A few weeks ago I wrote a blog post about changing licenses from the Office 365 Education license to the Office 365 Plus Education license. This PowerShell script will help you to make these changes. In the last week, further integration of Yammer and Office 365 has accord where we can now disable the Yammer … Continue reading Disable Yammer License in Office 365 Education
We have seen many changes to Office 365 but Office 365 Education changes even more as Microsoft given more free services to education establishment worldwide. Back in September 2015, Microsoft gave some of the E3 features to Office 365 and renamed the license from Office 365 E1 for Student (Faculty) to Office 365 Education for … Continue reading Change All Faculty and Students to Office 365 Edu Plus Licenses
You may or may not have noticed that on the 1st September Microsoft announced new security features for Office 365 Education users however these weren’t new as they have been in the platform for a few years. Education licenses have been aligned more to the enterprises licenses with E1 Student/Faculty matching E1 Enterprise and as … Continue reading Office 365 Edu Licensing Change – we get more for free 🙂
This week sees the online conference called Collab365 http://www.collab365.events/ which is run over 24 hours with sessions from great names from around the SharePoint and Office 365 community. Alongside at the same time of the record sessions, there are live sessions part of the Collab TV hosted by different people from around the world. I’m … Continue reading Live Session: Are Team Sites Dead? #Collab365
Over the past few months I’ve noticed more Office 365 solutions and Add-Ins that use OneDrive as the location to store data. This has always concerned me as I see OneDrive for Business a very different solution to others so I hope this brings some clarity to my thinking and hopefully start a discussion where … Continue reading OneDrive is not the location for Business Data
In the past 9 months we have seen a new add-in added to all Office 365 Education tenants which has encouraged people start using OneNote as a tool in the classroom allow a teacher and their students to view and share notes between each other. The tool have moved through a few updates and is … Continue reading OneNote Class Notebook Implementation Guide
At the recent Microsoft Ignite, it was announced that Sway was coming to Office 365 and that it would be here for First Release Office 365 tenants in the next month. Well we were pleased to see it added to some of our customers with those settings today (21st May). So what does it look … Continue reading Sway now in Office 365
I always enjoy presenting and having done three presentation at the recent SharePoint Evolution Conference, it has left be buzzing and look forward to speak to more people soon. Managing Security and Permission in SharePoint: Level 100 Next Generation Portals in Office 365: Level 100 Office 365 Groups Deep Dive Continue reading Slides from SharePoint Evolution Conference
It has been a strange few years for me as I’ve looked to bring in a new company which evolves itself around an ever changing platform called Office 365. Having spent years working with SharePoint and Microsoft technologies in the education space, I’ve been able to build a good understand of how the two work … Continue reading Future of Microsoft Technologies in Schools: The IT Mans Challenges
It was great for me to share with you on the “Next Generation Portals” coming out of Microsoft at the moment. Here some links regarding some of the portals and features we talked about. Office 365 Groups How to disable Office 365 Groups Office 365 Video Office Mix Office Sway Continue reading #SUGUK Manchester: Next Gen Portals: 7/4/2015