Hi everyone,

We've been hard at work on the feedback you have been giving us on the Microsoft Live Services Plug-in For Moodle.  Thanks for your interest and insight into how you're using this code in your Moodle and Live@Edu deployments. 

 

Today we are releasing our August Update to the Microsoft Live Services Plug-in For Moodle.  To get the update, please click on 'Try It' in the project page to download the latest ZIP file.

 

In this update we are addressing the following:

 

1. Updated Documentation.  We have updated the documentation in our plug-in to more clearly explain the details around provisioning Outlook Live “impersonation” accounts.  This should help those of you using the Moodle plug-in with the Outlook Live service.  Also, we added a new document that focuses on troubleshooting tips and steps, based on your feedback.  We hope this will help you deploy the plug-in with Outlook Live quickly and easily.

 

2. Outlook Live Configuration Bug.  If you were trying to use the Microsoft Outlook Live service within your Moodle installation you may have run into a problem where Outlook Live email and calendar were not showing up even when everything was configured properly in the settings page.  You would have always seen links to the Hotmail email and calendar services.  A fix has been made that will correct this problem and is now included in the latest release which you can download from the project page.
 
To update an existing installation simply extract the files in the zip file and overwrite the existing files with the new files.  Keep in mind if you have made any changes to the Microsoft Live Services Plug-in source code on your own, you will need to re-apply your changes.

 

3. New Troubleshooting Guide.  We have compiled a list of troubleshooting tips to help you get the Moodle plug-in working with your deployment, and are releasing that on the project site along with the updated documentation.  We will continue to add to this Troubleshooting Guide as we get more feedback and tips from you, so please feel free to send us your comments, either on this site directly, or via email to moodle-at-microsoft-dot-com.

 

4. Versions.txt file.  We added a file to the ZIP file distribution that lists the various versions we have released so far.  So, if you download the latest ZIP file, and you have a previous version on your server or development machine, you can quickly and easily glance at that file to see what changed.  We hope this 'versions.txt' file will help you stay up to date with what we are changing in the plug-in.

 

Thanks for your interest in this project.

Kosar

Microsoft Education Labs