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9 days ago
I first worked with the Oxford Computer Group back when I was a Technical Specialist in Microsoft Ireland a few years back… they have operations in North America, the UK, Belgium, Denmark, Holland, and Germany. This Gold Certified Microsoft Partner has built a business out of Identity Management, and since Live@edu first launched and we offered Identity Lifecycle Manager as a platform through which on-premises user directories could be synchronized with the Live@edu service, Oxford has been there to offer our customers with their deployments. Oxford wrote the original Passport Management Agent for MIIS/ILM which evolved to be the Hotmail MA for Live@edu. They also wrote the original version of the Exchange Labs MA and have now installed it and GALSync 2010 (now renamed as Outlook Live Sync (OLSync) at more than 60 schools in North America and the European Union. Readers should check out what they have to offer here: http://www.oxfordcomputergroup.com/OutlookLive. ...
17 days ago
LiveID Accrual What….? LiveID Accrual is the process that your Outlook Live R3 users have to go through the first time they login with the LiveID username and password you assign to them… re-enter password, secret question/answer, alternate email address…etc. Essentially it is there so that users can easily do a self-service password reset if they have forgotten their password. Some customers would rather not have to put their users through this process… and this was for a number of reasons: Customers wanted a better initial experience for their users… the Accrual Process confused some younger users Customers that had SSO deployed did not want to have their users log into their LiveID and run through the Accrual Process prior to being able to use SSO Some customers already have a self-service password reset service in place that sync’d an on-prem password with the LiveID service… a separate password reset service was confusing. etc …and so now, I can announce, that ...
17 days ago
Anyone that enrolls a new Outlook Live domain today with Live@edu will go straight onto our shiny new R4 service… more on the new functionality on that in coming weeks… We have some great new admin tools, premium OWA experience in the latest Firefox, Safari, and Chrome browsers, the reading pane can now be turned on and off (how often did that one come up in Outlook Live Answers?), and a new PowerShell commands that the Exchange team put in there to give me something to blog about :) Existing customer domains will start to get upgraded VERY soon now… so if you are an admin of an R3 domain, you should refer to Joey’s extensive blog post: Heads-Up- Managing Your Domain During the R3 to R4 Upgrade. For those admins that are using CSV Parser to manage accounts, you should know that there is an updated script available now on http://connect.microsoft.com/ So… nothing stands still…! Jonny
21 days ago
I had previously posted on how we are helping customers conform with Section 508… well, we have just released the Exchange 2010 VPAT on our Section 508 page. Exchange 2010 is what Outlook Live is built on… in case you did not know that :) Thanks for reading! Jonny
22 days ago
One of the great things about choosing Microsoft as a platform provider is the strength and depth of our partner ecosystem; a great example is SADA Systems, a Microsoft Gold Certified Partner that has just launched a range of services for Live@edu customers. I had blogged a while ago on what we thought some of the services opportunities for partners were… and I am delighted to now see what SADA offers. These guys have really gone to town… they have launched services lines covering things like: Basic Live@edu service provisioning. ILM/GalSync deployment for AD… and… non-AD environments. An in-house provisioning/sync solution that can run in a customer’s infrastructure, or in SADA’s cloud. SSO services deployed on-prem and in SADA’s cloud. migration services. Helpdesk services. Service management. Training… What a list! I am especially excited at the support for ILM in non-AD environments… there is a lot of OpenLDAP out there in “Edu-land”, ...
