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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?
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?
Thanx for the info, you got a better response on your ticket, than the ticket I opened with MS. The reply I got was wait until the tile is finished setting up and you'll see what is does...
In my app launcher the tile is still setting up. I disabled it for the rest of my users and I'll wait till there is more info available. Using classroom of teams university wide isn't planned yet anyway.
Wow, how nice - it's like they got you a lovely surprise gift! ;)
- We found that if you removed the SDS license and put it back the user ends up with a working Classroom tile. We removed all the licenses by Powershell and that got rid of the tiles. We have no plans to use Classroom or SDS as we are standardized on Instructure Canvas for LMS.
We got a call back on the ticket confirming the tile appearing was a bug and they are working to resolve that
Good and fair questions!
Now we are seeing the icon changing from the old Classroom leaf to some sort of person at a chalkboard icon so that's even more weird.
- And now I have a working Classroom tile in my app launcher. I understand the pushing the SDS license was intentional but having this application enable can't be intended.
