January 2010 - Blogs from the Microsoft Field - Microsoft Education Community

Microsoft at BETT 2010 – the world’s largest Education IT exhibition

As you’ll know, the BETT Show in January is a major event for schools in the UK, and also a major event from Microsoft too. After months of planning, it’s all over in four days, and we then get a chance to recuperate from the week. After the show, it...

Published Fri, Jan 29 2010 01:28 AM by Microsoft UK Schools

Filed under: Events, free downloads, BETT

Top 10 ICT Money Saving Tips – 9 – Stop your email servers

Part nine of the series of Top 10 ICT Money Saving Tips for schools , based on my BETT 2010 presentation When the DCSF issued their " Securing our Future " Discussion Guide ( download the PDF version ), it was accompanied by dire headlines in...

Published Wed, Jan 27 2010 02:34 PM by Microsoft UK Schools

Filed under: Collaboration, Live@EDU, Saving Money, email, Money Saving Tips, SkyDrive

New blog header today

My colleague Ben Nunney (who’s a Live@edu deployment specialist, a blogger , and a tweeter ) sits behind me, and was mortally offended by my suggestion that you could do some nice graphic stuff in PowerPoint, and save yourself some Photoshop grief . I...

Published Wed, Jan 27 2010 10:00 AM by Microsoft UK Schools

Filed under: blogs

A new way to add interactivity and quizzes to PowerPoint presentations

A few years ago I bought a keypad set so that I could create polls and quizzes in PowerPoint. But over time, I drifted away from using them, as it became increasingly difficult to set them up. But I’ve come across something that might well re-ignite my...

Published Wed, Jan 27 2010 01:31 AM by Microsoft UK Schools

Filed under: Beta, free stuff, free downloads, teaching resources, teaching and learning

Forefront Idenity Manager 2/25 9-4 in Waltham

Business Ready Security – Identity and Access Management Microsoft Forefront Identity Manager for Governance, Risk & Compliance Date: Thursday, February 25, 2010 9:00 am to 4:00 pm Location: Microsoft Technology Center Waltham, MA This FREE one day...

Published Tue, Jan 26 2010 06:50 AM by Microsoft Higher Education Tech NE

Filed under: Events

Top 10 ICT Money Saving Tips – 8 – Stop buying so much software

Part eight of the series of Top 10 ICT Money Saving Tips for schools , based on my BETT 2010 presentation Yes, the one you thought you’d never see from me in this list of Top 10 ICT Money Saving tips! But here it is… Did you know that you can buy a subscription...

Published Tue, Jan 26 2010 03:30 AM by Microsoft UK Schools News Blog

Filed under: free stuff, free downloads, SQL Server 2008, design, Money Saving Tips, Visual Software, Visual Studio

School Closures, Snow Days and Learning Platforms.

Over the last few weeks, the papers have been full of stories about school closures across the UK – naturally so, as half of all schools were shut down for at least a day by snow and ice. And it’s given impetus to the important issue of how a school that...

Published Tue, Jan 26 2010 01:30 AM by Microsoft UK Schools News Blog

Filed under: learning platforms, learning gateway, Twynham School

Download the Office 2010 Beta and get a head start

The Office 2010 Beta is available for free download from the Microsoft website , and it’s something that you could install on some of your campus computers to see what’s in it, and how it helps your staff and students. Remember how sometimes you felt...

Published Tue, Jan 26 2010 01:00 AM by The UK Higher Education Blog

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

Hardware sizing for Exchange Server 2010

I get asked this quite a bit by my education customers. How can I get a good estimate for sizing my Mailbox Server, Hub Transport, Client Access Server and Storage? The latest and greatest Mailbox Server Role Requirements Calculator v3.2...

Published Mon, Jan 25 2010 12:08 PM by The Three UC Amigos

Filed under: Sizing, Hardware, Exchange Server 2010, storage, stress tools

Download the Office 2010 Beta and find out what makes it good for the classroom

The Office 2010 Beta is available for free download from the Microsoft website , and it’s something that you could install on one of your school computers to see what’s in it, and how it helps your staff and students. Remember how sometimes you felt smug...

Published Mon, Jan 25 2010 08:00 AM by Microsoft UK Schools News Blog

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

Top 10 ICT Money Saving Tips – 7 – Stop printing so much

Part seven of the series of Top 10 ICT Money Saving Tips for schools , based on my BETT 2010 presentation. Late last year, I was chatting with a group of senior leaders in schools about the amount of paper that is used in a typical school (it had been...

Published Mon, Jan 25 2010 06:44 AM by Microsoft UK Schools News Blog

Filed under: sharepoint, learning platforms, SharePoint in education, learning gateway, Money Saving Tips, carbon emissions

Running the Cloud – statistic overload

A few years ago, when we first started the Live@edu email service , it was running on the same system as Hotmail. Since then we’ve moved it onto a completely Exchange-based system, which has actually been running Exchange 2010 for quite some time. And...

Published Mon, Jan 25 2010 03:51 AM by Microsoft UK Schools News Blog

Filed under: email, statistics

Safer Internet Day – 9th Feb 2010 – Resources to help prepare

European Safer Internet Day is coming up very soon – it’s two weeks today – and a wide range of organisations are encouraging all schools to run an activity to link in to the event. Whether that’s an assembly, a message in the school newsletter or a parents...

Published Mon, Jan 25 2010 01:54 AM by Microsoft UK Schools News Blog

Filed under: free downloads, Home Access Programme, download, free lesson plans, internet safety, online safety

Running the cloud

A few years ago, when we first started the Live@edu email service, it was running on the same system as Hotmail. Since then we’ve moved it onto a completely Exchange-based system, which has actually been running Exchange 2010 for quite some time. And...

Published Fri, Jan 22 2010 09:51 AM by The UK Higher Education Blog

Filed under: Cloud, Live @ Edu, Live, email

Looking for another Microsoft blog – take a look at the directory

My colleague Daniel Good, in America, keeps a directory of all of the Microsoft team blogs – those that are run by, or on behalf of, Microsoft teams. It’s a really handy reference if you’ve got a burning interest in a subject, product or programme. It...

Published Fri, Jan 22 2010 09:21 AM by Microsoft UK Schools News Blog

Filed under: Education, TechNet, blogs

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