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tobif
Apr 02, 2020Copper Contributor
Help migrating or merging Office 365 Business to Education
We are both a charity and a college and I originally setup our Office 365 account as a nonprofit account and we are using Office 365 Nonprofit Business Premium licences as we had no need at the time ...
tobif
May 13, 2020Copper Contributor
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!
ChrisB1980
May 14, 2020Copper Contributor
tobif I'm grateful for the reply even if there are no easy solutions. Nice to know we are in the same boat!
Would you use a third party to do the eventual (inevitable?) transfer? It seems like quite a big challenge once you have Teams chats and wikis, Stream videos etc.
I think we will set up the tenant to be able to review the additional services that the Education version brings, and see how having two tenants affects workflow. But from everything I have read, it is best to avoid multiple tenants.
Thanks again.