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UK Education Cloud BlogLearn about Microsoft Office 365 Educationhttp://blogs.msdn.com/b/ukeducloud/atom.aspxTelligent Evolution Platform Developer Build (Build: 5.6.50428.7875)2013-07-01T13:19:58ZTop 5 tips for a successful back to school on a budgethttp://blogs.msdn.com/b/ukeducloud/archive/2014/08/18/top-5-tips-for-a-successful-back-to-school-on-a-budget.aspx2014-08-18T14:40:08Z2014-08-18T14:40:08Z
It's school time again! A time of mixed emotion – exciting to be back in the thick of things but maybe a little sad that summer is over. Your first day of school might be full of all or many new things: new teachers, new friends, and maybe even a new school!? Whether a fresher in school or in college, there's no better way to start the year than by having the confidence in knowing that you're armed with all the right things it takes to be successful.

Gone are the days when all a student needed was stationary and a backpack. Now, more than ever, parents and students rely on technology to keep on top of all the demands of school and life.

To help get Back to School 2014 started on a winning note, we've put together five valuable tips that are guaranteed to get you the most out of your technology and your education this year.

1. Check if your school/college/university has Student Advantage: Access to the latest and most widely used productivity solution in the world at no cost to you

Student Advantage not only gets you 5 copies of Office for your PCs and Macs but also allows Office for iPad apps installed on up to 5 tablets. With one subscription all of your devices are covered, so you can work the way you want, from where you want….at no cost to you!

2. Take notes in OneNote: Free app for most popular computers, tablets, and phones and on the web

This year, make OneNote the single place for all your notes and information. With this digital notebook you can type, handwrite or sketch your thoughts, paste and insert class notes and research, clip links and webpages, and organize them in notebooks and sections that are automatically saved and searchable. Additionally, it's easy to share and collaborate with classmates for team projects and group assignments.

3. Keep it in OneDrive: Free app for most popular computers, tablets, and phones and on the web

Here are five reasons to cross that USB-drive off your shopping list and use OneDrive:  1) You get 15 GB of cloud storage for free; 2) You can't lose OneDrive; 3) You can easily store and share photos, videos, documents, and more; 4) You can access OneDrive on any device; 5) You get 1 TB of OneDrive cloud storage with an Office 365 Education subscription (Plan A2 is free) through your institution. 1 TB is the equivalent to approximately 50,000 trees made into paper and printed!

4. Use Yammer: Yammer + Office 365 = Social Productivity

Yammer is the new cool social network. Included in your school's O365 Education subscription, Yammer allows you to be part of a new kind of learning that is more engaging and more connected to real life and better prepares you for life and work in today's world. Yammer allow you to get connected to the right people, share information across project teams or organize around projects so you can go further – faster.

5. Take the Acer Aspire Switch 10 to class: £299.95

Not only does this device save you some serious cash, it's the ultimate convertible device that makes you look cool. Rain or shine, it can be used in four modes – use it as a tablet, notebook or put it in tent mode to watch movies, or give a presentation. Not to mention, it's compact and sleek so you can rest assured you've got a good looking device at a screaming deal!

Whether you have a big budget to spend on technology for back to school, or you already blew it all, Office 365 Education is here to help make sure you have everything you need to succeed this year, and that you look good.

Good luck students and parents!

Sarika Raohttp://blogs.msdn.com/sarikaur_4000_hotmail.com/ProfileUrlRedirect.ashxYammer available with academic plans beginning today!http://blogs.msdn.com/b/ukeducloud/archive/2014/07/08/yammer-available-with-academic-plans-beginning-today.aspx2014-07-08T09:30:29Z2014-07-08T09:30:29Z
Great news, beginning today Yammer Enterprise will ship with all Office 365 A plans at no additional cost. The availability was announced yesterday in this blog post.

Schools are facing increasing pressure to provide faculty, staff and students with the highly connected tools and information that both match today's consumer social networking experiences and are at the forefront of 21st century learning models.

Microsoft's vision for Enterprise Social is to empower institutions to work like a   network. By connecting individuals to a dynamic network of people and information, we help schools, teachers and students listen, adapt, and grow in new ways, enabling them to form better partnerships, communicate and collaborate faster and achieve their goals of deep learning.

With Office 365 and Yammer, schools can foster a new kind of learning that is more engaging and more connected to real life and better prepares young people for life and work in today's world.

Yammer Enterprise provides all of the features of Yammer Basic but adds branding, security, and administrative features that enable customization and protection of the private network.

Features shipped with plans A2, A3 and A4 include:

The option to create a custom design so you can brand the network with the school's look and feel

Advanced configuration settings that provide overall user governance and content management

Robust security controls that help manage network access and security

The ability to export network data for reporting, retention, and analysis

Advanced integrations including Directory Sync and Single Sign-on

You can learn more about Yammer and the academic plans by visiting these sites.

Customer Success Center

Office 365 Education Plans

Yammer Plans and Pricing

Please speak to your Microsoft reseller about deploying Yammer.

Sarika Raohttp://blogs.msdn.com/sarikaur_4000_hotmail.com/ProfileUrlRedirect.ashxOffice for iPad: Some Common Questions Answeredhttp://blogs.msdn.com/b/ukeducloud/archive/2014/04/07/office-for-ipad-some-common-questions-answered.aspx2014-04-07T08:54:20Z2014-04-07T08:54:20Z
Further to our recent announcement that Office for iPad is now available, I just wanted to take this opportunity to share some additional information that hopefully addresses some of the queries I have been receiving via email and Twitter over the last week around both the apps and how best to license them for your faculty and students.

Reading, viewing and presenting your content is available for free and if you have a valid Office 365 ProPlus license you can also create and edit Office documents on your iPad. This license is part of the A3 SKU and the Student Advantage SKU within Office 365 Education so you can now provide this to your faculty and students. The following deck below gives an overview of the various options available.

Office on iPad Commercial Licensing Deck from Microsoft Education UK

Office for iPad has been written specifically for the iPad and takes full advantage of the unique features of the device that are perfectly suited for keyboard and mouse free use. The Office for iPad apps have a familiar look and feel, though, and content created using the apps will look amazing across all your devices.

Furthermore, much like Office on a PC or Mac, collaboration and review sits at the heart of Office for iPad. Multiple people can work simultaneously on the same document. Just make sure that its saved to OneDrive, OneDrive for Business or SharePoint so that others can access your document.

The Office for iPad apps can be downloaded directly from the App Store and can be run on up to 5 devices. Faculty and students will need to be running IOS 7 on their devices.

For a full overview of Office for iPad in action, take the time over a coffee to watch the video below that discusses the array of Office experiences now available across multiple platforms - including Office for iPad. The whole video is worth checking out, but if you want to just watch the iPad related content, just jump to the 10 minute mark.

Cross Platform Office Experiences Update - Featuring Office for iPad from Microsoft Education UK

So, as mentioned previously, if all you are looking to do with the apps is view content or present your PowerPoint material to colleagues, you do not need any additional licensing. Just download the apps for free from the App Store and you are up and running.

If, however, you want to open your documents from OneDrive for Business, edit or format content on the go or save back to any of our cloud based storage options such as OneDrive or SharePoint, you would need to look into the additional Office 365 subscription options.

If your Office 365 subscription ends, don't worry. You will still be able to view your Office documents with Office for iPad and the data on your device is not lost. You will not, however, be able to create and edit content on your iPad until the subscription has been renewed, and this can easily be done by signing back in with a valid Microsoft Account etc.

The table below may also be useful in terms of helping you understand the additional functionality that can be unlocked with an Office 365 Education subscription.

If you have any questions about how best to license your faculty or students for Office for iPad using Office 365 Education, please do not hesitate to leave us a note in the comments below.

Alternatively, drop your reseller a note and they will be delighted to help you with your query.

jamesbmarshallhttp://blogs.msdn.com/jamesbmarshall/ProfileUrlRedirect.ashxMicrosoft announces Office for iPadhttp://blogs.msdn.com/b/ukeducloud/archive/2014/03/28/microsoft-announces-office-for-ipad.aspx2014-03-28T12:00:10Z2014-03-28T12:00:10Z
Microsoft is devoted to providing the tools which enable people from all walks of life to work anywhere and on any device. The ever increasing portfolio of Windows based devices available lay testament to that and with over a billion users of Microsoft Office globally we are now delighted to share that Office for iPad has now been released and is available to download on Apple's App Store.

