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ashmelburnian
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Mar 24, 2020
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Convert Tenant to Education

Hi all,

 

Can someone please advise if it is possible to move/convert an existing Office 365 tenant from “Business and Enterprise”, as shown below, to “Faculty and Students”?

 

 

Thanks

 

Ash

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  • Hi Ash,

    To confirm, it is not possible to convert business tenants to education tenants. Education tenants have a special sign up process whereby you have to provide eligibility

    https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/education/intune-edu-trial/set-up-office365-edu-tenant

    You would need to create a new tenant through the EDU signup process. No uservoices here (https://office365.uservoice.com/) so you could raise one if you wanted to see it, however I don't think it is in Microsoft's plans in the near future

    Hope that answers your question!

    Best, Chris
    • ashmelburnian's avatar
      ashmelburnian
      Brass Contributor
      Thanks Chris. Do you know if it is possible to easily move an entire organisation's data (Exchange, SharePoint, Teams, domains etc) from one tenant to another?
      • ChrisHoardMVP's avatar
        ChrisHoardMVP
        MVP
        Hmm, you would need to use third party tools to do that job - in the business it's called a tenant to tenant migration (cease and reprovide is another informal name). Put in tenant to tenant migration and reach out to the third parties. Due to house policy here, we can't explicitly name them.

        Best, Chris

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