Live@edu Outlook

[sadams1980]

Hello all,

I am interested in my school going on to Microsoft's free email service. We are a RM CC3 school and we use RM Easymail.

I contacted RM to find out if the school owns the email address. This is what I sent -

"Hello,
We use RM Easymail and I was wondering if you could tell me whether the domain @mail.heywood.gloucs.sch.uk was brought and is now owned by Heywood Community School or if this is still owned by RM/SWGFL?"

This was RM's reply -

"Hi Sean,
I can confirm that RM own the DNS and Heywood own the domain.
Regards"

I am a bit confused about this does this mean I can use live@edu or not. Are there any other schools who have gone from easymail to Microsoft and what did you have to do to do this?

Thanks

[zag]

Yes you can use Live@edu, just ask RM to make the dns change to your MX record.

A DNS change only takes 20mins these days once they actually action it.

We just registered a new domain ourselves as I wanted to run the new system in parallel for a bit. It also means we have a nice short email address now.

[plexer]

RM are providing the dns services for your domain.

In order to use live@edu you need them to change the mx record for your domain to point to the live@edu service.

The web hosting i.e your website can stay where it is.

Ben

[sadams1980]

Thanks for the reply's. If i start the ball rolling and enrol with live@edu I will still be able to use RM Easymail won't I? I want to be able to migrate a couple of staff and some students to see how it goes before I do a mass migration. I still want the rest of the staff to use Easymail until I am ready.

Thanks again
Sean

[zag]

If you keep the same domain name then you need to do it all in one go.

As I said earlier we registered a new domain for 20 quid and moved all email users onto that.

[plexer]

how about a subdomain bob@staff.schoolname.sch.uk ???

Ben

[sadams1980]

We do want to keep the same email address? If at all possible.

[plexer]

Sorry can't be done without switching from one system to the other now if easymail was an exchange based system then it would have been possible to switch to live@edu then migrate the data using their tools but it's not.

Ben

[sadams1980]

Oh right. Ah well if we decide to go with it, it will have to be done over a holiday or weekend or something. Im trying to do as much research as possible then I will put this forward to SLT. But as its a free service compared to paying for RM Easymail plus loads of other benefits. A no brainer really!! Thanks for all your help, much appreciated.

Sean