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

Is there a way to stop outbound spam attacks from inside my campus?

This was a question from a college in Colorado. They had a student email account hijacked from a phishing scam and it was then used for a mass outbound spam attack. The question became: How I can prevent this? Is there a way to throttle outbound...

Published Fri, Feb 26 2010 09:40 PM by The Three UC Amigos

Filed under: outbound send limit, outbound spam throttling

What are the hardware requirements for a combined Exchange 2010 HUB/CAS role?

I was asked this by a school district in Minneapolis that was deploying Exchange 2010. I have seen this becoming a popular deployment option since CAS is proc heavy (3 proc cores for every 4 mailbox proc cores) and Hub is not as proc heavy (1 proc...

Published Thu, Feb 25 2010 09:46 AM by The Three UC Amigos

Filed under: capacity planning, CAS hub combined sizing

How can I prevent students from IMing executive management?

This was a question from a school district in Illinois. They wanted to prevent the students, hosted in OCS, from finding management via a search in OCS and accidently IMing/video chatting with them. There is an ethical wall sample script written...

Published Mon, Feb 22 2010 09:20 AM by The Three UC Amigos

Filed under: ethical wall, isolate IM

Virtually saving money

Virtualisation again. Just to remind you if you’re still not up with it, virtualisation is shorthand for replacing your bank of network servers with just a few, more powerful ones, each housing a number of virtual servers. And why has it suddenly become...

Published Mon, Feb 22 2010 01:43 AM by Microsoft UK Schools

Filed under: hyper-V, Saving Money, Windows Server 2008, case study, Money Saving Tips, carbon emissions, West Hatch High School

Guidelines on web usability – useful for university web projects

When I wrote the Good Blogging Guide last year, I concentrated on audience, purpose, search and writing like a real person. What I spent little time on was the technical side of blogging and the web – navigation, usability, content such as images, and...

Published Mon, Feb 22 2010 01:23 AM by The UK Higher Education Blog

Filed under: sharepoint, Good Blogging Guide

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Published Fri, Feb 19 2010 04:32 AM by Microsoft UK Schools

Filed under: blogs, email

Free anti-virus protection for staff and student owned computers

I was suprised to discover I hadn’t blogged this before. So if you’ve renewed an anti-virus subscription for your home computer since last October, when this was launched, then I’m sorry! We have launched a free anti-virus programme, Microsoft Security...

Published Fri, Feb 19 2010 01:17 AM by Microsoft UK Schools

Filed under: Students, Security, Saving Money, free stuff, free downloads, Money Saving Tips

Kodu Game Lab – using gaming to interest students in programming

I know it’s half-term, and therefore most teachers aren’t in school. But then, there’s more time to play with new stuff in half-term! So I thought I’d blog it anyway. There aren’t enough students studying computing subjects – this PC Pro article’s chart...

Published Thu, Feb 18 2010 02:03 AM by Microsoft UK Schools

Filed under: Students, free stuff, free downloads, download

Free anti-virus protection for home computers – good news for staff and students

I was suprised to discover I hadn’t blogged this before. So if you’ve renewed an anti-virus subscription for your home computer since last October, when this was launched, then I’m sorry! We have launched a free anti-virus programme, Microsoft Security...

Published Thu, Feb 18 2010 12:34 AM by The UK Higher Education Blog

Filed under: Students, Security, free stuff, downloads, announcements

How can I analyze my public folder usage?

I was asked this by a university in Arizona with thousands of public folders. I found a free tool call PfRep on our Codeplex site that will analyze and help clean up Exchange 2000/2003/2007 public folders via visual color coding (red is heavily...

Published Wed, Feb 17 2010 08:31 AM by The Three UC Amigos

Filed under: public folder analyzer, usage

Upgrading and virtualising to save money

The Microsoft worldwide case studies site always throws up some interesting things to read. But a couple of weeks ago I noticed that a new case study of a UK school had been published by our services team, in partnership with Dell. It’s from Lodge Park...

Published Wed, Feb 17 2010 06:34 AM by Microsoft UK Schools

Filed under: Saving Money, Windows 7, Windows Server 2008, case study, Virtualisation, Money Saving Tips, carbon emissions, Lodge Park

Creating school websites – guidelines on usability

When I wrote the Good Blogging Guide last year, I concentrated on audience, purpose, search and writing like a real person ( I hear voices saying “Look at yourself Ray, you’ve forgotten it all already!”) . What I spent little time on was the technical...

Published Wed, Feb 17 2010 02:04 AM by Microsoft UK Schools

Filed under: sharepoint, blogs, Good Blogging Guide, blogging, Websites

Optimising remote access – and saving money

If you are providing secure remote access to your IT systems for staff, then you may want to review whether there are more efficient ways of enabling it. Especially now that there are sophisticated built-in capabilities in the Windows systems that you...

Published Wed, Feb 17 2010 01:08 AM by The UK Higher Education Blog

Filed under: Saving Money, Windows 7, information security, carbon emissions, case studies

Introducing Microsoft Flashcards

Body: It is my privilege to introduce to you the Microsoft Flashcards project, the latest project from Microsoft Education Labs. Flashcards is a tool that helps you create, share, and most importantly, study flashcards more efficiently. Flashcards offers...

Published Tue, Feb 16 2010 04:57 PM by Education Labs: Posts

Filed under: Flashcards

Finding good practice with ICT around the world

One of the easiest ways to see what is possible is to look at what other schools have done. We publish lots of 'case studies' on our worldwide website, and I had a quick look to see how many examples are there for UK Education institutions. The...

Published Tue, Feb 16 2010 11:23 AM by Microsoft UK Schools

Filed under: Live@EDU, case study, Dean Close School, Lodge Park

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