At the Mobile First, Cloud First Press Briefing yesterday Satya Nadella made his CEO debut and announced that the Office suite including Microsoft Word, PowerPoint and Excel would now be available for use on the iPad.

Within hours of the launch Word became the most downloaded application for iPads within the Apple's App store, with Excel and PowerPoint following closely behind.

At the event in San Francisco, Satya began by sharing some of the core foundations, this decision would be built upon:

"So first thing is about people. At the end of the day, if you look at our daily life, we have a set of activities that we do. We could be reading, we could be capturing, we could be listening, collaborating, organizing, researching. These are all activities that we do across a variety of devices. We're not bound, in fact, to one device, one place or one time. And the real goal for us is to step up to provide the applications and services that empower every user across all of these devices and all of these experiences. So that's perhaps the job No. 1 that we do, which is to empower people to be productive, do more across all devices."

He also added that the announcement was part of a strategy to empower people to be productive across all devices with Microsoft software.

"We are taking great focus and great care to make sure Office on any device shines through,"

For students and teachers wanting only to view and scroll through their documents on their tablet, the application is available for free, and for those wanting full functionality it will involve an Office 365 subscription (for example through Student Advantage, Office 365 ProPlus for Faculty, Plan A3, etc.).

For students and teachers this opens many doors, particularly in institutions where a BYOD infrastructure is in place, for those students unable to purchase a new device they still are empowered to use the best Microsoft Office productivity tools, with the device they already own.

Satya closed by saying "We are absolutely committed to making our applications run what most people describe as cross-platform great. There's no holding back of anything. It is about being able to excel everywhere our customers are. One of the questions is, is this a massive trade-off for you? There is no trade-off. It's reality for us. It's not a competitive reality. That's not what motivates us. What motivates us is the realities of our customers. What motivates us is to make sure that we build the great experiences that span the digital life and digital work of our customers, both individually and as organizations. And that's what you can count on us doing, both with Windows as well as other platforms. And that's what's driving us"

The official Office Blog talks more about the latest announcement "We thought a lot about what people want to do when they're on their tablet, iPad functionality, and touch-first when we were building Office for iPad. We reimagined Office on the iPad, while retaining what people love about Office. We hope you'll be as pleased with the results as we are. In the future, we will bring Office apps to the Windows Store and other popular platforms. In addition to Office for iPad, we've gone a step further in our mobile first and cloud first approach, and like Windows Phone, we've now made Office Mobile for iPhone and Android phones available for free"

Read the complete blog and FAQ here

Download the apps: Microsoft Word for iPad, Microsoft PowerPoint for iPad, Microsoft Excel for iPad.

jamesbmarshallhttp://blogs.msdn.com/jamesbmarshall/ProfileUrlRedirect.ashxOffice 365 Education in the Classroom eBook (now available)http://blogs.msdn.com/b/ukeducloud/archive/2014/02/11/office-365-education-in-the-classroom-ebook-now-available.aspx2014-02-11T09:54:01Z2014-02-11T09:54:01Z
This new eBook, Office 365 Education in the Classroom, concentrates almost exclusively on how Office 365 Education can help the teacher and the student in their day to day work.

We look at a whole list of teaching and learning scenarios, describing some of the ways in which hard- working teachers might be dealing with them now and going on to show how one or more of the functions within Office 365 Education can make things easier and better.

The full eBook can be viewed/downloaded below:

Office 365 Education in the Classroom from Microsoft Education UK

We will be posting additional complementary content, such as demo videos, to the blog over the next few weeks.

In the meantime, we would love to hear what you think of the eBook. Leave us your thoughts in the comments below.

jamesbmarshallhttp://blogs.msdn.com/jamesbmarshall/ProfileUrlRedirect.ashxStudent Advantage Deployment Guidehttp://blogs.msdn.com/b/ukeducloud/archive/2014/02/10/student-advantage-deployment-guide.aspx2014-02-10T09:32:52Z2014-02-10T09:32:52Z
Student Advantage is a volume licensing benefit where students get Office 365 ProPlus at no additional cost, provided institutions meet the following criteria:

1. Institution has an EES agreement or an OVS-ES agreement

2. Licenses 100% of Faculty/Staff organization wide for Office (i.e. Office 365 ProPlus, Office 365 Education A3 or A4, or Office Professional Plus 2013)

3. Institution places an order for Student Advantage licenses through their reseller

Since various institutions order licenses for Office 365 for Education differently, we have produced a handy ordering and deployment guide for you, with details of how to assign your licenses to your Students.

So, if you are an existing Office 365 for Education customer (either through EES or directly through our web site) with single or multiple tenancies or if you are a brand new Office 365 for Education customer please take a look at this deployment guide and FAQ to find out more about how to get up and running quickly

Any questions, please get in touch with your reseller.

jamesbmarshallhttp://blogs.msdn.com/jamesbmarshall/ProfileUrlRedirect.ashxEverything you need to know about Office 365 Educationhttp://blogs.msdn.com/b/ukeducloud/archive/2013/12/05/everything-you-need-to-know-about-office-365-education.aspx2013-12-05T11:10:03Z2013-12-05T11:10:03Z
I've been working with the education team at Microsoft for over 3 years now. In that time the education landscape, from a technology perspective, has changed massively. It's almost unrecognisable. The challenges and aspirations have evolved, the technology has matured, and it's easy to forget just how much there is to know! To make it a bit easier, in association with PC Pro Magazine, we've put together a guide on everything you need to know about Office 365 Education.

Everything you need to know about Office 365 Education

You can view the guide here below, or check it out on SlideShare – it's free! Here are some excerpts to whet your appetite:

What schools need to know about Office 365 Education (and what you can get for free)

Office 365 Education: Ask the OffPerts

Office 365 Education: Ask the Expert

Office 365 Education Special Report from Microsoft Education UK

Office 365 Education, it's more than "just Office in the cloud"

We're heading into the holiday season, so wouldn't it be nice to give something to your students? Starting December 1st Microsoft made Student Advantage available to qualifying schools, colleges and universities around the world.

Signing up for Office 365 is really, really simple. It's possible to co-exist with your existing mail solution, and there are ways to migrate your existing content too! It's more than just mail; there's SkyDrive Pro for storing work online; Lync Online for having conversations, distance learning and sharing ideas; and there's SharePoint Online to pull teaching resources together and make them easy to find.

Oh, and it's free too!

jamesbmarshallhttp://blogs.msdn.com/jamesbmarshall/ProfileUrlRedirect.ashxDeploying and Managing Office 365 ProPlushttp://blogs.msdn.com/b/ukeducloud/archive/2013/11/27/deploying-and-managing-office-365-proplus.aspx2013-11-27T10:24:58Z2013-11-27T10:24:58Z
It's a very exciting time to be an Office 365 Education customer. Student Advantage availability is just around the corner, and we've put a few posts up discussing how to get it, but it's also important to consider how you'll be deploying and managing Office 365 ProPlus.

Deploying and Managing Office 365 ProPlus

My colleague across the water, Mark Garcia, recently put a post up covering the various options for deploying Office 365 ProPlus, but I found this deck which I thought I would also share for you to view and download (there are videos in the deck).

Office deployment and management l300  from James Marshall

Getting Student Advantage

Remember, Student Advantage is just the name of the benefit – the actual technology, the bit that will make sense to anyone outside of education, is Office 365 ProPlus. If you're searching online, on TechNet, or MSDN, you might find that Office 365 ProPlus gets you to the answers you need.

We have a few posts that cover:

How to get Student Advantage if you're an existing Office 365 Education customer.

How to get Student Advantage if you're not an existing Office 365 Education customer.

How your students can access the software once you've assigned the licences.

And don't forget, TechNet has a great page on choosing the best deployment method to use; so check that out too!

What are you doing?

Everyone I speak to is excited about being able to offer their students Office 365 ProPlus at no additional cost1 and we'd like to hear about your plans and successes in the comments. Will this be a little pre-Christmas surprise for your students, or will you roll it out near exam season so your students have the latest tools to revise and study at home, or something else altogether?

Let us know, we'd love to share your story!

1 Institutions must cover 100% of their faculty/staff for Office on their volume licensing agreement to qualify for the Student Advantage benefit. For more information, please speak to your licensing reseller.

jamesbmarshallhttp://blogs.msdn.com/jamesbmarshall/ProfileUrlRedirect.ashxHow do I get Student Advantage in Office 365 Education? (Part Three)http://blogs.msdn.com/b/ukeducloud/archive/2013/11/19/how-do-i-get-student-advantage-in-office-365-education-part-three.aspx2013-11-19T14:55:50Z2013-11-19T14:55:50Z
In part one of this little trio I talked about how institutions who already have Office 365 Education can get access to Student Advantage, and in part two I looked at how students access the benefit. In this final part I'll look at what you need to do to if you don't already have Office 365 Education.

