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Re: Finally considering the support of Office 365 for our students
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Osborne, Bruce W (Network Services)
Thu Sep 1 08:00:58 2016
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Date: Thu, 1 Sep 2016 11:38:09 +0000
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From: "Osborne, Bruce W (Network Services)" <bosborne@LIBERTY.EDU>
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You *do* realize Microsoft offers Office 365 free for students, right?
See https://products.office.com/en-us/student/office-in-education
Bruce Osborne
Wireless Engineer
IT Network Operations - Wireless
(434) 592-4229
LIBERTY UNIVERSITY
Training Champions for Christ since 1971
-----Original Message-----
From: Mike Malsed [mailto:mike.malsed@CLAREMONTMCKENNA.EDU]
Sent: Wednesday, August 31, 2016 11:20 AM
Subject: Re: Finally considering the support of Office 365 for our students
We've always supported any Office on student computers - in the past couple of years we've begun paying for their Office 365, but even before that, we supported it because it's in line with my mission to support their academic computing, and since Office is the only thing that's FULLY compatible with Office (Work and OO are compatible, but not FULLY compatible - Save As, blah blah blah) we've always supported students in using Office.
Tracking: If you do not purchase it for them, you don't need to track it. Track issues as you typically would. :) Where to get it: We've pointed them toward Amazon - it tends to have better deals on there. The only three products we push hard are Word, Excel and PowerPoint. Others are cool, especially OneNote (which is free and multi-platform, and have you seen the new math "tutorial" thing? Cool!!!) but not really necessary.
License validation: it's now a subscription model but if you don't buy it for them, it's their responsibility.
If you do purchase it for them, it's based on an account model. We provision the accounts that will be valid for the year, and "deprovision" those who have graduated - and it's by email so if you provide it, and their email goes away, deprovision those old provisions and newly provision the new. It typically takes our admin a couple of days to get everything set up (really, it's just because he keeps getting waylaid while doing it).
There is an Outlook client for both PC and Mac, but it depends on if you have it in your license. i don't think we have Mac Outlook in ours, kinda deliberately, because it sux. You can put what you have available on the landing page - so what I see, as staff, is different from what the students see, as students, because we have them provisioned differently.
Cheers!
Mike
On Tue, 30 Aug 2016 13:53:33 -0500, Wendy Worlund <wendy.worlund@UAH.EDU> wrote:
>We're thinking of finally admitting that Office365 is available to our
>students:)
>
>I'd love to hear any feedback/advice you guys have. We're a Google Apps
>for Education school (students, staff, and faculty on the same domain).
>We don't have all users on Active Directory, yet. Our campus agreement
>for Microsoft Office Pro is for university-owned computers. Below is my
>scratch-pad list of questions/concerns:
>
>
> -
>
> What should we tell the students?
> -
>
> What tracking or anything is on us to do?
> -
>
> Should they start at
> https://products.office.com/en-us/student/office-in-education and
> expect the software suite to only include what’s in the home/student
> version (https://products.office.com/en-us/home-and-student)? We want
> to tell users what it includes.
> -
>
> How does the ongoing license validation work?
> -
>
> What authentication happens after the initial requirement of the
> UAH email login and password?
> -
>
> We assume license validation would be ongoing somehow.
> -
>
> We're concerned about users who lose access to their UAH email
> account. What’s the typical migration path? What happens when they
> lose their UAH email account?
> -
>
> Is it true that no Outlook client is included for Mac or PC?
>
>
>Thanks in advance,
>
>Wendy Worlund
>Manager of Client Services
>UAH - Office of Information Technology
>VBH C14
>(256) 824-2616
>wendy.worlund@uah.edu
>
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