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Correct, if you verify by MX then the record you get is a dummy; you'll need to set a different one for actual mail flow. You'll need to know (or reset to something you know, which is better IMHO) every username and password that you want to migrate. It's unlikely that you'll have admin access to every mailbox so while that's an option in situations where you have total control, in this case it's not going to be an option. You will end up with a list of source mailboxes, usernames and passwords, and a corresponding list of target mailboxes, etc. You need to combine that into a CSV file (I think I sent you the link already?) in order to facilitate the migration. The point about the head not giving you his password is irrelevant, you don't need it if you can reset it. *puts best practice hat on* You should never know the legitimate passwords for your users, ever. Reset them all to something temporary and encourage them to reset after the migration has completed.

How will you know if you avoid it? SharePoint Online in the new Office 365 is actually a breath of fresh air compared with some of the more enterprise-centric themes of previous iterations.

http://microsoft.com/uk/office365edu

Just create Shared Mailboxes in Exchange Online, and give users permission to access those mailboxes. Create and use shared mailboxes - office365 suite - Office.com

CloudMigrator365 (CloudMigrator365 | CloudMigrator365 – the best the best way to migrate email, contacts, calendars, public folders and tasks to Microsoft Office 365 or Exchange) is another good company that I think can do what you need.

Have a look at IT Academy - great training resource. Microsoft IT Academy

Where did you request it from? Your reseller? Are you going through academic verification, or?

Office 365 is hosted in DCs around the world, it has nothing to do with which flavour you're on. Instead, your tenant will be primarily homed in the nearest DC pair, which for UK customers is the EU pair in Dublin and Amsterdam. Where they're physically located is a bit of a red herring when it comes to data privacy and security though - it's about more than that. Microsoft's IL-2 accredited by the government, is signed up to EU Safe Harbor and a bunch of other attestations to ensure your data is safe and secure wherever it's held. You might want to check out the Office 365 Trust Center to learn more about how Microsoft secures its cloud: Office 365 Trust Center Also, the Global Foundation Services team - the organisation that runs Microsoft's DCs: Microsoft Data Centers Also, the PR around the IL-2 accreditation: Microsoft Office 365 Receives G-Cloud IL2 Accreditation from Cabinet Office for Use Across the UK Public Sector - Microsoft UK Government Blog - Site Home - MSDN Blogs Hope that helps!

I don't have any case studies to hand, but this might be interesting to read: Reaction to iPads at Shireland Collegiate Academy - Microsoft UK Schools blog - Site Home - MSDN Blogs

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Good feedback, excellent point; hopefully people who really want to will still join us - finding a suitable time can be tough sometimes. Not everyone in every stage of education, or part of the country, is off at the same time, and that's just the external considerations. This won't be the only opportunity to ask questions, and while we'll try and schedule these events a bit more conveniently in future, the Twitter accounts are there all the time, you can ask questions anytime!

For those interested in finding out more, and still have questions, we're holding a Twitter Q&A this Thursday at 1200 GMT: Microsoft UK Education Cloud Blog - Learn About Office 365 Education Feel free to watch, or join in.

If you add the new domain as a second address users will not be able to send from it, only receive; you can only send from your primary SMTP. You'd need to switch the new domain in as the primary SMTP so users use it as their main address, and leave the old one as an alias. UPN and primary SMTP don't have to match, but it makes it easier to say to people that their username is their email address.

Exactly this. You can rename your users UPN (i.e. their username) and primary SMTP to reflect the new domain, and leave the old domain as another SMTP address for those users to receive mail on. Edit: You don't have to rename the UPN if you don't want to, or if you want to stagger the change. Depends how confusing (or not) you want it to be for your users. Usually the UPN and primary SMTP address match, but you could update their email address to the new domain first, leaving their username the same and then change their username later on. Or just do it all at once.

Surely you're not serious? Regardless of the technology, you should never be able to know the password of a user, or be able to reveal it to them.

Great to hear it's been a success! Will you be taking up Student Advantage when it becomes available? (Microsoft UK Education Cloud Blog - Learn About Office 365 Education)

Exchange Online, Lync Online and SharePoint Online including the Office Web Apps are free for staff and students. Qualifying institutions can also licence students for the full Office 365 ProPlus component. Happy to talk about your concerns if you want. I think Microsoft's pretty transparent about its model for Office 365 in terms of what's free and what's not. In various states Live@edu and Office 365 have been around about 8 years now, free to education. I recently posted up about how it just got more powerful with the Student Advantage announcement as well. If you have any questions, like I say, happy to chat.

How so? I'd love to understand why you feel this way - SkyDrive Pro gives users 25GB free space... they can upload files, share them, sync them to the desktop, create, edit and collaborate with the Web Apps. It's different to consumer SkyDrive, granted, but useless? To the point of the original questions, RT cannot be domain joined so the question of managing these devices by GPO for SkyDrive Pro is slightly irrelevant. Once a user configures the synchronisation they shouldn't need to sign in again, unless their credentials change. You can roll out SkyDrive Pro by putting a tick in the box for the SharePoint Online licence in Office 365. It's not possible (well, not supported/easy) to "warm up" SkyDrive Pro for users - it's provisioned on first logon.

Perhaps more relevant to this audience: A Day in the Life: Student A Day in the Life: Teacher

Yes. Hmm.. possibly. It's not really how it's designed to work. You can move the folder to SharePoint Online and users can sync it to their PC and access it via a browser, etc. but SharePoint Online isn't necessarily designed with this scenario in mind.

You speak to me. Any domain can be used, but reserved TLDs are automatically approved (.sch.uk, .ac.uk, etc.). Any others require a bit of a manual tickle to get approved, normally support reach out and request info on your school before approving. Worst case, it lands on my desk to approve.

If you're concerned about the past, drop me a PM and we can talk. Things have moved on a bit in the last few years, not just licensing wise but technology wise. I know you're not the biggest Microsoft fan in the world, but I'm always happy to have an honest and frank discussion about your concerns if you want.

I've been doing this job over 3 years. This is the busiest I've been, outside of BETT. Still love it, every single day.

It's not free, it's "no additional cost"... There is a requirement to licence your faculty/staff on your OVS-ES, or EES VL agreements in order to unlock this benefit.

Just ask yourself: do you licence Office for all your staff via your volume licence agreement? If so, you probably qualify for Student Advantage. Office 365 ProPlus is delivered and enabled by Office 365. As several others have pointed out, you don't have to use any of the other workloads in order to benefit from this announcement. Yes, you have to sign up if you've not used it before, and yes it would be awesome if you'd consider using the other workloads as well, but if you just want to sign up to get Office 365 ProPlus for your students then that's also fine. Signing up takes a few minutes of your time, and a bit of work with your licensing reseller to acquire the licences. In the coming weeks I'll put some blog posts up that step through the process to make it as simple as possible. If you don't want to pass on this (quite frankly awesome, in my opinion) benefit to your students you don't have to, but think of it the other way round: why wouldn't you want your students to benefit from having the latest version of Office to use on their devices? If you're paying for your staff to have Office anyway surely it's a no-brainer? Feedback about this, like anything, is important, would love to know your thoughts.