How do I get Student Advantage in Office 365 Education?

Office 365 ProPlus, which is the "proper name" for Student Advantage, is delivered through Office 365 Education. You might jump to the conclusion that in order to get it you must be using Office 365 Education for all of the other workloads that come with it, like Exchange Online, Lync Online or SharePoint Online. You'd be wrong.

Office 365 Education is a collection of many services:

Windows Azure Active Directory for identity

Exchange Online for email, calendaring, etc.

Lync Online for instant messaging, voice and video communication, etc.

SharePoint Online, SkyDrive Pro and Office Web Apps for document creation, storage and collaboration, etc.

Office 365 ProPlus for the full featured rich client experience of Office on the desktop and mobile devices.

The only required part of Office 365 Education is Windows Azure AD – that's the bit that controls the user accounts and licensing. Without it, there'd be no service. Everything else is optional. You can pick and choose which services you take; many start with Exchange Online, adding in other services later. Some will start with just Office 365 ProPlus (under Student Advantage).

You don't have to move away from your current email and collaboration services to pass on the Student Advantage benefit to your students! Although obviously, I think you should because the full Office 365 Education collection of services when run together is pretty awesome.

How to get started as quickly as possible: FastTrack

Now that we've cleared up the misunderstanding about how Student Advantage is delivered we can look at the quickest route to getting all signed up and ready to go.

As well as the resources I've put together on this blog, there's a very handy portal called FastTrack that takes the behemoth that is all of Office 365 Education and distils signing up to it into 3 simple steps: pilot, deploy and enhance.

In a nutshell, using FastTrack as a guide, you need to go through a few easy stages:

Sign up.

Verify academic eligibility by adding your domain to the tenant.

Create your user accounts either through a CSV file upload, or creating automatically from your local AD.

Follow the steps in part one of this blog trio.

Follow the steps in part two!

Beyond Student Advantage

It goes without saying that once your students are using Office 365 ProPlus they'll get even more value from it by pairing it with SkyDrive Pro and SharePoint Online, Lync Online and Exchange Online. Getting started with FastTrack for the purposes of getting Office 365 ProPlus is a great way to dip your toe into the water but consider piloting the other services and maybe working with a partner to roll them out over time.

Want to know what others are doing? Why not check out the University of West London's case study on how they use Office 365 Education to start a life-long connection to their students, or read how Warwickshire County Council created WeLearn365 for all schools in the county?

If you're using Google, maybe it's time to look at Office 365 Education – Birkenhead Sixth Form College did and they love it!

jamesbmarshallhttp://blogs.msdn.com/jamesbmarshall/ProfileUrlRedirect.ashxOffice 365 Education: Teaching and Learning Scenario - Lynchttp://blogs.msdn.com/b/ukeducloud/archive/2013/11/05/office-365-education-teaching-and-learning-scenario-lync.aspx2013-11-05T09:00:00Z2013-11-05T09:00:00Z
Guest blog post from Gerald Haigh. Gerald writes regularly for the Microsoft Education series of blogs.

Ramandeep has been absent from school for five weeks following a road accident. Recovery is slow, and there's still no firm date for her return. The school sends work home with her brother, but, as she tells her mum, she feels more and more cut off.

'I just don't feel I go to that school any more. I sometimes think they've forgotten me. When I first had the accident it was all fuss, and visits, and flowers and chocolates. Now I hardly ever see any of them.'

Next day, Ramandeep's mum went into school and spoke to Ramandeep's year leader.

'She's really down I hate seeing her like this. It can affect her recovery, and her work is going to suffer.'

He understood and promised to speak to Ramandeep's teachers and her friends, but he also made a mental note to follow up on a thought that niggled in the back of his mind. He went off to see the network manager.

'Sal, you know when we took on Office 365 Education, and we decided to move our email to it, and then get started on a proper online portal. Well, isn't there also something called "Lync"? I wonder if we could use it to solve this little problem.'

He explained what he had in mind. Sal thought it was a brilliant idea, and entirely possible, given a bit of advice from Microsoft, and a visit to the local university where they used Lync all the time to save travelling costs between two campuses.

Within a few days, the year leader and Sal had been round to see Ramandeep, with a tablet borrowed from the pilot 'Surface' project running in Year Seven, set up for Lync. And suddenly, there on her little screen was a tightly framed gaggle of familiar laughing faces – Ramandeeps's friends who'd been prepared in advance.

That was just the start. Over the next few weeks, Ramandeep had Lync tutorials with her teachers, about the homework they'd set. She 'sat in' on some lessons with her own class and, of course, had some personal sessions with friends. Many of the ideas, such as being able to take her turn at reading in assembly with the aid of a smartboard in the hall, came from Ramandeep herself.

Best of all, so far as Ramandeep was concerned, was that when she shared in a classroom session, she could record it to watch offline later.

'That's great, I often get things much better the second time,' she said.

(When Mr Johnson heard she's said that, he made a mental note to discuss lesson pacing with his colleagues)

'All this must be costing the school a fortune one way or another,' said Ramandeep's mum to Mr Johnson on one of her visits.

'Oh no,' he said. 'It's completely free to schools as part of our Office 365 package.'

'Unbelievable,' said Ramandeep's mum. 'I just know how much money and trouble went into the video conferencing set-up we have at work. I wonder if they know about this?'

By Christmas that year, Ramandeep was back at school, but the experience the school had with Lync during that time led to a whole lot of interesting innovations including screen sharing by staff during planning sessions. Integration with 'OneNote' also enabled staff working group members to share their ideas on what they were seeing on their screens.

For the near future, again based on the experience with Ramandeep, senior staff are hoping to run 'Virtual Parents Evenings'. Obviously these won't replace face-to-face meetings. The idea is to make Lync meetings available to specific parents who have genuine problems getting into school – they may be housebound, or work difficult shifts. Again the ability to record sessions is going to be really useful.

jamesbmarshallhttp://blogs.msdn.com/jamesbmarshall/ProfileUrlRedirect.ashxHow do I get Student Advantage in Office 365 Education? (Part 2)http://blogs.msdn.com/b/ukeducloud/archive/2013/11/04/how-do-i-get-student-advantage-in-office-365-education-part-2.aspx2013-11-04T13:30:02Z2013-11-04T13:30:02Z
In our last post, we looked at how an institution can associate Student Advantage licences with an existing Office 365 Education tenant. Today, we'll answer the question "how do I get Student Advantage in Office 365 Education?" from a student perspective.

Once an institution has allocated the Office 365 ProPlus licences that underpin the Student Advantage benefit students will not necessarily see anything different in their experience of Office 365. So, in the spirit of sharing, here are a couple of ideas for how to spread the word:

Send an email to all students informing them of the new software available to them.

Promote a link to the software through your student portal.

Put posters up around school / campus advertising the new software.

Use social media to communicate the new benefit.

The direct link, if you want to include it in communication, is: https://portal.microsoftonline.com/OLS/MySoftware.aspx but without the direct link, here's what you need to know…

Students will need to sign into Office 365 with their credentials in the usual way, such as through your SSO portal, directly into OWA, etc. Once there, click on the little sprocket in the top right-hand corner, and select Office 365 settings from the menu.

This will take you to your main settings page, where you can see all sorts of interesting things, but in the context of Student Advantage and Office 365 ProPlus we're only interested in the software link.

Clicking the software link will take you to the page, below, where you can access your Office 365 ProPlus software!

Simply select the appropriate language, and whether you want the 32-bit or 64-bit (click advanced to unlock that option) and then click install. Your Office 365 ProPlus experience will then begin.

If you're running Mac OS X then this screen may look a little different to let you download Office for Mac 2011.

Office Mobile for iOS and Android

One of the additional benefits of Student Advantage is that Office 365 ProPlus enables the use of Office Mobile for iOS for iPhones and Office Mobile for Android for Android phones. I wrote about this a little while ago, with links to the various stores (iTunes and Google Play).

