March 2009 - Blogs from the Microsoft Field - Microsoft Education Community

MOSS as a LMS?

One of our partners - AppointLink did a nice job customizing SharePoint at Yale Law School. Essentially they were able to replace Backboard LMS with SharePoint functionality. This may not supplant all of your LMS needs but in many cases its good enough...

Published Mon, Mar 30 2009 07:23 AM by Microsoft Higher Education Tech NE

Filed under: Edu Applications, MOSS

R2 Edge: What do I need from a Network perspective?

This was a question from a national vocational university. They wanted to know if they needed multiple NICs/VLANs and a Perimeter for OCS R2 Edge since they didn’t have one already. One or two NICS? The answer is two NICs are now required for OCS...

Published Thu, Mar 26 2009 05:13 PM by The Three UC Amigos

Filed under: OCS, R2, firewall, Edge, Certificates, IP, VLAN, Network

Expanding your LiveMeeting Investment

Whether your school has made an investment in the Live Meeting service hosted by Microsoft, or if you utilize the Web Conferencing capabilities of Live Meeting on premise, you are probably realizing great cost-savings and efficiency benefits from the...

Published Wed, Mar 25 2009 03:37 PM by It's all about edU

Filed under: Education, Technology, Web Conferencing, Tools, Distance Learning

New Case study - Leveraging IAG and AppV for distance learning

We published a new case study recently. It highlights how IAG and App-V can be combined to build a distance-learning or remote access solution in the Education sector. http://www.microsoft.com/casestudies/casestudy.aspx?casestudyid=4000003808...( read...

Published Wed, Mar 25 2009 12:20 PM by Microsoft Higher Education Tech NE

Filed under: Edu Applications, Virt

The Rosetta Stone - SBC

A session border controller is a device that can provide signaling and media streams in voice over IP networks. It’s usually involved in setting up, conducting, and tearing down sessions (or telephone calls) as well as other interactive media communications...

Published Wed, Mar 25 2009 10:54 AM by The Three UC Amigos

Promote your R2 rollout and give them some training

There are some nice banners, posters, stickers, etc to use for your rollout. There is also some nice end user leave behinds you can use: Grab the material here . More R2 Communicator specific training here . More Live Meeting training here . ...

Published Tue, Mar 24 2009 07:20 AM by The Three UC Amigos

Filed under: Training, OCS, R2, Communicator client, end user

Microsoft Virtualization Event in Waltham 4/29 (Waltham, MA)

Server and desktop virtualization is one of the most significant technology advancements in IT environments today, as a key enabler of the next generation data center. With the introduction of Microsoft®, Hyper-V™, server virtualization becomes truly...

Published Mon, Mar 23 2009 11:30 AM by Microsoft Higher Education Tech NE

Filed under: Events, Virt

Convert your Live Meeting recordings to WMV format

New Conversion Tool A new conversion tool just came out that takes a Live Meeting recording package (service or OCS server) and converts it to a WMV file. This allows you to stream your OCS meeting to playback. Benefits include multi-cast...

Published Fri, Mar 20 2009 09:36 AM by The Three UC Amigos

IE8 RTW very soon

IE8 is going to release to the web very soon. It wil not come down via Windows Update for several weeks. Just like IE7 there is a blocker toolkit for when it does. Contact matthic for more information. IE8 launch is coming soon. Get your public site ready...

Published Wed, Mar 18 2009 12:22 PM by Microsoft Higher Education Tech NE

Filed under: Interop, Software

Forefront has RTM’d for OCS

FSOCS provides protection against malware in IM communications and is designed for OCS 2007 and OCS 2007 R2. It has multiple scanning engines to facilitate scanning. It also can use content filtering in schools to provide protection against inappropriate...

Published Tue, Mar 17 2009 06:26 AM by The Three UC Amigos

Windows Hied Conference – 2009 Edition

For the 3rd time in about 4 years, the US Education vertical is hosting around 100 IT Pros from universities all around the country (and the world) in Redmond for a three day conference. This is organized by a committee from the Windows HIED listsrv...

Published Mon, Mar 16 2009 02:17 PM by It's all about edU

Live Search Credits program for Edu

This program is called Search@Work and the basic idea behind it is in return for using Microsoft’s Search Engine www.live.com you will receive service credits that you are able use towards support training and more. Below is additional information on...

Published Mon, Mar 16 2009 12:15 PM by Microsoft Higher Education Tech NE

Filed under: Edu Applications

Do You Love OneNote?

If you're like many of us on this blog, you have a special place in your heart for OneNote. I wanted to let people know about a new OneNote site up called http://www.iheartonenote.com/ . I encourage folks to join this community, share your knowledge...

Published Wed, Mar 11 2009 07:12 AM by OneNote and Education

What are my choices for Exchange Server in the cloud?

This was a question I was asked from a university in the Midwest who was interested in moving from another email platform to Exchange in the cloud. As you may or may not know, we are extending Exchange Server and Office Communications Server into...

Published Tue, Mar 10 2009 02:46 PM by The Three UC Amigos

Filed under: BPOS standard, Outlook Live, Cloud, Exchange Online

Fewer Ports for A/V in OCS R2

One of the things we did in R2 is review the edge topology and made significant changes in operation. We went from 20,002 inbound traffic from the Internet to 2 ports for inbound traffic. OCS provided UDP and TCP ports for Federated Audio/Video...

Published Tue, Mar 3 2009 06:38 AM by The Three UC Amigos

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