It is always a great honour to share what I learn with the community and its a great honour to be awarded by Microsoft for this. Having been away for a few days and coming back to find an email saying ‘Congratulations, Awarded Microsoft MVP’ it is great feeling and I look forward to sharing … Continue reading Awarded Microsoft SharePoint MVP 2012
One of my tenancies for live@edu got an email last week stating it can be upgraded to Office 365 for education. Want to know what it looks like? See below. Hello, ##School Name## is invited to upgrade from Live@edu to Office 365 for education now. You preserve and extend your investment in the world’s leading … Continue reading Waiting for that Live@edu to Office 365 for education Migration email?
Microsoft have started sending information out to different school about their current tenancy and it’s migration to Office 365 for education. Here’s that information if you don’t receive the emails. Office 365 for education will provide free Exchange Online, SharePoint Online and Lync Online to students, faculty, and staff. Starting in summer 2012, Microsoft … Continue reading First Step for migrating to Office 365 for education from Live@Edu
Microsoft have announced and shown off their own hardware in the tablet/slate wars calling it the Surface. Available in two specifications and multiple colour keyboards, this is a device to keep your eye on as Microsoft release their next OS, Windows 8. No price has yet to be given for either specs but it is … Continue reading Microsoft show off the Surface featuring Windows 8
I have a few customers that I look after from a live@edu point of view so I receive notification from Microsoft about updates to the customers tenancy such as SSO certificates as well as Microsoft general update emails. I have received a very interesting email in the last week which might help answer a few … Continue reading Live@edu Customer Update: Updates to SkyDrive
Microsoft have released a set of SharePoint 2010 templates that you can use in your current SharePoint environment in your schools. The templates are free and can be downloaded from here. There are 2 main templates in the WSP Solution that you download from the Microsoft site. You can upload this as a sandbox solution … Continue reading SharePoint Education Templates from Microsoft
As more and more educational institutions are migrating to cloud services, Microsoft have secured 7 million more users for their live@edu email service in India but there are a few changes to the Live services that are part of live@edu then you need to be aware of. New users to SkyDrive as of the 22nd … Continue reading Notice to all Live@edu Customers around SkyDrive and keeping 25GB Cloud Storage
During two weeks of March I was able to spend my time in Australia and New Zealand presenting at the SharePoint conferences in Melbourne and Auckland. I was able to give 2 presentations at both conferences talking about SharePoint in Education and also Office Web Applications. I would like to thank Debbie Ireland and the … Continue reading Slides from Australian and New Zealand SharePoint Conferences
I thought that I would share my slides from speaking at CIUEN yesterday in Lyon, France. I would also like to thank Microsoft France (and Ray Fleming for his recommendation) for this great opportunity. Continue reading Slides from CIUEN: Cloud in Education
Ever since the 7th February 2012 which was Safer Internet Day I have been wondering how I could build and share some kind of Report Abuse system in SharePoint that you could build into your own SharePoint environment. Safer Internet Day was run to make kids and teenagers aware of what to share on the … Continue reading Build your own Report Abuse for students in your school: Part 1