The apps themselves are free, but require an active subscription to use. Download the app to your device, and sign in with your Office 365 credentials to get started.

jamesbmarshallhttp://blogs.msdn.com/jamesbmarshall/ProfileUrlRedirect.ashxHow do I get Student Advantage in Office 365 Education?http://blogs.msdn.com/b/ukeducloud/archive/2013/10/30/how-do-i-get-student-advantage-in-office-365-education.aspx2013-10-30T16:13:51Z2013-10-30T16:13:51Z
With a little under a month until Student Advantage becomes available (that's December 1st, put it in the diary!) one of the questions I am getting asked most frequently is: how do I get Student Advantage in Office 365 Education?

I'm going to cover this off in two posts, this first one to discuss how to get Student Advantage added to your existing Office 365 Education tenant. The second post will be a student-view; how to access and download the software.

Part One: How institutions get Student Advantage

Let's start with a recap of how you qualify. Any institution will need to meet some criteria:

You must have an OVS-ES or EES volume licensing agreement.

You must cover 100% of your faculty/staff for Office on that OVS/ES or EES agreement.

As long as you meet the criteria you'll need to contact your licensing reseller after December 1st to order the Student Advantage licences. What happens next depends on which volume licence agreement you have.

OVS-ES Customers

Once you've placed your order with your reseller you'll get sent a link to retrieve your keys from the Volume Licensing Service Centre (VLSC). Through here you'll see your product keys and be able to access the redemption interface to enter your keys into your tenant.

After you've entered the keys you'll have the licences available (note, the image below does not show the Student Advantage Office 365 ProPlus licences, it's just for illustration):

You can then follow the process for assigning these licences to your student users in the normal way; either via the admin centre, or Windows Remote PowerShell. These will be in addition to any other Office 365 licences a user may already have, such as Exchange Online Plan 1 or Office 365 Plan A2.

EES Customers

As with OVS-ES you'll need to contact your reseller to order the licences. Once the order is processed an email will be sent to the Online Services Manager, Notices Contact, or the Primary Contact. This email will contain two links: one to sign in, and one to sign up.

Whoever is going to process this email needs to ensure they are fully signed out of any and all Microsoft Online Services (this includes Outlook.com, SkyDrive, Xbox Live, Office 365, etc.). This will avoid accidentally attempting to associate the licences to the wrong place. Given that you'll already have a tenant with users in place you'll need to click sign in and authenticate with your Office 365 administrative credentials.

This process provisions the licences to your tenant, and once completed you'll be able to assign them to your users following whatever process you currently use.

Check back soon for part two where I'll cover how a student accesses their software once you've allocated their licence.

jamesbmarshallhttp://blogs.msdn.com/jamesbmarshall/ProfileUrlRedirect.ashxJoin us for a live Q&A on Student Advantagehttp://blogs.msdn.com/b/ukeducloud/archive/2013/10/29/join-us-for-a-live-q-amp-a-on-student-advantage.aspx2013-10-29T10:37:09Z2013-10-29T10:37:09Z
Since the recent announcement introducing Student Advantage almost a fortnight ago we've been inundated with questions. I'm super excited at the response to the news. As a result, we'd like you to join us for a live Q&A on Student Advantage at midday (GMT) on 31/10 on Twitter.

Live Q&A

We'll be tracking your questions and conversation on all things Student Advantage on the #SAFAQ hashtag. The two accounts to follow are @ukeducloud and @microsofteduk.

We'll kick off at 12pm, midday, GMT and we'll be around "live" for an hour. Of course, we'll answer any questions that come in at any point afterwards as well, just not so quickly!

To make things a bit easier we've already published an FAQ that might answer some of your questions, so please check it out!

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 	 I'm James Marshall, and I am the UK Office 365 Education technical specialist. I've worked with education cloud services since the days of Live@edu and I spend my days making sure people get the best experience from their Office 365 Education deployments, big or small! I can often been seen lurking as @jamesbmarshall on Twitter.

 	 Joining me is Tim Bush, the UK Education team's marketing supremo. Tim's been with the team almost as long as I have and runs the UK schools, FE and HE blogs, Twitter, SlideShare, as well as heads up all-things BETT for Microsoft. It's safe to say that Tim is the go-to guy for all things education when it comes to Microsoft. Tim can also be found on Twitter as @tbush.

jamesbmarshallhttp://blogs.msdn.com/jamesbmarshall/ProfileUrlRedirect.ashxMicrosoft offers students at eligible educational institutions access to full Office productivity suite for no additional costhttp://blogs.msdn.com/b/ukeducloud/archive/2013/10/15/announcing-new-student-advantage.aspx2013-10-15T11:02:00Z2013-10-15T11:02:00Z
As part of our on-going commitment to education, we are thrilled to announce Student Advantage, a new benefit to qualifying institutions which will make it easy for students to use the latest and best version of full Office at their education institution and at home.

Student Advantage - Office 365 ProPlus

So what does this mean? From 1st December, 2013, any institutions worldwide that licenses Office for staff and faculty can provide access to Office 365 ProPlus for students at no additional cost. As a result, more than 35,000 institutions worldwide are automatically eligible to deliver the Student Advantage benefit to their students.

Office 365 ProPlus includes all the familiar and full Office applications, such as Word, Excel and PowerPoint, and offers the ability for these to be locally installed on up to five devices and available offline.

Furthermore, when a school combines Student Advantage with our other cloud services - Exchange Online, SharePoint Online and Lync Online - of which all are available free through Office 365 Education, students have access to the same set of productivity tools and services used by Fortune 500 companies all over the world.

"Students use Office every day for school work and activities that are most important to them. Office not only helps students stay organised and get their work done today, but at the same time develops skills that will be required when they enter the workforce,"  said Antony Salcito, vice president of Worldwide Public Sector Education at Microsoft. "We are thrilled to offer Student Advantage to schools across the globe so students have access to the latest, most up-to-date version of the world's leading set of productivity tools in order to give them a competitive advantage when entering the workforce."

To help you learn more about this benefit to your students, we are going to be running a number of Q&A sessions via Yammer and Twitter over the next week. More details to follow via the blog and our Facebook and Twitter accounts.

In the meantime, if you have any immediate questions or queries, drop us a note in the comments below.

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jamesbmarshallhttp://blogs.msdn.com/jamesbmarshall/ProfileUrlRedirect.ashxLive@edu - End of an Erahttp://blogs.msdn.com/b/ukeducloud/archive/2013/10/14/live-edu-end-of-an-era.aspx2013-10-14T12:58:31Z2013-10-14T12:58:31Z
It gives me great pleasure in announcing that we have now completed the Live@edu Upgrade program to Office 365. In the course of just a year, we have upgraded over 9 Million users, equating to 5000 customers; this has been no small feat by our engineering teams, nor our customers and a little celebration is definitely in order.

Looking back over the road map for Live@edu you can see that Microsoft has always invested heavily in Education, ensuring that the services available to the academic sector are at the forefront of innovation. Since the outset, Live@edu has proved highly popular and grown rapidly, with institutions joining from all shapes and sizes. And in the past 8 years we have grown our user base from a few handfuls, to over 9 million.

Back in 2005, we set out to create a free cloud service for Education, providing institutions with free cloud hosted email, initially this was built on Hotmail and formed the primary base for what was then, MSN University. As the service was rolled out and trialled we gathered feedback asking for more functionality. We met these suggestions and added SkyDrive and Windows Live Messenger into the mix, providing a robust and free service that allowed students to store their data in the cloud and communicate with each other by IM and email.

In 2011 we launched Office 365, the new cloud service offering enterprise grade email, collaboration and IM services on SharePoint Online, Lync Online and Exchange Online; again free for Education and designed to eventually take the place of Live@edu. The beginning of this upgrade was announced in March 2012 and began formally as a program in July. Today marks the end of this upgrade program, meaning the closing of Live@edu in the UK.

I'd like to thank all of our customers for their enthusiasm and support; it has been an exciting and fascinating journey. In addition many of you will have completed our Service Upgrade, meaning you are on the latest version of Office 365 with access to all the benefits like SkyDrive Pro, which now has 25GB of online storage per user! Education is at the forefront of innovation with Microsoft and a crowning jewel in our Online Services portfolio; and just as we continue to listen and process your feedback, we will continue to add to and grow our service.

Kyle Edmund Hayeshttp://blogs.msdn.com/kyle_4000_kyleedmundhayes.me/ProfileUrlRedirect.ashxMiddlesex University drives IT efficiency. Find out how at Oxford Computer Group's free summit!http://blogs.msdn.com/b/ukeducloud/archive/2013/10/08/middlesex-university-drives-it-efficiency-find-out-how-at-oxford-computer-group-s-free-summit.aspx2013-10-08T10:38:59Z2013-10-08T10:38:59Z

In Education, the IT landscape is rapidly changing. Schools, colleges and universities need to provide IT more efficiently; supporting applications and services on-premise and in the Cloud, using modern devices. But what does it take to embrace modern IT and exploit its many benefits?

