BFC Networks have been working with different customers throughout the UK to understand their needs when deploying Office 365 into their education establishment. As we see more uptake of some of the core products in Office 365 such as Exchange, SharePoint Online and OneDrive for Business we have seen make requests and concerns around accessing … Continue reading OneDrive Configurator: Accessing Student OneDrive for Business
There are different scenarios around how the new Office 365 free offering of Office 365 Pro Plus and it is important to know this if you are a council/district, college or IT Manager for your school. Microsoft offering Office 365 Pro Plus is great but does come with different configurations to your Office 365 tenant … Continue reading Understanding More of the Free Office 365 Benefits to Students
So the title is correct – you can now get Microsoft Office for free if you are Student and Teacher. Its known as friction free but how does it work and where do you go to get it? The solution is part of Office 365 and even if your school doesn’t have it, you can … Continue reading Get Microsoft Office for Free: Students and Teachers
In an post last night on the Microsoft in Education Blog, Anthony Salcito announced that Office 365 Pro Plus is now available to teachers as well as students. Some time ago Student Advantage was released where schools could request from the Microsoft Licensing Reseller licenses for their students and get Office 365 Pro Plus as … Continue reading How to get Office 365 ProPlus Benefit for teacher & FAQ
It was back in 2008 when I first met Dave Coleman along with Mike Herrity when they made a 3 hour drive from their school to visit mine in Birmingham. It was a strange occasion where we learnt that our lives were crossed with each other in more ways than one even though we were … Continue reading Tribute to Dave Coleman
As Microsoft are starting to role out Groups to all Office 365 tenants we might have the need to disable the function of creating them. Groups are a great feature but you may not be ready for them, want to create training material before giving them to user or only allow certain users to create … Continue reading Prevent Users from Creating Groups in Office 365
Over the past 6 years I have been privileged to be awarded Microsoft SharePoint MVP but over the last 2 years since the release of Office 365 Education I have seen my time and community work shift from just SharePoint to Office 365. I’m really excited to announce that I’m now an Office 365 MVP … Continue reading Awarded Microsoft Office 365 MVP
Did you know there were two ways of getting Office 365 Pro Plus when you get the license in Office 365. With E3, A3 and the individual licenses you get the ability to use Office on your local desktop using a form of streaming and caching on your machine to so you can use Word, … Continue reading #Office365 Pro Plus: Click to Run vs Office on Demand
Since it was first announced that Yammer was being made available to Office 365 Education customer for no additional cost, I’ve seen a fair few people and individual waiting for it to be added so they can use the enterprise solution for collaboration for groups, classes and teaching and learning. Well we’ve had to wait … Continue reading Adding Yammer to your Office 365 education tenancy
There are currently two ways of implementing Student Advantage licenses to your Office 365 Education tenancy. Both of these are descripted below depend on the code you get from the Microsoft licensing site. Implementation 1 Log into your Office 365 Education Tenancy Select purchase services from the left navigation and navigate down until you … Continue reading How to Implement Student Advantage in Office 365 Education
