Dirsync password expiration is something we see crop up – especially in test Office 365 environments.  Whilst the system as a whole will not be affected it will be difficult to migrate users and ensure data is correctly populated in the cloud.  Signals of this problem are evident, as per the screenshots below.  This is from the Dirsync server:

In the Microsoft Online Portal this problem is fairly evident when you login as an administrator:

If the password has changed (or needs changing, re-run Dirsync setup on the Dirsync server and re-enter user credentials.

We’ve updated our migration tool Ascend to detect this problem automatically, details to follow.  You could also change the user password not to expire, as would usually be set for on-premise service account passwords.

Microsoft has announced another package, this time aimed at University students. For $80 students are provided the whole suite for four years, with a copy of Office 2013 for PC or 2011 for Mac.

Good value when you consider it also includes 60 minutes of Skype calls per month.

Makes sense to get many students to pay a little, rather than the occasional student pay for the full-blown suite.  It also should mean more people contributing towards the platform, providing more resource for innovation.

I wonder if Students need to register their own email domain to use it?

Yet another major initiative in the Cloud space. Office 365 University Edition