Join Oxford Computer Group and other HE organisations, for a free summit. You'll hear how to support modern IT in education and learn how to develop your roadmap. With high profile speakers from Microsoft and a case study from Middlesex University, Oxford Computer Group's eighth annual summit will be a highly valuable and informative event.

October 23 and 24, Microsoft Campus, Reading, UK
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With a strong focus on Microsoft identity and directory technologies, day one will consider how to achieve a comprehensive identity service with Forefront Identity Manager (FIM) 2010 R2 , AD, Windows Azure Active Directory  and AD FS 2.0. Day two focuses on Microsoft solutions for Cloud (such as Office 365), service automation and systems management including System Center 2012 and Windows Server 2012.

Register today. It's free to attend.

Gain valuable information for planning and IT strategy

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jamesbmarshallhttp://blogs.msdn.com/jamesbmarshall/ProfileUrlRedirect.ashxOffice 365 Education: Shared Calendarshttp://blogs.msdn.com/b/ukeducloud/archive/2013/09/30/office-365-education-shared-calendars.aspx2013-09-30T09:01:07Z2013-09-30T09:01:07Z
Guest post by Gerald Haigh. Gerald writes regularly for the education series of blogs.

Summer Term 2012, and your year eleven groups were on study leave. They were mainly a diligent, hard-working lot, and you smile when you think of them. So keen were they, in fact, that some of them couldn't keep away.

'Sonja Smith was here looking for you this morning,' a colleague told you one lunchtime early in the leave period. 'We couldn't find you and I didn't have your timetable. She was keen to ask you something that had come up in her revision. I think she was quite worried.'

She was just the first. Quite a few students called the school or came in on the off chance of catching you. Sometimes they were lucky and you were right there in the department office, or in the staffroom. Sometimes they waited around and eventually caught you. And sometimes they went away disappointed because they hadn't time to hang around.

Jump ahead now, to Summer Term 2013. Your year eleven groups were on study leave again, and again they were mainly a diligent hard-working lot. Again some of them couldn't keep away.

This time, though, there was to be no hanging around, or going away disappointed. This time you realised that if you put Office 365 Education to work, and did some forward planning, you might make study leave into a productive and enjoyable experience.

The secret, you realised, lay with Outlook Calendar, which you can share in whole or part with anyone you choose. So before study leave started you said to your groups.

'I'm going to share my calendar with you all, showing when I'm available – sometimes before school, sometimes after, some of my free periods, some of my PPA time, some lunchtimes. I know you're on your phones all the time, so keep checking because some of the availability might change – things can come up as you know. So if you want to see me, book into my calendar with a brief message saying what it's about. The rest of you keep an eye on all that, because you might find you want to come along to the same meeting. The key thing is – keep in touch. Keep checking the calendar.'

Did it work? Of course it did. The students really appreciated being able to book specific slots. There were times when so many people came along to join a meeting booked by one person that it became almost like a lesson – except it was more relaxed.

And did the students do well in their exams? Of course they did. It would be too much to claim that they did better as a result of Office 365 Education and calendar sharing, but in some cases it wouldn't be an unreasonable assumption. The whole exercise certainly did wonders for morale.

This blog is based, with thanks, on a conversation with Scott Wieprecht, Integrated Learning and Maths teacher at Saltash.net Community School, and on the work of the student group 'The Offperts'.

@MrWieprecht

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jamesbmarshallhttp://blogs.msdn.com/jamesbmarshall/ProfileUrlRedirect.ashxTop 10 Tips for Office 365 Educationhttp://blogs.msdn.com/b/ukeducloud/archive/2013/09/10/top-10-tips-for-office-365-education.aspx2013-09-10T14:56:33Z2013-09-10T14:56:33Z
Earlier this year I wrote 10 blog posts, each covering one of my top tips for Office 365 Education. As schools, colleges and universities across the country reconvene for the start of a new term, I thought it would be helpful to summarise my top 10 tips for Office Education in one handy place.

Office 365 is constantly evolving with new features being added, and existing features being improved; not to mention the fact that it is free to education. I can't pretend to know all the best hints and top tips so why not leave us yours in the comments?

Top Tip #10 – Blogging in SharePoint Online

Whether you want a class blog, or your own blog to share with your students the blogging capabilities in SharePoint Online allow teachers and students to quickly and easily write up their thoughts, ideas and showcase their progress in a secure environment. You can even customise the look and feel of the blogs to make them more appealing for younger pupils!

Top Tip #9 – Multiple Co-Authoring in Office Web Apps

Working on class projects has never been easier thanks to the Office Web Apps and their ability to support multiple authors of spreadsheets and documents at the same time! Being able to collaborate on work in the classroom (and at home!) is really important and the Office Web Apps enable anyone with access to a supported browser and an Internet connection to get involved.

Top Tip #8 – Excel Surveys

How many times have you needed to survey your students and staff for their feedback? This doesn't just apply to teaching and learning, but also the IT department, facilities, finance, almost anyone in the institution. It couldn't be more simple to create a survey in Excel that can capture a variety of answer types (yes/no, multiple choice, text, date, etc.) into a spreadsheet automatically. This can be shared amongst your students and staff, or publicly.

Student feedback is particularly important in university. Many still spend time printing thousands of sheets of paper each year only to have to input that data back into a computer! Why not cut out the paper middle-man and use an Excel Survey?

Top Tip #7 – Following content in SharePoint Online

In a mature SharePoint Online environment there might be thousands of sites, files and other content that may or may not be useful to every student or member of staff. Sometimes you stumble upon a really useful resource either by searching or by accident and now you can keep track of it by following the content in your newsfeed.

Top Tip #6 – Outlook Web App on Mobile Devices

When a school, college or university is using shared devices, such as tablets, it isn't always possible to personally configure the applications for a particular user; this is where the web apps in Office 365 really come into their own. The Outlook Web App on mobile devices is excellent, and will automatically switch format based on the type of device you're using whether it's a mobile phone, tablet or full PC device.

Top Tip #5 – Multiple Calendar Views in OWA

This is one of my favourite tips. In the Outlook Web App you can add multiple calendars to view on one screen. This is extremely useful when it comes to planning tutorials, meetings, and other events as you can overlay many people's calendars to see when the most suitable time would be to arrange something. No more lengthy email threads trying to work out when everyone can make it!

There are even Microsoft partners out there who have developed solutions to automatically fill your calendar with your school timetable so that it's available instantly, wherever you go.

Top Tip #4 – Drag 'n' Drop in SkyDrive Pro

Uploading files to anywhere in the past has always been a bit of a chore. Having to click browse, find your individual file, upload and repeat quickly becomes a nightmare. In the new Office 365 you can simply drag and drop multiple files into a documents library and see them get uploaded automatically – simple!

Top Tip #3 – Lync Online Web Scheduler

If you don't have Outlook client available to you then scheduling a Lync meeting might seem like an impossible task; not so with the Lync Online Web Scheduler. Now it's easy to configure your meeting settings via the browser. With the latest updates to Office 365 you can event schedule a Lync Online meeting straight from the Outlook Web App!

Top Tip #2 – SharePoint Online Social Networking

The humble # symbol probably never thought it would get such exposure before Twitter launched, but now the #hashtag is king, with @mentions and "likes" not far behind. In SharePoint Online you can use these familiar social networking features to share content and conversations with others in your class.

Top Tip #1 – Offline Access

I'd like to think we live in a world where connection to the Internet is practically everywhere, but speak to anyone who has been on a train in the UK recently and they'll tell you that being offline is not unusual! Thankfully, just because you're using services that are in the cloud does not mean that you suffer when you lose your Internet access. With the new Office 365 there is an offline mode for OWA, and of course the old favourite, the Office and SkyDrive Pro clients to keep you going when your connection lets you down.

Top Tip #0 – Supercharged Office 365 Storage

This is my bonus tip! Since putting the original top 10 tips together we've supercharged the storage options in Office 365. Now students and staff get to benefit from 25 GB of free SkyDrive Pro storage, with options to increase that up to 100 GB! Equally, students, staff and alumni also get their inbox quotas doubled from 25 GB to 50 GB, free!

