Office 365 Education Blog
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Microsoft 365 Education
We are excited to introduce Microsoft 365 for Education - a new licensing model to help our...
Date: 10/20/2017
Exchange Online Mail Protection Power BI Report
Using advanced reporting tools can give you an added edge over attackers and help you develop a...
Date: 06/15/2017
How to kill an active user session in Office 365
In situations involving compromised user accounts simply disabling an account is often not...
Date: 06/14/2017
Increase OneDrive for Business Storage to 5TB
1TB is the default tenant-wide setting for a user’s OneDrive for Business storage quota. If you have...
Date: 05/22/2017
How do I hide the Azure AD management blade from non-admin users?
The Azure AD Management Preview Blade in the Azure Portal is the gateway to some of the most...
Date: 04/26/2017
Office 365 eDiscovery between two or more users
If you are an Office 365 Administrator and haven’t yet taken a look at the new Office 365 Security...
Date: 10/24/2016
Azure AD B2B Walkthrough
Last year we announced the availability of the public preview for Azure AD B2B and B2C. The need for...
Date: 08/16/2016
How do I start a trial of Exchange Online Advanced Threat Protection?
Exchange Online Advanced Threat Protection (ATP) is now available for Education customers. ATP...
Date: 04/06/2016
How do I configure Office 365 ProPlus for download of Office 2016 or Office 2013?
Since February 23rd 2016, most Office 365 users download Office 2016 as the default version from...
Date: 03/01/2016
Office 365 Groups in Education
Office 365 Groups are a powerful new tool to enable contextual collaboration across Office 365...
Date: 02/16/2016
How can I get the new 2016 version of Office 365 ProPlus today?
There is quite a bit of confusion floating around about how to get this today. The good news is you...
Date: 09/24/2015
How can you whitelist messages from Clutter?
A customer at a university wanted to ensure important system messages were not put into the clutter...
Date: 09/17/2015
Ability to add custom tiles/sites to the Office 365 App launcher
I found out about a neat feature for adding in custom tiles to the app launcher. Here are the...
Date: 07/31/2015
Office 365 Education summer feature summary
I took a vacation and have been away for a bit and a lot things have occurred in Office 365. Let me...
Date: 07/30/2015
How can I query multiple user’s OneDrive for Business data?
This is a very common question I get from customers and also they want to know how they can globally...
Date: 05/29/2015
Sway integration with Office 365
Great news today – the Sway team provided Office 365 integration starting in First Release...
Date: 05/21/2015
Where can I find new Office 365 training?
I get asked this quite often from my customers and we have a plethora of Office 365 content but in...
Date: 05/12/2015
New OneDrive for Business roadmap
Some great announcements from the Ignite conference last week coming to OneDrive for Business. The...
Date: 05/11/2015
How can I bump my Exchange Online send/receive quota beyond 25MB with the new 150MB send/receive limits?
I have had several customers wanting to send more than 25MB attachments in Exchange Online for some...
Date: 04/24/2015
Where can I watch some quick demos explaining some key Office 365 Education features?
This is was question I received from a CIO for a massive west coast school district. I found some...
Date: 04/21/2015
How to setup Shared Computer Activation step by step for your education environment
This is a great feature for using Office 365 ProPlus on multiuser/share machine scenarios such as...
Date: 03/20/2015
OneNote Class Notebook and OneNote Staff Notebook
The OneNote team just added an awesome addition to the OneNote shared Notebook strategy called...
Date: 02/24/2015
Branded login page, self service password reset, and updated Outlook for iOS and Android
Some great new items launched today for Office 365 customers. Brand your Azure...
Date: 02/17/2015
How to install AAD Sync on a full SQL Server
This was a question from large customer in the southwest who has over 250,000 users to sync to...
Date: 02/10/2015
Office for Android tablet, OneDrive for Mac sync preview, Outlook for iOS and Android now available
Three big announcements today: Office for Android tablet This is a great addition to the Office 365...
