Office 365 Upgrade to Sharepoint 2013

[brainchylde]

This is fantastic news. I have many thousands of accounts ready to provision! I hope we don't have to wait too long for our existing deployment to be upgraded.

[pritchardavid]

Technically do you think the Skydrive Pro could replace the students home drives, if we found the correct path name of each students Skydrive, hopefully in bulk of course. Or us it better to continue using a file server instead?

[SYNACK]

Technically do you think the Skydrive Pro could replace the students home drives, if we found the correct path name of each students Skydrive, hopefully in bulk of course. Or us it better to continue using a file server instead?

You can map sharepoint libraries - basiclly skydrive pro - to drives in windows so it cn probably be done, I feel for your net connection though.

[mattysmith80]

Technically do you think the Skydrive Pro could replace the students home drives, if we found the correct path name of each students Skydrive, hopefully in bulk of course. Or us it better to continue using a file server instead?

An interesting one on this.... I was showing sky drive to the ict teachers and the first question they asked was can we still access each students my work.... Errr good point

[jamesbmarshall]

I was showing sky drive to the ict teachers and the first question they asked was can we still access each students my work....

Yes. It's all about permissions.

[brainchylde]

An interesting one on this.... I was showing sky drive to the ict teachers and the first question they asked was can we still access each students my work.... Errr good point

We explicitly do not allow this without the students permission or SMT override.

[jamesbmarshall]

It's coming on the 27th.

It's here!

Web Services For Schools | Office 365 Academic - Office.com

[brainchylde]

It's here!

Web Services For Schools | Office 365 Academic - Office.com

YAY. I wish there was something I could do to push the upgrade forward. Just have to wait for the e-mail now.

[drewp]

It's here!

Web Services For Schools | Office 365 Academic - Office.com

If we have no user data in our existing tenancy, would it be best to sign up for the new next gen office 365 and start over again?

I already have staff and student licences allocated to our existing tenancy, and our vanity domain is also linked to it - would that cause problems, or is it best to wait for the upgrade to come through?

[jamesbmarshall]

If we have no user data in our existing tenancy, would it be best to sign up for the new next gen office 365 and start over again?

I already have staff and student licences allocated to our existing tenancy, and our vanity domain is also linked to it - would that cause problems, or is it best to wait for the upgrade to come through?

If you've got no users live then you could, if you wanted to, sign up on the new Office 365.

As for the licensing - it depends on how you've got them allocated. If you have your licences attached to your VL (i.e. you'd have to be an EES customer, not OVS-ES) then it's more complicated. If you just signed up via the website and manage your licences that way then it's just a case of literally starting again from scratch. You'll need to remove your existing domain from the existing tenant in order to be able to add it in to the new one.

OR... you could just wait, but at the moment we are not talking about the service upgrade. Details will come soon.

[Edu-IT]

So what exactly is in the 'new' version which isn't in the current version? I'm a little confused! Is it just the 2013 versions of things, and SkyDrive?

[jamesbmarshall]

Office 365 Service Upgrade Center for Enterprise - Upgrade to Office 365 - Office 365 - Microsoft Office 365 Community

There's a good starting point.