Live@edu works with the investments you and your students have already made, including:
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Operating Systems
Live@edu is compatible with Windows, Mac and Linux machines as well as IE 5.0+ and 6+, Firefox 1.5+ and Safari 2.0 (Safari does not suport JavaScript).
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Student Directories
Your IT department can create, edit, delete and suspend email accounts just as you do today. In the last two years, we have not found a student directory we could not integrate with. Some of the directories include:
- Active Directory
- Exchange Server 5.5
- Extensible Connectivity
- IMB DB2 Universal Database
- LDAP Data Interchange Format (LDIF)
- Lotus Notes
- Novell eDirectory 8.6.2 and 8.6
- Oracle Database 8s or 9i
- SQL Server 7 or 2000
- Sun and Netscape Directory Servers
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Global Address and Distribution Lists
Universities that use Exchange for faculty and staff can store their students in Active Directory, enabling GAL lookups and distribution lists, even though the student has a Hotmail inbox. If you use other GAL or distribution list software (e.g., MailMan, etc.) you can manage your users and lists even though students have a Hotmail inbox. If facutly/staff use Exchange, they can be imported into the student’s Global Address List as well.
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Student Portals
Our single sign-on API works with existing credentials such as Active Directory Federation Services, WS Federation and SOAP API to allow universities to integrate Live@edu services, allowing students to sign in once to the portal and go directly into their Hotmail inbox . Many universities have created custom portals where a student can select their own username and password. Schools have also integrated Live@edu into the registration process, automatically creating accounts for new students.
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Custom Application Pages
Live@edu provides a complete set of APIs that allow campuses to put together custom pages for students, alumni and staff with different combinations of the applications each group uses the most.
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Campus Calendars
With iCal support, schools can allow students to subscribe to an institution's master calendar, allow institutions to send class schedules as recurring meeting invites and have accepted invitations populate Hotmail calendars, and allow faculty to send meeting invites. Students on Exchange Labs can look up free/busy status of other students.
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Email Clients
Live@edu with Hotmail can be accessed through Microsoft Outlook, using Outlook Connector, or through a POP-enabled client like Eudora or Thunderbird, as well as a POP-enabled mobile client. Students using Live@edu with Exchange Labs can access email, contacts and calendar through Outlook, Outlook Web Access, or mobile phones with Activesynch, or through a POP or IMAP client.
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Microsoft Software
Students who use Microsoft Office to complete school assignments can collaborate on these documents through Office Live Workspace and Windows Live SkyDrive. We will continue to extend the software that is supported by our Web services.
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