Date: 01/29/2015
Migrate up to 150MB attachments to Exchange Online
Great news effective now we announced that we have upped the attachment migration limit size to...
Date: 01/14/2015
SAML 2.0 and Shibb support for Office 365 ProPlus and Office 2013 standalone - available in tech preview
This is a common ask in education: When will OneDrive for Business folder sync client, Office 365...
Date: 11/12/2014
Office 365 ProPlus for Faculty and Staff benefit launched today
Great news! We launched the new benefit for faculty, staff and teachers. If your education...
Date: 11/11/2014
New Outlook for Mac version available from Office 365 portal
Where do I grab the new Outlook for Mac? From your Mac, grab the new Outlook for Mac bits here....
Date: 11/04/2014
Shared Computer Activation with Office 365 ProPlus benefit for students/faculty/staff
This is a popular topic I get with education customers. I put together a quick scenario guideline...
Date: 11/04/2014
Changing Your Password with Office 365 FAQ
I get asked by a lot of customers around what I can do with changing the password in the cloud via...
Date: 10/22/2014
Academic SKU changes from A to E change in name only
There is a name change currently being rolled out to all Academic tenants where we are changing the...
Date: 09/30/2014
New Office 365 ProPlus benefits for students and faculty/staff
More great news for students and faculty staff. Launching today we have the Office 365...
Date: 09/22/2014
New Office 365 directory synchronization tool shipped called Azure Active Directory Synchronization Services
Good news is this long awaited tool has finally shipped and it looks like this is the one tool to...
Date: 09/18/2014
Delve, Branded Office 365 Navigation bar and Shared Computer Activation launched
Delve Delve just launched today and will be rolling out to all Office 365 Education tenants...
Date: 09/08/2014
Top 5 tips for a successful back to school on a budget
It's school time again! A time of mixed emotion – exciting to be back in the thick of things but...
Date: 08/18/2014
Yammer available with academic plans beginning today!
Great news, beginning today Yammer Enterprise will ship with all Office 365 A plans at no additional...
Date: 07/08/2014
Yammer Enterprise for Office 365 Education now available!
Great news today we announced the availability of Yammer Enterprise in your Office 365 Education...
Date: 07/07/2014
Office 365 Roadmap site now available
This is great new site we just launched showing all the new features and upcoming features of Office...
Date: 06/19/2014
Is there an Office 365 End User Adoption Kit?
I have many education customers deploying Office 365 this summer while school is out. I was asked...
Date: 06/06/2014
OneDrive for Business FAQ
Update 5-11-15: Great new roadmap information. Please see the OneDrive for Business roadmap post...
Date: 06/04/2014
Customizable launch materials to announce Student Advantage at your school
Are you getting ready to make the Student Advantage benefit available to your school or university?...
Date: 05/31/2014
Synchronize passwords for federated users to reduce downtime in case of an emergency
Office 365 now supports Password Synchronization as a temporary backup for Single Sign-On...
Date: 05/30/2014
Can I toggle on and off Sites, Newsfeed, OneDrive inside of SharePoint Online?
This is a very popular request in education where you may want to hide a subset of SharePoint Online...
Date: 05/20/2014
Mobile Entrée 365 for SharePoint released!!
The Office 365 Education team is very excited that H3 Solutions Mobile Entrée 365 is now...
Date: 05/14/2014
Can I create a single PowerShell session for Lync Online, SharePoint Online, Azure AD, and Exchange Online?
The answer is yes you can however I couldn’t find this documented so I decided to write a post...
Date: 05/08/2014
Can I split OneDrive for Business in the cloud and SharePoint 2013 server sites on prem?
I had a public school in Denver ask me this question since they had a rich student portal on prem...
Date: 05/06/2014
Exploring the Transition from Google Apps with Office 365 Education- May 15th 2014 12:30 PST
Seminar: Exploring the Transition from Google Apps with Office 365 EducationDate & Time: May...
Date: 04/30/2014