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Live@Edu Criteria:

 Colleges should be offering graduate degree and/or post graduate degree courses e.g. B.Sc, BCA, BBA, B.Tech, B.E,
M.Sc., MCA, MBA, M.Tech, M.E. etc.

 Currently Live@Edu is not applicable to high-schools having only 10+2 classes (I too don't know the reasons.  )

 There should be more than 550 students in the college/department.

Live@Edu Deployment Prerequisites:

 You should be able to at least understand the terms like IP Address, Domain, URL, Control Panel, DNS Record, E-
Mail Server, MX Records, Web Space etc.

 The college should have its own website. We require only the domain name (later during configuration), no web-space
is required.

 If the college has no web site, or if the management is hesitating to provide you the access to the control panel or even
worse, if the college already has an email solution for its students, you can still approach and try to convince the
college management to buy a new domain name for the deployment of Live@Edu which would mere cost less than Rs.
500/-. This new domain should be approved by your college authority for its genuineness through  a valid letter (which
you need to submit as proof).

 You should have access to the website control panel or at least to the college server/network administrator who has
access to the website control panel.

Live@Edu Configuration Prerequisites:

After you are done with all these and ready to start, follow the steps below:

1. Log on to Windows Live Admin Centre

2. Sign-In with your Student Partners ID.

3. After you have logged in, click on the Add Domain button

4. Enter the domain name in the textbox provided e.g. mycollege.ac.in and choose Set up Windows Live Hotmail for my domain

5.  Then accept the agreement and proceed to the configuration settings page.

6.  You shall see something like this, this is just an example, your information may vary:

You need to prove ownership of this domain by creating an MX record or a CNAME record. Use the settings below.

Mail setup (required)

To set up mail and prove ownership of this domain, you must create an MX record through your domain registrar. Use the
following settings:

 DNS record type: MX

 Host: mycollege.ac.in
 MX server: 609640938.pamx1.hotmail.com
  TTL: 3600 or 1 hour
 Priority: 10 (or High priority)

 7. Then, log on to to your college domain control panel, and create a new MX record according to the details. If you don't know
what all these mean, dont panic, just relax, take a print out of this info and ask your server/network administrator to do this for
you.

8. After you have completed Step 7, wait for 12-16 hours (or maybe 1 day), for the DNS server to reflect the recent changes.

9.  Then again logon to Windows Live Admin Centre and if everything is alright, you shall see some thing like this:

Your domains
Click on the name of the domain you want to manage. Click the Add domain button to sign up another domain.

Domain name Accounts Membership Status

mycollege.ac.in 0 open Active 
 10. Voila, now everything is perfectly fine. Now check if the membership column of your domain is Open or Closed. We have to
make it closed. So to do that, click on your domain mycollege.ac.in. On the left hand side vertical menu, click on Open
Membership then click on Settings. And finally click on the button saying Turn open membership off

11. Then lets move on to Co-Branding of Live@Edu and your College. Click in the link saying Co-Branding then click on the
link saying Sign-in Page. And then upload a logo of your college with the following specifications:

File type: JPG

Max. height (pixels): 225
Max. width (pixels): 130 

There are other co-branding options available, take your own time to play with them and know what they have to offer.

12. Finally its the time to add accounts to the domain.  For this you can take up attendance sheets of all your departments of your
college and create a CSV file, for bulk account creation, in the following format:

ActionMembername Password ResetPasswordPersonal2_CS.Name.First

firstname.lastname@mycollege.ac.i
Add live@edu_password true FirstName
n
Add the email ids of all the students one-by-one of your college in the format <firstname>.<lastname>@mycollege.ac.in under
the Membername

Provide a custom common password to all the email accounts.

Add the corrensponding First Name of the student to the field below Personal2_CS.Name.First and Last Name to the field
below  Personal2_CS.Name.Last

Rest keep everything as it is.

13. Then download the Live Admin Center SDK. After your download completes, extract the archive to a folder and launch
theManageDomain.exe generally located at 
archive_extraction_folder\LiveAdmin\win32app\ManageDomains.exe

 14. Provide your username/password for Windows Live Admin Centre and sign-in. After you successfull sign-in Import the CSV
you just created from the left hand side menu and choose your CSV file. That's it. Depending upon the length of your CSV file
and your internet connection, you shall be able to upload all the contents in few minutes.

15. Well your activity doesn't end here.  . You need to campaign and make an appeal to all the students in your college to log
in to their new created email ids at least once. At the first time they will be asked to change their password and enter necessary
personal details. Once they do that, their ID is now active. You need to make sure that all the ids are active.

 16. Then finally login to the Windows Live Admin Centre and take a screen shot of the home page (after you have logged in).
Submit this screen-shot  as your activity proof and with other necessary and relevant details.

{reference  from Nishant.dp post..}

I hope u get every detail from this post that how to implement Live@Edu.

Avinash Kumar Singh

Master of Computer Application "If You Think You Can Then You Can" Think NEW make CHANGE

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