrade to their SkyDrive service. The Office Web Apps on SkyDrive have officially left the Technical Preview days behind and are now fully released to customers in the US, UK, Canada, and Ireland. Check...(read more)

State of Kentucky rolls out Live@edu to 700,000 users

Live@edu — Fri, 04 Jun 2010 00:24:36 GMT

This was BIG NEWS TODAY … one of the biggest stories we have had the pleasure of being a part of for Live@edu to date, in fact. The Kentucky Department of Education today “cut the ribbon” on a humungous Live@edu deployment that will provide out full suite...(read more)