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Only in the case of Exchange Online Plan 1 in Office 365 for education. If you need longer than 30 days for single item recovery there is always Exchange Online Plan 2.

The Exchange Online service description is where you can find out all the info you need! Download: Office 365 for Enterprise Service Descriptions - Microsoft Download Center - Download Details

Upgrade from Live@edu to Office 365 for education - UK Live@edu Blog - Site Home - MSDN Blogs - Yes.

Yes it is! If you need to do something today - as in literally right now - then go for Live@edu; otherwise wait a short while and you'll be able to go straight onto Office 365 for education directly. There's lots of planning you can do as well as any infrastructure prep in order to be ready.

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Hashtags are just a way to track content on a topic across a range people. Take the The Only Way Is Essex, for example. You might follow and be followed by a great group of people, but if you wanted to find out what other people (i.e. everyone else on Twitter) were saying about the show you could search for tweets tagged #towie, and likewise take part in that conversation by tagging your tweets #towie, too. #ukedchat is another, perhaps more relevant, example. That way you don't have to follow every single person who tweets about that topic, but you could set up a search column in your favourite Twitter software to show tweets that have that tag in them. Tagging all of your own tweets with #gattsramblings isn't going to really benefit you because people who want to see what you're saying as an individual would just follow you or list you anyway.

Looks like those 10 accounts have already associated their email address with a Windows Live ID using EASI ID (not unusual, you can associate any email address with a WLID). You'll need to import them. Import or Evict Existing Windows Live IDs in Live@edu

You don't download it; it's hosted! Microsoft Forefront Online Protection for Exchange I would speak to your licensing reseller, as I only know about how to get it via Live@edu and Office 365 for education.

You could use Forefront Online Protection for Exchange? It's free for education. (It's also part of Live@edu and Office 365 for education) Microsoft Forefront Online Protection for Exchange 01-2012 : New offerings for Lync Online Plan 1, Forefront Online Protection for Exchange, Product Changes & Miscellaneous

You're probably going to get a variety of different opinions here, so I will add mine to the mix. I left school at 18 with two A-Levels and went straight into work as an IT technician at a local school - I'd got my place at Uni reserved and deferred for a year and I genuinely planned to go. The problem is that money is an incredible incentive to buy things, and I bought a car on finance and as the months progressed I was so artificially happy with my new-found employment, money and car that I began believing that Uni wasn't quite so necessary after all. After a year at my first job I moved to a different school in the same authority where after a period I became Network Manager; who needs a degree, right? I didn't earn very much though, and certainly couldn't afford the things that I really wanted (like my own place, or a nice holiday) - I was young, inexperienced, unqualified and above all: cheap. It was only thanks to my girlfriend at the time that I made a complete career change decision and dropped it all to go to Uni. Even though it is expensive, and even though you might not think it is worth it, getting a degree is important if you want to have a career working for big companies, and especially if you want to work abroad. At Uni you'll meet a whole range of different people, have new and exciting experiences, and be exposed to opportunities you will never get working in a public sector job. It isn't just about the studying - it's everything else that comes with it. People used to say to me that university years are the best years of your life, and I always thought of it as a load of guff. They are right though - and you're only young once! You can always go and work for a local authority, or a services company, academy group, etc., once you graduate. My advice, to sum up: if your heart is set on it, take the gap year and work, but make 100% sure you go to Uni if you can. It will change your life! Also - network. Even if you ignore what I've said above, Uni is only half of the job, building up a strong network of friends and contacts is important. Twitter, blogging, events, etc. played just as much of a part of me working at Microsoft as my time at university.

You can use FIM 2010 (and the OLSync management agent) to automatically provision users into Live@edu; for a bit of added work you could also set up PCNS and sync passwords from your AD as well - resulting in your users have a single set of credentials to manage (and a single place to manage them from, too!). In fact, if you really wanted to pull out the stops you could also use FIM to build a self-service password reset portal for your users, and then you can practically write off ever having to reset a user's password manually ever again! (Obviously, that's with my "optimist hat" on! ) SSO is a really difficult thing to define properly. Most of the time customers just want what I would term as "CSO" (consistent sign-on), rather than a seamless experience. With Live@edu you can achieve this using the FIM+OLSync+PCNS model for CSO, and you can build a form of SSO if you want to integrate Live@edu into a web portal that you might already have (i.e. users sign into that portal, and are automatically auth'd into Live@edu). With Office 365 for education you have better choices as you can go for federation, but with a significant number of different devices and user scenarios to consider it's worth spending some time to figure out exactly which scenarios you're going to support rather than trying to support everything. Hope that helps!

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This is expected behaviour if, when setting up OLSync, you picked the option for an alreading existing Exchange installation (rather than just AD only). If you're not looking to do any kind of shared address space, and just want every user in your AD to have a mailbox, then I'd advise re-installing OLsync picking the AD only option during setup.

No charges for students or staff to access SharePoint Online with the Office Web Apps See: New Lower Prices For Office 365 - UK Live@edu Blog - Site Home - MSDN Blogs

Throttling is normal - hence why you shouldn't run big cmds like that; try and break them down. Not sure why OWA shows US English, might take some time to update / be a bug. But if creating a new mail shows English UK then you're good to go!

The great thing about PowerShell is that it is quite easy to pick up, and for the most part is quite logical; common sense! You can modify the code from earlier in the thread: To be: Get-Mailbox –Resultsize unlimited | Set-MailboxRegionalConfiguration –Language en-GB –TimeZone "GMT Standard Time" | set-mailboxspellingconfiguration -dictionaryLanguage EnglishUnitedKingdom This would set all mailboxes to be in the English UK localisation, with GMT as the standard time zone and English UK as the dictionary language (for spelling, etc.). I would run this command only once the first time you create the bulk of your users. For subsequent runs I would write a script that only runs this against mailboxes that haven't already been configured this way - it's a more efficient way of doing it.

The script to set dictionary language is: set-mailboxspellingconfiguration -Identity -dictionaryLanguage EnglishUnitedKingdom

You can do this using transport rules. Organization-Wide Rules Hope that helps!

Refer back to the official Office 365 blog for information, and sign up for the newsletter: https://www.microsoft.com/liveatedu/newsletter-sign-up.html. As above. This is going to depend on what you're using SharePoint for, but broadly speaking it's certainly a possibility.

Exactly - by all means pore through it for an insight into roughly how the transition will look, but don't treat it as gospel until the official guidance is published.

Technology Adoption Program - typically Microsoft works with a selection of customers to test products or processes like the Live@edu to Office 365 for education transition. Feedback from a TAP is then used to improve whatever thing it was set up for.

For these types of questions you're better off dropping me a mail.

All good points - but with respect to the roadmap for SkyDrive and Windows 8 I know you'll understand when I say that I can't comment at the moment. SharePoint Online is replacing the SkyDrive functionality of Live@edu in Office 365 for education - while SkyDrive doesn't go away as a service (it's a free consumer service, after all), it isn't part of Office 365.

The IMAP tool will only allow you to migrate mail items - nothing else. You can achieve password syncing in Live@edu using PCNS with FIM 2010. Password syncing isn't part of Office 365 though - in order to get a single identity (and single sign-on), you'll need to look at federation using something like AD FS or Shibboleth.

Yes - DirSync is supported in Office 365. Existing Live@edu customers will be able to use it once they've transitioned to Office 365 for education.