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School Data Sync (Plan 1) service plan what is it?
Following up from my earlier post, Microsoft support says they did this on purpose - it's here to stay. School Data Sync (Plan 1) is included in the Office 365 Education licensing SKUs as of today. (Thanks for the heads up, Microsoft!!)
There is little documentation from an admin perspective on this, and I personally have lots of questions. But, I'll include some reference links that I've read so far:
https://blogs.office.com/2016/08/18/back-to-school-with-microsoft-classroom-and-school-data-sync/
https://blogs.office.com/2017/01/23/announcing-school-data-sync-general-availability/
https://support.office.com/en-us/article/Get-started-with-Microsoft-Classroom-dd5d064f-6c22-41e0-b721-9d359857d037
https://support.office.com/en-us/article/Overview-of-School-Data-Sync-f3d1147b-4ade-4905-8518-508e729f2e91?ui=en-US&rs=en-US&ad=US
https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/help/4022583/microsoft-classroom-preview-features-are-moving-to-microsoft-teams
Further questions I now have:
- Is the Classroom feature they just deployed the OLD, soon-to-be-deprecated verson of Classroom or the new Teams integrated Classroom?
- If this is the new Teams integrated Classroom, why the heck is it not dependant on the tenant level Teams setting which disables Teams?
We got the same thing in our tenant this morning. I've opened a case with Microsoft (in the hopes that it is a mistake that they will fix), and will post back if I hear any useful information. For what it is worth, the Office 365 Roadmap added these features to their "In Development" section within the last week - which is what leads me to believe these were deployed accidentally.
The tile icon is for Microsoft Classroom which I understood was being discontinued after the Preview ended?
We never used Classroom or SDS so I was suprised to see it in my app launcher this morning.
- And to add to that a bit... I found an article that said you could disable SDS and Classroom globally at sds.microsoft.com but our global admins cannot login there because they don't have a Classroom license. Catch-22.