Helpfully, we've also increased the individual file upload limits from 250 MB per file to 2 GB per file, and made it even easier to restore documents. Now it's much easier to store those important multimedia or design technology coursework files online, securely, and accessible from anywhere.

Send us your top tips!

Have you got any tips or tricks that make using Office 365 Education even more awesome? Perhaps your students are making videos like The Offperts? Let us know in the comments.

jamesbmarshallhttp://blogs.msdn.com/jamesbmarshall/ProfileUrlRedirect.ashxThe Start of my Office 365 Education Journeyhttp://blogs.msdn.com/b/ukeducloud/archive/2013/09/10/the-start-of-my-office-365-education-journey.aspx2013-09-10T08:29:18Z2013-09-10T08:29:18Z
Guest post from Gerald Haigh. Gerald writes regularly for the Microsoft Education series of blogs.

One of the first things I did when I decided to learn more about the capabilities of Office 365 Education was to have a meeting with Alex Pearce of BFC Networks.

Alex is always good value – generous with his time and knowledge. He's also the kind of person who doesn't raise his eyebrows and sigh when you ask the question that reveals you haven't understood what he's just told you. Believe me, I need people like that in my life.

Alex took me expertly up the Office 365 Education learning curve, and the first thing he reminded me of is that Office 365 Education comes free of charge to schools.

We all know that, don't we? But it's astonishing how many have apparently missed the good news. At BETT 2013, and at conferences since then, I've heard, first hand, visitor after visitor being surprised to hear that Office 365 Education really is free, gratis and for nowt. Everyone needs to be reminded all the time, or the 'too good to be true' factor kicks in.

That bit over, Alex went on to describe the various components of Office 365 Education – Exchange, Lync, SharePoint, and Office web-apps -- sketching out some scenarios of its day-today use in schools.

There will, in fact, be Office 365 Education scenarios and examples from various sources in these blogs as the school year goes on. For now, allow me to reflect on some of the things I've learned from Alex and friends within Microsoft.

Looking back over my time both working in schools and observing them. I can see no end of 'if only' moments – 'If only we'd had Lync, we'd have been able to do classroom-to-classroom joint projects with our partner schools'. Or, 'If only we'd had SharePoint we could have improved home-school collaboration.'

I have no doubt I'll be writing about projects like that in the coming school year.

Ultimately, though, what I'm hoping for are examples where the combined resources of Office 365 Education have caused school leaders and teachers to tear up the rule book and think in a different way about the organisation of teaching and learning. That's because, like all good software, each of the component parts of Office 365 Education starts by helping you to do familiar tasks, but will then go on, if you're ready to grasp the opportunity, to completely change the way you work. The mission statement for my task, I suggest is, 'From help to transformation.'

I have in mind the kind of thing I found at Barnsley College last year. There, Office 365 Education, with SharePoint and Lync, and other Microsoft technologies form a whole 'eco-system' whereby students can use Windows 8 devices to create their own personalised learning environments – 'learning without barriers', the College calls it.

Of course, not everyone needs or wants to copy what Barnsley College is doing. Everyone, though, can think like them, and go beyond, 'How can technology help us to do what we've always done?' and move on to, 'How can we help students to learn more effectively now that we have this technology in place.'

It seems to me that with a comprehensive and free cloud environment like Office 365 Education, the transformation of learning ceases to be a problem of technology, and becomes a matter of will, imagination and leadership. The technology is ready and waiting.

Feet on the ground

It was at the apogee of this flight of fancy, zooming from 'Help' to 'Transformation', that I decided to call Microsoft Innovative Expert Educator Charlotte Beckhurst of Harstbrook E-ACT Free School in Tottenham. Hartsbrook has all of its IT provided as a Microsoft cloud-based service, and Charlotte uses Office 365 Education with her Year One class.

One of her most intriguing projects puts Microsoft OneNote to work on what is effectively a whole-class, live, interactive 'portfolio' which also provides each child with a personal area. Charlotte describes it, significantly, with the same words -- 'Learning environment' -- that I heard at Barnsley College. It's a term that shows how she, too, is thinking well ahead. At the same time, ever practical, she points out that it's necessary to make haste slowly, taking colleagues along, moving a step at a time. She's certainly walking the talk on that, helping teachers in other schools as well as hers to see how Office 365 Education can help them with their work.

Her 'OneNote' project, for example, is something that any individual teacher can do with their own class, and we shall certainly return to it as a scenario that will set out what's possible.

'That's what people are interested in,' she says. 'Teaching is hard enough, and people want to know how to make it easier.'

Charlotte's right of course. So what we need to do in these blogs, I guess, is focus first on the ways that Office 365 Education can help teachers and school leaders to do their jobs. As we tell those stories, the possibilities for deeper transformation will emerge.

jamesbmarshallhttp://blogs.msdn.com/jamesbmarshall/ProfileUrlRedirect.ashxOffice 365 Education Exchange Online mailbox quotas are doubling to 50GB FREEhttp://blogs.msdn.com/b/ukeducloud/archive/2013/08/30/office-365-education-exchange-online-mailboxes-are-doubling-to-50gb-free.aspx2013-08-30T13:02:51Z2013-08-30T13:02:51Z
It's turning out to be a bumper week for Office 365 Education updates. Earlier this week it was announced that SkyDrive Pro was increasing the default storage quota from 7 GB to 25 GB and starting from now Office 365 Education Exchange Online mailbox quotas are doubling to 50 GB FREE!

When will I see my mailboxes get bigger?

Stephen Brown, a product manager on the Exchange team, made the announcement yesterday on the Office 365 technology blog that the increased quota would be rolling out from yesterday through to November so keep an eye out for the bigger quota over the next few weeks and months. This is a tremendous improvement, and one that I hope will benefit students, teachers, admin folks, and researchers across education.

If you're an IT admin there are some tips to remember to make managing large mailboxes even easier:

Administrators can reduce mailbox quotas – 50GB is the maximum size, but this can reduced if required. To find out how to set Exchange Online mailboxes sizes and limits in the Exchange Online environment, see the Microsoft Support article.

If you're running Outlook 2013 on the desktop you can use the powerful features of ActiveSync to configure Outlook to only synchronise mail from within a period of time, thereby preventing huge OST files:

jamesbmarshallhttp://blogs.msdn.com/jamesbmarshall/ProfileUrlRedirect.ashxSkyDrive Pro storage increases making it even better for storing and sharing class workhttp://blogs.msdn.com/b/ukeducloud/archive/2013/08/28/skydrive-pro-storage-increases-making-it-even-better-for-storing-and-sharing-class-work.aspx2013-08-28T12:56:45Z2013-08-28T12:56:45Z
For me, Office 365 Education just keeps getting better and better. SkyDrive Pro, part of Office 365 Education Plan A21, is cloud storage for education, and is the place where students and teachers can store, sync, and share their files across multiple devices with ease and security. To date SkyDrive Pro has offered institutions 7GB of cloud storage per user but yesterday Mark Kashman and Tejas Mehta, senior product managers in the SharePoint team, announced that the SkyDrive pro storage increases making it even better for storing and sharing class work.

1Plan A2 is free for students, faculty and staff and includes Exchange Online Plan 1, Lync Online Plan 2, SharePoint Online Plan 1 and the Office Web Apps. You can sign up for free online!

Each user now gets 25 GB of SkyDrive Pro storage space

Let's look at the headlines:

Each user now gets 25 GB of SkyDrive Pro storage space (up from 7 GB).

You can now increase users' SkyDrive Pro storage beyond the default 25 GB-up to 50 GB and 100 GB.

With the new Shared with Me view, you can easily find documents others have shared with you.

I think this is a great improvement for schools, colleges and universities who are using Office 365 Education as it means their students and teachers can keep more files in the cloud, accessible from everywhere, and the fact that an administrator can increase that quota up to 100GB for individuals means that even the most demanding users should still have enough storage to keep them happy for a long time.

Don't forget that there are applications for SkyDrive Pro on a variety of platforms including Windows 8 and iOS that make it easier to access your files on the go.

Where can I find out more?

Be sure to check out the post on the Office technology blog to find out more about how you can increase storage beyond the new default 25GB, and how you can easily find documents others have shared with you!

jamesbmarshallhttp://blogs.msdn.com/jamesbmarshall/ProfileUrlRedirect.ashxWindows Azure Active Directory Connector Release Candidate Available Nowhttp://blogs.msdn.com/b/ukeducloud/archive/2013/08/14/windows-azure-active-directory-connector-release-candidate.aspx2013-08-14T08:37:42Z2013-08-14T08:37:42Z
The DirSync team and the FIM Sync team are pleased to announce that we have released the Release Candidate of the Windows Azure Active Directory (AAD) Connector on Connect for pre-release evaluation. This replaces the Office 365 Connector which has earlier been available only through MCS and partner engagements.

