Microsoft Live@edu provides a simple, practical way to provide advanced online communications and collaboration for everyone in your campus community. At no additional cost to your institution, we provide: hosted email, calendars, online workspaces, mobile alerts, document sharing, instant messaging, blogs, videoconferencing, mobile access and address books, all accessible on Windows, Mac, Linux and mobile devices.
| Create a community for life.
Give your students and alumni complimentary hosted email from Microsoft Live@edu, with a custom domain name selected by your institution.
Students and staff can access Live@edu on all popular PC, Mac and Linux Web browsers. Even better, this service is delivered by Microsoft on a proven infrastructure with over 310 million users worldwide.
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| We manage the infrastructure, you manage the accounts
Students, faculty and alumni email accounts are easy to set up and administer. You provision and manage the accounts using your own domain name and you create distribution lists and email groups as you see fit. But you delegate the costly and complex part - storage and hosting - to Microsoft.
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| A complimentary service
Microsoft regularly updates Live@edu with an expanding range of services which help enable you to meet your students’ and alumni needs today and in the future.
Any way you calculate it, Live@edu adds great value. With a variety of complimentary and low-cost set-up options, you can choose the one that’s right for your institution. Your students and alumni can receive email and collaboration applications for much less than the cost of hosting your own service - and best of all, it doesn’t burden your IT staff or your budget. |
| Windows Live Hotmail
Make the most of email with a familiar user interface, like Microsoft Office Outlook- 5GB mailbox; 10MB attachments
- Branded with your institution’s name and logo and your domain name
- Add up to six URLs to your students’ Windows Live Hotmail landing page
- Advertising is suppressed for currently enrolled students of colleges and universities for Windows Live mail
- Push email via Windows Live for mobile
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| Spam and virus filtering
Accounts are protected by Microsoft’s spam and virus prevention.
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One-click control over junk and scam email
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Anti-phishing features
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Microsoft SmartScreen learns, through user feedback, how to detect spam
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Sender ID Framework confirms that the reply-to address matches the sender’s IP address and helps block spoofing
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| Calendars
Each student can have a personal calendar to share - or keep private.
- Reminders
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Tasks
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Compatible with iCal specification and Microsoft Exchange Server
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Meeting requests from Microsoft Office Outlook are automatically placed in Windows Live Calendar
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Easily set up meeting times with tutors and arrange class events
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| Windows Live Messenger
It’s easy to ask a question and get immediate feedback from an individual or a whole tutorial group.
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Real-time text chat
- Group chat with up to 15 people
- File sharing
- Full-screen video calling
- PC-to-PC voice calls
- Send SMS text through
Live Meeting*
*carrier service charge may apply |
| Microsoft Office Live Workspace
Microsoft Office Live Workspace is a place where students and faculty can store class papers or publish research findings and grant access to a selected audience to comment and edit documents.
- Store thousands of Microsoft Office documents online
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500MB storage
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Invite people to your workspace and control who can view, comment and edit your documents
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Stop manually merging versions from multiple people
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Open and save files directly from Microsoft Office Word, Excel and PowerPoint
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Synchronise contact, task and event lists with Microsoft Office Outlook
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| Windows Live Alerts
Windows Live Alerts provide a simple way to instantly notify groups, individuals or all participating members of the campus community on their mobile devices with sports and club announcements, billing notifications, class venue and schedule changes or security alerts.
- Alerts can be received via Windows Live Messenger, Live Messenger for mobile, or email
- Users choose the alerts they want to receive
- A simple way to notify everyone on campus with class venue changes, timetables, weather or security alerts
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| Mobile access
Students can access email and instant messaging on their Web-enabled mobile devices* or any POP-enabled email client.
- Access Windows Live Hotmail from almost anywhere
- Send and receive instant messages
- Browse Windows Live Spaces, and edit your own space
- Search the Web
- Push email through Windows Live for mobile
*Carriers may charge for data usage plans |
| Windows Live Spaces
Students and staff can personalise communications and blog sites with emoticons, signatures, backgrounds, fonts and layout styles to suit the topic - academic or personal.
- Add up to 500 photos a month
- Choose your own layout
- Network with friends
- Update your blog from your mobile
- Link to SkyDrive - 1GB remote storage
- Collaborate
- Create ePortfolios and online CVs
- Share with students, colleagues or potential employers
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| Student support
Microsoft offers representatives available to respond to student support queries
via the Web. Get support > http://support.live.com
IT administrator support
Microsoft Live@edu customers receive complimentary online provisioning and deployment support as well as 24x7 telephone support for critical issues. Customers with Premier Support also receive full enterpise support for Live@edu.
Hours of operation
24 hours a day, 7 days a week, 365 days a year (7/24/365)
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| Student, faculty and alumni email accounts are easy to set up and administer. You provision the accounts using your own domain name and you create distribution lists and email groups as you see fit. But you delegate the costly and time-consuming part - storage and hosting - to Microsoft.
You can store student details in Microsoft Active Directory (even though they have a Windows Live Hotmail inbox), which allows you to create distribution lists and Global Address List look-ups. |
| Deployment Option One: eduExpress- Ideal if you want to conduct a fast trial or pilot or if you have fewer users and limited technical resources
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Complimentary Windows-based desktop account provisioning application
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A user-friendly interface lets you import account information from a CSV file or enter account details individually
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Password-protected accounts are up and running in minutes
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There is no automatic directory synchronisation, so updates are manual
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| Deployment Option Two: Command Line Interface - Ideal if you want to automate account management and are comfortable with CLI scripting
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Manage accounts through a complimentary downloaded application
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Write just a few lines of code to batch export data from a student directory into a CSV file
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Upload that CSV file to the Windows Live service
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| Deployment Option Three: Microsoft Identity Lifecycle Manager 2007- Ideal if you want rich automatic directory synchronisation with student information systems or your campus directory service
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Manage accounts using Microsoft Identity Lifecycle Manager 2007
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Requires server installation and integration
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Available at a special prices for Live@edu deployments
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