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

Group Chat Capacity Planning Documents Released today

I have been asked by customers for Group Chat scalability documents and we have just posted these today. Step 1 Deploy the Group Chat QFE update to increase scalability Deploy the Group Chat QFE here to increase the Group Chat scalability which...

Published Mon, Nov 30 2009 04:27 PM by The Three UC Amigos

Filed under: Group Chat Server, scalability

The Cambridge and Oxford College IT conference

Early this morning, Dominic and I jumped into our respective cars to head to Cambridgeshire, to present a keynote for the third Cambridge and Oxford College IT Conference , held at the Imperial War Museum in Duxford . It’s quite an unusual conference...

Published Fri, Nov 27 2009 06:15 AM by The UK Higher Education Blog

Filed under: Events, video, Oxford University, Cambridge University

£750M of savings in schools – and some ideas to get started

Yesterday, at the SSAT Conference, Ed Balls took to the stage to talk about the need for more efficient resource management in schools. The Guardian kicked off the coverage this morning, with their dramatic headline “ Ed Balls tells schools to make £750M...

Published Fri, Nov 27 2009 01:00 AM by Microsoft UK Schools News Blog

Filed under: Saving Money, case study, Twynham School, LGFL, DCSF

A plain English Guide to Data Protection

I keep an eye on the Information Commissioner’s Office press releases on their website ( in the hope that we’re not going to see schools appearing too often ), where I suspect they have a busy Press Officer producing a constant stream of news (last 2...

Published Thu, Nov 26 2009 12:21 PM by The UK Higher Education Blog

Filed under: free stuff, downloads, data handling, information security

Windows 7 multi-touch at BETT

One of the nice features in Windows 7 that’s not had much coverage is multi-touch. I think this is mainly because few of us have multi-touch laptops or screens. However, when you see it in action, it’s the kind of thing that makes you think “ I want one...

Published Wed, Nov 25 2009 03:53 AM by Microsoft UK Schools News Blog

Filed under: Windows 7, BETT

How to make a beautiful school SharePoint site

On Monday I shared some UK Education SharePoint websites that I described as beautiful, and which had been created by UK education establishments. And the opinion around the office was that the Twynham School Sixth Form website was the most astonishing...

Published Wed, Nov 25 2009 01:27 AM by Microsoft UK Schools News Blog

Filed under: sharepoint, SharePoint in education, developers, Twynham School

Putting an interactive map onto your school website

A little while ago, Microsoft acquired Multimap ( which I liked, because Multimap was my favourite way of getting directions and decent maps ). And you may have noticed over the last few months that Multimap and Bing maps have been getting closer together...

Published Tue, Nov 24 2009 09:55 AM by Microsoft UK Schools News Blog

Filed under: free stuff, bing.com

How do I enable Exchange 2010 MWI with Call Manager 7.x?

With Exchange Server 2010’s new messaging waiting indicator feature, my customer, from a school district in Colorado, was trying to get this to work. Here is a reference I found: To enable MWI 1) Open Cisco Unified CM Administration 2) Click System > ...

Published Mon, Nov 23 2009 07:02 PM by The Three UC Amigos

Filed under: Unified Messaging, Exchange Server 2010, Message waiting indicator, MWI

The OneNote 2010 Beta is out! Download it today and join our Connect site to give us feedback

Hi folks - it's been a while since I've blogged because we've been very heads down in getting the OneNote 2010 Beta ready. As you have hopefully heard, the Beta has been released and you can d ownload the Office 2010 beta here: www.microsoft...

Published Mon, Nov 23 2009 01:36 PM by OneNote and Education

Filed under: OneNoteneNote 2010 Beta

Making a beautiful SharePoint site for a school

I know that lots of people are using SharePoint in their school – or have it provided to them by their local authority. When you install SharePoint “out of the box”, it is fair to say that it isn’t something that whacks you between the eyes shouting out...

Published Mon, Nov 23 2009 01:20 AM by Microsoft UK Schools News Blog

Filed under: sharepoint, SharePoint in education, communications, design

Scaling up Innovation

The Microsoft UK Education team has a dozen people in it (surprised?) who are focused full-time on education – across schools, colleges and universities. Which means that we’re awfully busy and spread across many, many things all the time. But fortunately...

Published Thu, Nov 19 2009 06:15 AM by FE blog

Filed under: free stuff

Planning for BETT 2010

BETT is the big event in the education ICT calendar, not just for you but for us as well. Knowing that 30,000 people will flood through the doors of Olympia in about 7 working weeks tends to focus our minds on making sure that we put on a good show for...

Published Thu, Nov 19 2009 02:22 AM by Microsoft UK Schools News Blog

Filed under: Events, Windows 7, office 2007, BETT, Office 2010, launches, Announcement

Office 2010 Beta Available

Office 2010, SharePoint 2010, Project 2010 and Visio 2010 have all reached the Beta milestone and are now available for download . Remember how sometimes you felt smug when you were running Windows 7 Beta at least 6 months before your colleagues and friends...

Published Wed, Nov 18 2009 02:52 PM by FE blog

Filed under: Beta, free stuff, free downloads, download, Office 2010

SCOM Management Pack for your office cofee maker

This out to sell some SCOM: http://blog.coretech.dk/opsmgr07/opsmgr-2007-r2-scom-coretech-coffee-monitor-management-pack-0001/...( read more )

Published Wed, Nov 18 2009 01:37 PM by Microsoft Higher Education Tech NE

Filed under: Fun stuff

Office 2010 Beta is out

We will keep you updated for Academic Edition testing opportunities as well. Today, at PDC in Los Angeles, Microsoft announced the public beta release of Office 2010, SharePoint Server 2010, Visio 2010, Project 2010, Office Web Apps for business customers...

Published Wed, Nov 18 2009 01:10 PM by Microsoft Higher Education Tech NE

Filed under: Beta, Office

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