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Articles and helpful information about Live@EDU, the free email and SkyDrive service from Microsoft for educational institutions.
Updated on Feb 17, 11
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"In an Outlook Live organization, users are identified by their Windows Live ID. They use their Windows Live ID to sign in to their mailboxes, and the Windows Live ID is also the user's e-mail address. Occasionally, an administrator needs to rename an existing user's Windows Live ID, for example, when a user's legal name or the organization's naming convention changes."
Microsoft's announcement about Office365 to replace Live@EDU in the near future.
"I'm looking to get a list of all Distribution Lists in Exchange along with their members? Is this possible using any built-in Exchange tools? Powershell? Third party tools?"
PowerShell scripts provided to get the Distribution Group information out of Exchange for reporting or other uses (such as piping to another command).
"You can share your Windows Live calendars with your Windows Live contacts, with people to whom you send a private web address, or with anyone on the Internet. The different sharing levels provide different levels of administration for shared calendars. When you publish a calendar online, anyone connected to the Internet can view your calendar, but they can't make changes to it."
"In an Outlook Live organization, users are identified by their Windows Live ID. They use their Windows Live ID to sign in to their mailboxes, and the Windows Live ID is also the user's e-mail address. There are occasions, however, when an administrator may want to change a user's e-mail address without affecting their Windows Live ID."
"Outlook Live uses an online protection system to combat spam and phishing. When messages are received at the Outlook Live gateway server, they are evaluated and assigned a spam confidence level (SCL) value. The SCL is a rating assigned to a message that indicates, based on the characteristics of a message, such as the content, message header, and so forth, the likelihood that the message is spam. The SCL that is assigned at the Outlook Live gateway server is added to the message metadata as it travels through the Outlook Live infrastructure."
"Although you can delete a user's Outlook Live mailbox, there may be times that you only want to prevent a user from accessing their mailbox. For example, the user may be on a leave of absence or under investigation for disciplinary action."
An overview of different questions and answers (or links to answers) about administrating Live@EDU. Answers about compatible Outlook versions, distribution lists, dynamic distribution lists, address books, advertising, and other details.
"Use customized filters to create dynamic distribution groups when the attributes that you want to use aren't available with precanned filters, or when you want to use wildcard matches. For example, if you create a dynamic distribution group that filters on the Department attribute value "R*" and the Title attribute "Engineer", messages sent to this group are delivered only to user accounts that have those attributes."
''The question often comes up around what needs to be done to prevent a student from modifying their Account settings, yet still allowing an Alumni to modify theirs. Since moving to the current release in the Outlook.com datacenter, new PowerShell cmdlets have become available that facilitate the creation of security groups, with which a Tenant administrator can put together a new RBAC role, customize the cmdlets available to the role, and then create a new Role assignment that uses the security group to specify which users are able to perform certain tasks."
"The Standard Distribution Group properties interface, and... how these settings [can] be set through PowerShell instead."
"When you create dynamic distribution group, you may want to use some of these parameters. They're unrelated to the query filters, but you can use them with the Set-DynamicDistributionGroup cmdlet."
After you enroll your organization in Outlook Live, users may have the following questions that directly affect their e-mail experience:
Are any sending size limits applied to e-mail messages?
What recipient limits are applied to e-mail messages?
Does my Outlook Live organization have a mailbox quota?
"You use mailbox plans to provision accounts for a particular user population with a common default configuration. For example, you can assign a mailbox plan to student users that hides their contact information from the shared address book." By default, the GalDisabledMailboxPlan does NOT allow Outlook to connect to an account, where the DefaultMailboxPlan does!
Before you create new user accounts in Outlook Live, you'll want to make sure that the default mailbox plan is set to the one that will be assigned to most users. You can use Windows PowerShell to set the mailbox plan that is used by default for user account creation.
How to set Live@EDU timezone and language for all accounts by PowerShell script. The post by Tom2112 provides a script that outputs status while the command is running.
17 items | 5 visits
Articles and helpful information about Live@EDU, the free email and SkyDrive service from Microsoft for educational institutions.
Updated on Feb 17, 11
Created on Sep 17, 10
Category: Computers & Internet
URL: