Education

Microsoft Research Asia - 10th Anniversary Innovation Forum

UK Academic Team Blog — Fri, 15 Aug 2008 08:29:56 GMT

On August 12, Bill Gates, Chairman of Microsoft ® , joined visionary technologists from Microsoft Research (MSR) Asia, the Chinese University of Hong Kong, the Hong Kong University of Science & Technology, and the University of Hong Kong, to...(read more)

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Live@Edu Blog — Mon, 11 Aug 2008 03:05:31 GMT

Most Popular ILM and Exchange Labs Managing Exchange Labs Distribution Groups using PowerShell Exchange Labs QuickStart Pilot Introduction to Exchange Labs...(read more)

Introduction to Exchange Labs

Live@Edu Blog — Mon, 11 Aug 2008 02:58:50 GMT

I am often asked to give an end-to-end presentation on what Exchange Labs is, so I thought I would record what I typically say to customers. Here it is for your viewing and listening pleasure. Double click to view in full screen Download Enjoy! Jonny...(read more)

Modifying Exchange Labs Custom Attributes using PowerShell

Live@Edu Blog — Fri, 08 Aug 2008 19:51:01 GMT

Since I first posted on the potential for using Exchange Custom attributes for things like supporting the creation of Distribution Groups, profiling of your user population and so on, I have had queries from customers about how these attributes can be...(read more)

News from the Faculty Summit

UK Academic Team Blog — Wed, 06 Aug 2008 08:03:08 GMT

Lee Dirks, the Director for Education and Scholarly Research , announced five new ‘lifecycle’ tools for academics and researchers. The tools are as follows: Research Information Centre Creative Commons (an add-in to Microsoft Office) Article Authoring...(read more)

So what about the other Live@Edu services?

Live@Edu Blog — Tue, 05 Aug 2008 19:32:08 GMT

In this journey towards a software + services world in education, email is often seen as one of the primary services that institutions will move offsite; and of course this demand has been reflected in this blog where it is quite apparent that this is...(read more)

Silverlight – Dive Deep

UK Academic Team Blog — Tue, 05 Aug 2008 07:51:19 GMT

From now on, Senior Program Manager, Jesse Liberty, will be concentrating his efforts on more advanced technical questions in his Silverlight tutorials and is asking for your help. So if there is a topic you would like Jesse to focus on, or indeed something...(read more)

Microsoft Tech-Ed 2007 Conference DVD sets to give away

UK Academic Team Blog — Mon, 04 Aug 2008 07:29:00 GMT

Good morning, I thought I’d start the week with a give-away of the ten Tech-Ed Conference DVD sets sitting on my desk. So, if you live in the UK and would like me to pop one in the post to you, email me your address details and the first ten to reply...(read more)

Software Entrepreneurship Faculty Workshop

UK Academic Team Blog — Thu, 31 Jul 2008 13:45:51 GMT

Hi All, In June, Bournemouth University played host to Lars Lindstedt who delivered a two day Software Entrepreneurship Faculty Workshop . The training materials for that event are now available to view on the National Council for Graduate Entrepreneurship...(read more)

Populating your Profanity or Bad Word Filter with PowerShell on Exchange Labs

Live@Edu Blog — Wed, 30 Jul 2008 23:37:04 GMT

$&#@! My colleague, and fellow PowerShell fan, Richard Wakeman has just spent some time developing a script that administrators can use in conjunction with bad word list files to install them into an Exchange Labs domain. I am delighted to be able...(read more)

Pixel Poetry

UK Academic Team Blog — Wed, 30 Jul 2008 09:14:17 GMT

Hi, It was our very great pleasure to sponsor and support the Microsoft Photography Competition at the Department of Engineering 2008 , at the University of Cambridge. Blue Spikes, by Sonja Findeisen-Tandel If proof were needed, these photographs exemplify...(read more)

ILM and Exchange Labs

Live@Edu Blog — Tue, 29 Jul 2008 00:13:02 GMT

Customers ask me about this all of the time, so I wanted to share here what I have been telling them. There is often confusion over what it can and cannot do, what the alternatives are. Thanks to Richard Wakeman from our MS Services group and Erik DesBois...(read more)

Managing Distribution Groups in Exchange Labs with PowerShell

Live@Edu Blog — Mon, 28 Jul 2008 23:51:29 GMT

Dynamic Distribution Groups serve a purpose, but they are not for everyone. They tend to be used more for communicating with bigger groups of people in an organization or sometimes when you do not want people to be able to browse group membership...because...(read more)

Presentations from the Live@Edu World Event

Live@Edu Blog — Fri, 25 Jul 2008 22:50:53 GMT

This was an event that we ran for customers that were prepared to make the trip to Redmond, WA a few weeks back. It was good to be able to meet some of you there. I have just uploaded the presentations from the event to my SkyDrive...you can download...(read more)

Don't test delete/recreate with your Production Account info in your Exchange Labs domain!

Live@Edu Blog — Fri, 25 Jul 2008 21:37:56 GMT

Hi folks, For those of you that are in the test phase right now in Exchange Labs, one word of caution. Do not use your real user data in testing. There is a restriction in the Live service that controls the number of times an account can be created, deleted,...(read more)