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bigjb

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Anyone got any timescales when existing Office 365 for education customers will be upgraded from Sharepoint 2010 to 2013? I went down to Bett on Saturday and was impressed on the Microsoft stand with the functionality of 2013.
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No idea.

 

I sat in on an MS training session "Administering Office 365 for Small Businesses Jump Start" back in November. They didn't even seem to know that you could edit PDF documents from Word 2013, and couldn't answer if/when that would be available in O365.

MYK-IT

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I'm attending an Office 365/Cloud in Education Seminar on Friday with Sean O’Shea (and others) from Microsoft. I will ask your question there for you if you like?

 

We are still on Live@Edu awaiting upgrade to Office 365 for both of our sub/domains.

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Neil-Millgate

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Coincidentally, the man from Microsoft is in today doing some training on 365. He seemed to think it was available now. Will double check with him when he has finisshed his current session and let you know.
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EduTech

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All Current Live @ Edu customers awaiting the upgrade to Office 365, I am to believe this will be done (as in everyone will be moved) by around Aug/Sep 2013.

 

The Office 365 Preview which provides you with Lync 2013, SharePoint 2013 & Exchange 2013 goes live some time in Q1 of this year but no exact date as of yet. ;) Once it is GA then you will be emailed as soon as you can upgrade your tenancy.

 

James.

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jamesbmarshall

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There are two streams of work here:

 

1. The upgrade of customers currently on Live@edu to the current version of Office 365 for education. This is happening right now, and most customers can now upgrade at their own pace, or wait until their scheduled date.

 

2. The upgrade of the current version of Office 365 for education to the new Office 365 for education (aligned with the 2013 applications and servers for on-premises). This is a separate process from the Live@edu upgrade. There are no timescales to share at this time with respect to when existing customers will be upgraded as the new version is not yet available.

 

Once the new version is available we'll start communicating with customers about what that upgrade is going to look like, when it will happen, and how customers can prepare.

 

If you want to know more about the whole program please keep an eye on the official channels, or speak to your Microsoft account rep. :)

 

The new version of Office 365 for education enhances the functionality available today, and will be available soon.

 

MS Office 365 release date for business enhancements set for 27 February | Cloud Pro

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MYK-IT

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Just been informed that newer version of Office 365 will be released within the next 2-3 months.

 

7GB SkyDrive Pro for every user, fully managed by admins.

 

500mb SharePoint space per user, with an additional 500mb per user added towards a SharePoint pool of storage to be used as required.

 

I'll try and update more later....

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funkyfin2000

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Is anyone clear as to whether SkyDrive Pro will be part of the free Office 365 Education offerings? I can't seem to find any clarification on this.

 

Id like to know this too! If you find out do update the thread!

 

Taa

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Is anyone clear as to whether SkyDrive Pro will be part of the free Office 365 Education offerings? I can't seem to find any clarification on this.

@jamesbmarshall would probably be the one to ask but it seems MS is quite tight lipped now about all of their stuff which is unfortunate as they used to be good at informing people so you could actually plan for stuff.

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Is anyone clear as to whether SkyDrive Pro will be part of the free Office 365 Education offerings? I can't seem to find any clarification on this.

 

Hi,

 

Yes, SkyDrive Pro will be available for all tenancies in the new Office 365 offerings.

 

James.

 

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Is anyone clear as to whether SkyDrive Pro will be part of the free Office 365 Education offerings? I can't seem to find any clarification on this.

 

Hi,

 

Yes, SkyDrive Pro will be available for all tenancies in the new Office 365 offerings.

 

James.

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jamesbmarshall

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Is anyone clear as to whether SkyDrive Pro will be part of the free Office 365 Education offerings? I can't seem to find any clarification on this.

 

Yes, SkyDrive Pro is part of the education offering - each user gets 7GB of storage.

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pritchardavid

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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?
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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

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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

brainchylde

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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

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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.

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