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Help migrating or merging Office 365 Business to Education
tobif I have exactly the same issue!
I was hoping the business tenant could be amended to education but apparently not. MS support have advised that "If you wish you create a new tenant with Education tag, you will need to look for a 3rd party to ask them to migrate your files from this tenant to the new tenant that you are going to create".
I note you received no responses. Did you find any answers yourself? Have you been able to migrate?
ChrisB1980 I didn't find any solutions sorry. As our staff here had already started using and populating Office 365, Teams and Sharepoint with things, and as we are both a charity and a college, I decided the best thing for us at the moment was to setup another tenant (this time as an educational one) with a slightly different domain name that I purchased for us (we are companyname.co.uk and the second tenant is companyname.online) with the idea that charity staff would be on our initial tenant and all students and tutors would be on our second tenant. It will cause problems later on if we have staff members who are also tutors and as they will need to remember two separate logins but it seemed best for us. The other option was to wait until after this pandemic was over and then get all staff to stop using Office 365 for a few days while I transferred everything over which I don't think is worth doing. That was my solution anyway. Hope you find a way around it yourself!