Microsoft Higher Education Tech NE : Edu Applications

OCS for Blackboard Learning Platform

Matthic — Mon, 12 Oct 2009 20:43:00 GMT

Enabling Technologies wrote a really cool app that lights up Office Communication Server Instant Messaging and Presence within Blackboard. See the attached datasheet. For more information contact: info@enablingtechcorp.com www.enablingtechcorp.com...(read more)

New Live@Edu Resource For Customers - Custom Landing Page Kit

Matthic — Wed, 16 Sep 2009 17:35:00 GMT

As a follow-up to the “Students. Yes!” Live@Edu campaign, we’ve added a great new resource to build awareness among students of the many great benefits of Live@Edu. Available today is a “microsite” html template kit with images and html files to easily...(read more)

Microsoft Surface Listserv for Higher Ed

Matthic — Tue, 14 Jul 2009 19:52:00 GMT

The Ohio State University is hosting a Surface ListServe for higher education. To be added, please send a blank message to HigherEdSurface-subscribe@lists.studentaffairs.ohio-state.edu from the email address you’d like to have added. You’ll receive an...(read more)

OLW - Help your study group make the grade (or any group project)

Matthic — Fri, 08 May 2009 22:01:00 GMT

There are many ways Microsoft Office Live Workspace beta can make your life easier. Today, we’ll show you how to use a workspace for your next group project. A workspace gives you a single online place where your group can store notes and schedules, and...(read more)

MOSS as a LMS?

Matthic — Mon, 30 Mar 2009 17:23:00 GMT

One of our partners - AppointLink did a nice job customizing SharePoint at Yale Law School. Essentially they were able to replace Backboard LMS with SharePoint functionality. This may not supplant all of your LMS needs but in many cases its good enough...(read more)

New Case study - Leveraging IAG and AppV for distance learning

Matthic — Wed, 25 Mar 2009 22:20:00 GMT

We published a new case study recently. It highlights how IAG and App-V can be combined to build a distance-learning or remote access solution in the Education sector. http://www.microsoft.com/casestudies/casestudy.aspx?casestudyid=4000003808...(read more)

Live Search Credits program for Edu

Matthic — Mon, 16 Mar 2009 22:15:00 GMT

This program is called Search@Work and the basic idea behind it is in return for using Microsoft’s Search Engine www.live.com you will receive service credits that you are able use towards support training and more. Below is additional information on...(read more)

IT Academy LiveMeetings part 2

Matthic — Wed, 28 Jan 2009 19:05:00 GMT

IT Academy offers Over 300 courses and $80,000 of Value to Education for $1,750 2 Live Meeting Events available to choose from: January 28 th 2009 - 11:00 AM EST – https://www.livemeeting.com/lrs/microsoft1/Registration.aspx?pageName=0zc4cdlj3nxqsq25...(read more)

TechEd Edu discount and other conferences

Matthic — Tue, 27 Jan 2009 00:40:00 GMT

1. Tech Ed happens once a year in June and covers all of our major products plus dev. For the first time in recent memory - there's a EDU discount (see below). 2. MMS (Microsoft Management Summit) happens in April/May (in Las Vegas this year) and focuses...(read more)

New Docy - Exchange Labs / Exchange on-prem split SMTP namespace

Matthic — Fri, 23 Jan 2009 23:13:00 GMT

This is very cool. Official documentation which helps Universities that use Exchange Labs (Outlook Live) and Exchange on- premises share SMTP namespace. E.g. If you want students on Outlook Live and fac/staff on Exchange on-prem and want to share SMTP...(read more)

Waltham MTC - Implementing Campus Communications with Business Continuity 11/13

Matthic — Fri, 31 Oct 2008 19:41:00 GMT

You're invited to see this technology in a live interactive presentation. Learn more about the benefits from Microsoft OCS, Exchange 07, and PAETEC Disaster Recovery/Business Continuity Solutions. Registration is complimentary, simply use the registration...(read more)

Good Exchange Labs FAQ/Blog

Matthic — Tue, 26 Aug 2008 02:14:00 GMT

Good resource for technical questions about Exchange Labs…the kinds of questions asked all of the time by Systems Engineers/technical CIOS: http://liveatedu.spaces.live.com Also, and of course http://technet.microsoft.com/exchangelabshelp ....(read more)

SharePoint Learning Kit Add-on Pack is out

Matthic — Thu, 31 Jul 2008 21:42:00 GMT

SharePoint Learning Kit Add-On Pack is now available! The Add-On Pack is the first instance of SLK to have been tested by the product group, and also have a partner-based support mechanism. www.microsoft.com/education/slk.mspx ....(read more)

New BLOG - OneNote and Education

Matthic — Tue, 27 May 2008 18:21:00 GMT

http://blogs.msdn.com/onenote_and_education/rss.xml...(read more)

Cool video - Higher Education landscape BI/Analytics

Matthic — Mon, 12 May 2008 20:11:00 GMT

Dan Venedem, VP of Sales, iStrategy Solutions sat down with Rob Curtin, Industry Solutions Specialist, and Cameron|e to talk about the Higher Education landscape. The focus of this conversation is how BI and Analytics help universities and colleges build...(read more)