There are three ways to sign up. Simply contact your Microsoft account manager, email aus-edu@microsoft.com or go sign up online.

Yes. The institution can choose one or more domains. You would have to first register domain through a chosen Internet Registration company if it's not already registered.

Yes. You’ll be able to name Windows Live Hotmail for your students and alumni (i.e. “University of XYZ Mail”). We will have a smaller logo that says “powered by Windows Live Hotmail” underneath your logo

Microsoft Live@edu is available to your institution at no additional charge; although you may decide to deploy it in conjunction with Microsoft software to manage the provisioning process.

There are three ways to get started:

1. eduExpress: a Windows-based application that is simple to use.
2. An API that lets you automatically upload student details to Windows Live Services.
3. Microsoft Identity Lifecycle Manager (ILM): available at special prices for Live@edu deployments.

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Students can keep their email accounts after they graduate, or you can provide them with alumni email accounts. If students don’t log into their accounts for 365 days, the inbox contents are deleted, but the account remains active. You can suspend and delete email accounts just as you do today.

Live@edu comes with complimentary online provisioning and deployment support, as well as 24x7 telephone support for critical issues.

Yes. Windows Live Hotmail is compatible with other platforms and browsers including Safari, Firefox and Opera.

Live@edu provides a great way to keep alumni connected to your institution by giving them a post-graduation email address featuring your domain name and branding.

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Live@edu supports open standards including: iCAL, POP, WS Federation and XML. Live@edu works with Firefox, Safari, Opera and more on PC, Mac and other platforms.

Microsoft makes provisioning and deprovisioning of accounts easy by integrating our solutions at every level. You can automatically synchronise your student directory (Microsoft Active Directory, LDAP, SunOne, Novell eDirectory, Lotus Notes, Microsoft SQL Server, Oracle and DB2) with the Microsoft Live@edu directory. You can also trigger automatic creation of Microsoft Live@edu accounts from your student registration system. It’s easy to simultaneously reset Active Directory and Microsoft Live@edu passwords and automatically populate campus directories with student email addresses. We also offer the capability to do mash-ups with Microsoft Live@edu services and access Microsoft Live@edu APIs and you can easily set up your directory for automatic synchronisation with Windows Server 2003 and Active Directory using Microsoft Identity Integration Server (MIIS) and the associated components, Windows Server Enterprise and Microsoft SQL Server.

Microsoft and its partners are committed to education through our solutions and industry programs. Through extensive industry consultation we’ve developed integrated IT platforms and solutions that are robust, flexible and meet the needs of education institutions – and we have vast experience in education deployments just like yours.

Live@edu is being tested or deployed at institutions totalling more than 5 million students. Live@edu uses the same infrastructure that already supports 310 million users worldwide.

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