This new Connector is based on ECMA2 and is the same we use in recent releases of DirSync. It is intended to be used when DirSync is not a viable option. We still recommend to use DirSync as the primary solution to synchronize AD to AAD and use it whenever possible. For additional details, please read the documentation that comes with the Connector.

Release Candidate Available Now

To be able to get access to the download on Connect, go to http://connect.microsoft.com/directory and join the program "Forefront Identity Manager 2010" – "FIM Synchronization Service Connectors Pre-release". You will be automatically approved....

You can then find the download here: https://connect.microsoft.com/site433/Downloads/DownloadDetails.aspx?DownloadID=50509.
Feedback on the Connector and documentation can be submitted on Connect.

We are also looking for customers who would be interested to use this Connector in a production environment in a TAP program. These customers will be able to get production support on this pre-release version of the Connector. If you have any candidates, please send an email to firstname.lastname@example.com.

On behalf of the DirSync team and the FIM Sync team,

Thanks!

jamesbmarshallhttp://blogs.msdn.com/jamesbmarshall/ProfileUrlRedirect.ashxOffice Mobile available for iPhone and Android Phoneshttp://blogs.msdn.com/b/ukeducloud/archive/2013/07/31/office-mobile-available-for-iphone-and-android-phones.aspx2013-07-31T13:46:10Z2013-07-31T13:46:10Z
Over on the Office blog there have been a couple of announcements. If you've got an Office 365 subscription (A3 or A4, or the Office ProPlus subscription and others) then you can now get Office Mobile for Android Phones and the iPhone!

Office Mobile is the official companion to Microsoft Office. Word, Excel and PowerPoint documents look great on your phone, thanks to support for charts, animations, SmartArt Graphics, and shapes. When you make edits or add comments to a document, the formatting and layout remain intact. When you return to your PC or Mac, your document looks like it should.

jamesbmarshallhttp://blogs.msdn.com/jamesbmarshall/ProfileUrlRedirect.ashxThe Service Upgradehttp://blogs.msdn.com/b/ukeducloud/archive/2013/07/09/the-service-upgrade.aspx2013-07-09T13:27:09Z2013-07-09T13:27:09Z
Over the course of the year until the end of September 2013, we are going to be rolling out the new Office 365 Education service to existing customers who are on the "pre-upgrade Office 365".

The service upgrade for Office 365 will deliver exciting new features, including:

The new Office

If you have purchased a subscription to Office, you will get the clean, new look; expanded support for smartphones and tablets, all delivered with the new, fast, Click-to-run deployment technology.

Exchange Online

Outlook Web App has a new look optimized for easy touch-access on tablets and mobile phones.

Improved anti-malware protection, that can prevent malware from ever reaching inboxes.

SharePoint Online

Better collaboration, making it easier to share documents with external users and manage external sharing.

SkyDrive Pro, a cloud storage option users can keep synchronized with their hard-drive for off-line access.

Lync Online

New Lync Web App which delivers a full Lync Meeting experience with high-definition video and VoIP, all from a browser.

One-click meeting access: whether you're at the office or on the road, you don't need to remember dial-in numbers and passcodes.

The Microsoft Online Portal is the primary means of communication about your service upgrade, but the technical contact listed for your Office 365 tenant will also receive emails notifying you about the service upgrade.
 For more information on the service upgrade and what tasks you should be doing post upgrade, checkout the Service Upgrade Guide.

Kyle Edmund Hayeshttp://blogs.msdn.com/kyle_4000_kyleedmundhayes.me/ProfileUrlRedirect.ashxSkyDrive Pro apps for Windows 8 and iOShttp://blogs.msdn.com/b/ukeducloud/archive/2013/07/01/skydrive-pro-apps-for-windows-8-and-ios.aspx2013-07-01T12:19:58Z2013-07-01T12:19:58Z
Sneaking in at the tail end of last week Senior Product Manager for SharePoint, Mark Kashman (@mkashman) announced over on the Office 365 technology blog that SkyDrive Pro apps are now available for Windows 8 and Apple iOS for SharePoint Online users in Office 365.

Both apps are available in their respective Windows Store and Apple App Stores NOW!

Learn more about SkyDrive Pro app for Windows 8 and SkyDrive Pro app for iOS on Office.com.

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Gayle E. Schinbeckler, 92, of Columbia City, passed away at 10:44 a.m. Tuesday, Dec. 4, 2012, at her home.
Born Nov. 12, 1920, in Hope, Kan., she was the daughter of Gustave H. and Sarah E. (Longbine) Brumbaugh.
At age 14, while in the seventh grade, she and her family moved from Kansas to Whitley County.
She graduated from Columbia City High School with the Class of 1938.
On Dec. 24, 1939, she married Marshall C. Schinbeckler at First Church of God, Columbia City.

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Thread: basket ball guy
October 16th, 2004 #1
basket ball guy
crits very welcome. im looking for help to get better skin tones. also the arm holding the basket ball looks a bit wierd to me, is it too short? or just bad anatomy?
Hide this ad by registering as a memberOctober 16th, 2004 #2
I'm much better at skin tones than I am at anatomy, so I'll stick to that for you at the moment.
What you've got here isn't a bad base colour but it needs to be pinker. The biggest thing you have to remember about skin tones is that skin is not all one colour. Usually the torso is the whitest area, the face is redder and the arms and legs are more tanned.
Here's a 5 minute paintover just to show you what I mean (tell me if you'd like me to take it down). Just warmed up the base colour and then added some variation.
Here it looks like you've just used multiply to paint over a pencil drawing, and that's ok for getting your basic colours down, but there will be very little depth and interest if you just leave it like that. There need to be warm-cool colour shifts to better amplify the space. Like instead of leaving those shadows on the green just the darker green, throw a little dark blue-green on top of the pencil drawing. The cool will push the shadow back even more and make it more interesting to look at. Same thing goes with everywhere else.
Art is long and time is fleeting
October 16th, 2004 #3
thanks tully. ill try and post and updated version tomorrow, using some of your advice. that arm still bugs me
October 17th, 2004 #4
gave it a go
October 17th, 2004 #5
It's the underlying structure of the arm that's off. It is too short and I think it's in the forearm and wrist. Actually, I dont think you gave him a wrist. I'd worry more about the drawing first, then the "coloring" of the character. His feet are a too big, and the floppy qulaity of the shirt doesnt tell us that he has hips and thighs.
Take a look at Kevin Chen's analytical drawings of the figure to help you place the bones and muscles on a solid structure.
Link to Kevin's drawings
I hope I've helped.
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I think the hand goes too far under the ball, im sure there will be some reference pics out there...
apart from that i think the style is pretty cool but the anatomy is off in places and the clothes kinda hide the form, maybe look into some drapery exercises to improve on that
but nice try, keep it up!
October 18th, 2004 #7
thanks for the comments guys. like most people i need to work on anatomy more. oh, yeah, i cant believe i didnt realise the size of his feet before. doh


