Using Office 365 and Moodle or Open edX? Things just got interesting....

Office 365 has been integrated with popular educational open source software such as Moodle and Open edX. Office’s open REST APIs make it possible for teachers and students to take advantage of Office’s rich authoring capabilities to create content, submit assignments, provide feedback, and manage class schedules, all within a single sign-on (SSO) experience enabled by Azure Active Directory.



Office 365 now offers seamless integration with educational open source software:

Allow Email through Office 365 Quarantine

How to stop Office 365 Blocking email from a specific sender

1. Visit the Office 365 end user quarantine: https://admin.protection.outlook.com/quarantine
2. Find the specific message(s) you wish to release.
3. Click the small envelope icon.
4. Click "release message(s) and report as not junk..."

The message will now be released to your inbox.  When it arrives:

5. Right click the email and find the junk options
6. Select "never Block Sender" and or "never block senders domain"

All done.

End User Office 365 Quarantine URL

Looking for the Office 365 quarantine URL?

https://admin.protection.outlook.com/quarantine

If you have problems accessing the website try the following:

> Log into your Office 365 account before clicking the link
> Try using a different browser, IE seems stable, but I have had issues with Google Chrome

Windows 10 on its way!

According to Paul Thurrott, of Thurrott.com, Windows 10 is due to reach RTM this week.  Which is good news for the suggested late July release date.

https://www.thurrott.com/windows/windows-10/4481/windows-10-rtm-is-reportedly-imminent

What does RTM mean?
https://social.technet.microsoft.com/Forums/windows/en-US/47323f15-c0e1-4b26-bb24-9fb84ffd7d75/what-do-the-letters-rtm-means-as-they-are-used-like-windows-me-rtm-cd-or-windows-7-rtm?forum=w7itproinstall

Announcing preview of new Skype for Business services in Office 365

Announcing preview of new Skype for Business services in Office 365: When Microsoft launched Skype for Business earlier this year, we said we’d deliver new Skype for Business voice and meetings capabilities in Office 365 that will enhance the existing Skype for Business experience, and allow us to offer a complete, enterprise-grade communications solution at global scale as part of Office 365. We’re pleased to announce technical previews starting today: Skype Meeting Broadcast, PSTN Conferencing and Cloud PBX with PSTN Calling.

Office 365 with RDS (Remote Desktop Services)

If you are running an RDS environment for remote application delivery or remote desktop sessions, and you are looking to deploy Office 365 with the full Office suite, you may be confused regarding the correct licensing path.

To cut to the chase, The Office 365 Business suites, are not for you.

With Office 365 licensing, to use Office in RDS it must support Shared Activation. 

As you can see below, only the E3 and E4 plans support Shared Activation: 

Taken from: https://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/office-applications-service-description.aspx

In Summary 

To use Office 365 in an RDS environment, you need to purchase E3 or E4 licenses for these specific users.

Remember, only the RDS users need to have Enterprise licenses.  The new Office 365 plans allow you to mix and match between license plans.  So you can still buy Business plan licenses for non-RDS users.

Office 2016 Preview—update

Office 2016 Preview—update: When Microsoft launched the Office 2016 Preview in early May, they said that they would share regular updates on new features as they became available. Here’s a quick update on what has been delivered in the last month.