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Bookings are now open for our Higher Education Briefing day, which this year falls on 10th December in London. Microsoft will be holding our annual Higher Education Briefing on 10 th December 2009 at our London offices in Victoria. The agenda for the
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Situated in the North East of London as well as Dubai, Middlesex University provides outstanding service to its 33,000 students. It recently adopted live@edu to help enhance the student experience as well as contain costs by providing seamless services
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This is a very exciting announcement and one that I’ve certain will be welcome from many in the education sector and also an important step in Microsoft’s Education Product Group strategy as we release the Microsoft Live Services plug-in for Moodle. (see
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Who’d have thought it, not only would I be looking for the Moodle logo for the blog, but other strange things have been happening this week: We’ve released two projects under the open source GPL v2 licence for the first time ever Following on from the
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I’m now going to ignore Ray’s comments on good blogging guide because all this post is intended to do is link directly to the words of the University of Chichester and what they have to say about their experience of live@edu . My colleague, Ben
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I came across this posting the other day and it shows how much storage is currently on offer with Microsoft’s live@edu programme for education. They stopped counting when they got to 155GB. It’s a good concise read: http://liveatedu.spaces.live.com/blog/cns!C76EAE4D4A509FBD!1292.entry?sa=63710130
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Over the last few months, there have been a few occasions where universities have been falsely identified as spammers – either because their mail sending services inadvertently set of spam detectors, or because they were genuinely being used to re-route
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You must have seen them – plaintive, desperate or just plain panic. It hasn’t taken long for the USB memory stick to turn into something that everybody has (and yet, I can still remember that sense of satisfaction when I was given my first freebie memory
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Microsoft’s partner, Oxford Computer Group, is running a seminar in Reading on 4 June, details below: Seminar: Identity and Access for Education, including Live@edu, ILM ‘‘2’’ and IAG Attend this free seminar to learn about Live@edu and
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We’ve got another free event coming up at the end of April – this time it’s about solutions for identity and access management in education, with a smattering of Live@edu thrown in for extra value. It’s with one of our partners, Oxford Computer Group,
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If I were to ask a university “which missing feature in Exchange Outlook Web Access (OWA) would you most like to see” then cross-platform/browser support would almost certainly be at the top of the answer list. Of course, OWA does work on different
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One of my colleagues, Jonny Chambers (pictured), started a new blog recently which takes more of a technical look at Microsoft’s hosted student services live@edu . He’s unashamedly using Microsoft’s live services to do this and there are already some
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Well, it’s getting closer and for anyone not able to get access to Live Mesh yet then this should be good news. My view is that Mesh would be just great for students by providing multi-point/device access to data. Perhaps universities will
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It’s been a pleasure to work with the folk at the University of Northampton over the last year whilst they evaluate, implement, test, pilot and deploy live@edu to their students. So, I’m really pleased to see that this has been a success in the
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In recent times it has been fashionable to talk about “cloud services”, and “Software plus Services”, and to consider how Internet-based services supplement, support or replace more conventional IT services provided on campus. And, lo and behold, the
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