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Berlusconi says that "the government of the time" felt it was the best thing to do to ally with Germany fearing her strength and the racial laws "were imposed on Italy" as part of the alliance. He knows perfectly well that this is not true because of his age and culture, but says it just to please his voters. The facts: Italy enforced the racial laws in 1938, one year before the beginning of the war, and Italy entered Italy entered the conflict only in June 1940, almost one year after it had started. The truth is that racial laws were totally consistent with the Fascist ideology Mussolini had created and already in the colonies since the beginning of the 1930s Italy was enforcing an apartheid regime. Also, it has to be pointed out that there were some allies of Nazist Germany that never enforced racial laws and Franco's Spain didn't even enter the war. Mussolini wanted to occupy the French colonies in Northern Africa and chose to enter the war in moment when Germany had already occupied most of Western Europe including France and looked likely to win the conflict. At that time the Soviet Union was still bound to Germany by a pact of non-aggression, so the war could not even be presented as "ideological". What a respectable and honest statesman should have said was something in this line: "the racial laws were the worst demonstration of an immoral ideology that was at the basis of the Fascist regime", and not "the worst mistake", or something catapulted from outside onto the Italians. Berlusconi, was was a child at the time, and three years ago declared to be an avid reader of Mussolini's diaries, preferred to eschew historical responsibility and present his forerunner as an enlightened statesman. Of course also the rest of the statement, "... a regime that did otherwise good things" can be analysed under the same lens, but it's less relevant to the present discussion. I am Italian and have no particular political bias.
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I've owned a lot of ropes over the years and this is the worst constructed rope I've ever owned. My friends Petzl rope is doing the same exact thing...
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I'll second this review - the sheath wears out really quickly. Especially compared to my current rope, a Mammut Supersafe 10.2
Can you give some details as to what you were climbing and why it may have fuzzed? All the other reviews seem to say otherwise, that after good use there's no wear. How does the product's lifetime warranty cover this?
Petzl ropes tend to have a sheath that is weaved looser than most ropes. While this results in a rope with superior handling to ropes with a tighter weaved sheath, this also results in the sheath "fuzzing" sooner and the propensity to pick up small rock and dirt particles. Thus if you plan to use this rope when climbing low angle rock, multipitching, apline climbing, or top roping in areas where the rope drags against the rock...Don't, it wont last. Get yourself something with a tighter weaved sheath. But if you plan on climbing high angle, single-pitch routes, these ropes handles beautifully.
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A tall, thick, long-armed prospect that looks the part of an NFL tackle. Has nice pop off the snap, able to get position and leverage. Able to make the seal block on the edge. Is comfortable playing in space and blocking downfield. Able to square up the linebacker, lock on, and drive him downfield on the second level. Has nice, quick feet and plays with decent knee bend at times. Will get extension with his long arms and initiate contact at times, able to redirect rushers off the edge. Does a nice job finishing his blocks and flashes good mean streak from time to time.
Has sloppy footwork and struggles to match up against speed. Has difficulty staying in front of an edge rusher and too easily gives up the corner to allow him to go around him. Has to open his stance and has a tendency to slide his feet. Will set up too wide at times, and give up the easy inside counter. Needs to do a better job keeping his hands high and tight upon his set and doesn't consistently initiate contact. Will get jolted back by the edge rusher because of it. Will duck his head and get overextended as a run blocking, causing him to lose his balance. Can struggle at times to get through the trash and release onto the second level.
Massie was the next big thing at Ole Miss after Michael Oher, and while they are similar prospects, Massie hasn't shown enough to think he has Oher's upside. He's got the physical tools with the size, long arms, and athleticism, but his footwork and technique are too sloppy. And Massie struggles to impact either as a pass protector or run blocker despite his upside. He's a player that probably could have used another year in school to make that next step, but as of now he's a bit too raw despite good upside. Went to Hargrave Military Academy before enrolling at Ole Miss.
(10/1) at Fresno St: 1 key block; 1 pressure; Downfield: 1/1; 1 penalty (false start)
(11/5) at Kentucky: 1 key block; 1 missed block, 2 pressures, 1 sack; Downfield: 2/2
2011: 12 GP/12 GS, right tackle
2010: 12/12, right tackle
2009: 13/5, right tackle
Massie has upside, but I would not expect him to be a major contributor early in his NFL career. While he has the tools to make an effective left tackle, there's going to need to be quite a bit of polish slapped on his game before you can expect him to hold up there. A team might be able to get away with him being an effective stopgap starter there for a couple of games down the road, but any NFL team hoping he can develop as a bookend on that side is setting themselves up for disaster. Instead, he's better off being developed as a right tackle in the hopes that he can learn on the job in a year or two and develop into a more consistent player. But unless he really takes to NFL coaching, I don't see him as a guy that will ever truly be a consistent guy. Especially if a team throws him to the wolves sooner rather than later. If you were to sit him for a year or two, and give him sporadic reps as a starter, then I think that would be the best method of developing him. But he's a player that I think won't really be an effective starter until three to five years down the line. And even then, he'll probably just be closer to an average starter. It would be easy to call him a boom/bust prospect, but I think calling him a potential bust is not quite accurate. Because I think Massie can become a solid starter, but I think the expectations because of his physical upside will be considerable higher than they really should be for a player of his skill. He can become a good complementary starter at the next level that might take some development time. I think the team that drafts him may come away disappointed with his development after four years, and he might go onto be a solid, but unspectacular starting right tackle for his next NFL team who never place such lofty expectations on him.
Massie would not be a great fit in Atlanta because of his limited ability to play left side. He's just not a guy you want to trust to protect your starter's blindside. He could be a nice developmental option as a reserve right tackle, and perhaps even get a look or two inside at guard. But unless the Falcons plan to move Clabo inside in a couple of years, then he is likely a career backup here in Atlanta that might make a capable swing tackle.
Massie has second round upside, but really should go in the third because of his potential length to impact may take the better part of his rookie deal.
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Significance of Brain Lesions in Parkinson Disease Dementia and Lewy Body DementiaJellinger K.A.
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Dementia is increasingly recognized as a common feature in patients with Parkinson disease (PD)and dementia with Lewy bodies (DLB), both sharing many clinical and morphological features andbelieved to form a continuum within the spectrum of Lewy body diseases. Based on a large autopsyseries of parkinsonism (31–37% with dementia) and review of the recent literature, the pathologicalchanges underlying cognitive impairment in PD with dementia (PDD) and DLB are discussed. PDcases with Lewy body stages 3–5, i.e. only mild to moderate cortical -synuclein (Syn) depositions,and no additional pathologies, are rarely associated with cognitive impairment, which is frequentlyseen in PD and DLB cases with considerable cortical and limbic Syn load (increasing Lewy bodydensities) and/or associated widespread Alzheimer-type pathology. Clinicopathological studiesshow a negative relation between cognitive impairment and both cortical Lewy body pathology andAlzheimer type changes, suggesting that these either alone or in combination are major causes ofcognitive dysfunction, while others related them to presynaptic Syn aggregates. The neuropathologyof PDD and DLB is similar, without significant differences between cortical and subcortical Lewybodies and the pattern of synuclein pathology in the brainstem, but there are topographic differencesin nigral lesions, more frequent affection of the hippocampal CA 2/3 subareas and more severediffuse amyloid plaque load in the striatum of DLB. In conclusion, the pathology underlying cognitiveimpairment in PDD and DLB is heterogeneous, but there are some differences in the topographyand severity of lesions between both phenotypes that need further evaluation.
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Asserting that his forthcoming film "Detective Byomkesh Bakshi" is targeted at the youth, critically acclaimed filmmaker Dibakar Banerjee said he wants youngsters to accept the detective as a "big hero".
"It's mainly for the Hindi film audience, for the youth audience...those who watch 'Kai Po Che!'and 'Barfi!'...I want them to take Byomkesh as a big hero," Banerjee told mediapersons here Tuesday.
"It is a Hindi film with a big budget," said Banerjee who earlier made films like "Oye Lucky! Lucky Oye!" and "Shanghai".
To be made under the Yash Raj Films banner, the film is based on one of the 33 crime thrillers penned by famed Bengali writer Sharadindu Bandopadhyay with Byomkesh Bakshi as the protagonist between 1932 and 1970.
Featuring Sushant Singh Rajput">Sushant Singh Rajput of "Kai Po Che!" fame as the popular detective, the movie will be set in war-torn Kolkata (then Calcutta) of 1942. It will follow one of the first cases solved by a twenty-something Byomkesh, fresh out of college, and "an adventurous, young, and thrill-loving youth who wants to be a detective".
However, the director declined to reveal the name of the specific novel on which the film is based upon. But he revealed that the Yash Raj Films had bought the rights of "31 of Byomkesh novels in all languages outside Bangla".
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Looking forward to see Sushant as Detective Byomkesh Bakshi...Im sure he will rockkk.
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looking forward to see sushant as detective byomkesh bakshi and all the best to the entire team
awesome news! so excited for this film... hope . Sushant Singh rajput is gonna rock... praying it will turn into a series of films on BB..n sushant will do them all :)
Sounds interesting.Thank you for the news IF.
All the best Suahant and team of new movie.
Loved Sushant's first look as Bomkeysh Bakshi.Really looking forward to this movie.All the best Sushant :)
I loved bong byomkesh Abeer wanna see sushant .. <3 I really fond of byomkesh series, n that sonar biscuit story wow
Looking forward to this ... hope it turns into a series...just want to see Sushant Singh Rajput on the screen again and again :)
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- Directed By Serge Danot.
- Animated By Jean-Marc Cahier, Claude Levet.
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- Originally Released on December 20, 1970.
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