365 A3 for Faculty - cannot upgrade to Windows 10 edu (ent)
We recently purchased Microsoft 365 A3 for Faculty, we were assured that for educations users there was an upgrade path from home to Windows 10 Edu (comes with the 365 A3 for Faculty) . We have not been able to upgrade. Things we have tried: MDM, setting up MDM in intune, doesn't work with a rest on the home ed, or with a glpk on pro connecting user via azure (add work or school account) installing 10 pro and signing in with the domain account assigned the licence many command line product key tricks changing our domain and users to ***.onmicrosoft.com installing education and Enterprise editions installing the office apps setting up the education store to auto switch Contacting 365 support, activation support, support through our partner. Nothing we (or our partner) have done gets us closer (we have been working on this since Nov 30th). Any suggestions are greatly appreciated. Brad
Porn and Edge
Edge circumvents local DNS. I put 1.1.1.3 and 1.0.0.3 in the local network interfaces and the router and the cablemodem. Chrome and Firefox won't let the 3rd graders surf porn, but Edge empowers 3rd graders to surf porn! What is the real purpose of this? Limited choices in Edge config for private dns i.e. 1.1.1.1 (no filter) is allowed but 1.1.1.3 (no porn/malware) is not allowed (as of last night). Sure is suspicious to those of us who argue against crimeware and child exploitation... and who are trying to protect the children (et al).MICROSOFT ENABLING REMOTE LEARNING COMMUNITY
For global EDU institutions looking to explore this space with O365 and MS Team Today we're announcing the Microsoft Enabling Remote Learning Community, a community for educational institutions around the world looking at remote learning programs with M365 and Teams. Share resources, get your questions answered and connect with Microsoft engineers about your remote learning needs. Learn more and sign up at https://aka.ms/JoinRemoteLearningCommunity
Visual Studio Code on school computers and security
At my school, our teaching staff wants to move from Atom to Visual Studio Code on our lab computers (running MacOS). Our SysAdmin is telling me that we aren't allowed to install VSCode because of security policies. Their concern is that VSCode allows remote code execution (through extensions). I cannot find much information online in respect to security concerns with VSCode. How are other schools doing it? Are there ways to mitigate those security issues? Or are those security concerns mistaken? If you use VSCode at your school, I would love to hear more about this !How to share/notify of a new Delve blog post
We are starting to experiment with the Delve blog function for internal school communications. But we can't figure out how to share out the new posts seamlessly. When we click the Share email icon, it tries to open up the mail app, but almost nobody uses that. They use OWA in the browser. Most haven't even configured the mail client. Is there any way to seamlessly share out the link? What about a subscription option for users to get it to notify them within O365 when the browser is open?Using Teams as Admin Hub in Schools
I don't know if my concern is addressed anywhere. If it is, please point me to it. I am looking to propose Ms Teams as Admin hub in our school, however, there are a few areas of concern. One of them being security. Is it advisable to store high risk documents such as exams in Teams? What I envisage is having a Team per subject for admin/collaboration purposes between staff members. The assessment/exam would be stored in Teams, together with the memorandum/marking guidelines and the moderation of these, but if this can be accessed from any device, such as phone, tablet, laptop, which can be anywhere and at risk of being accessed by a family member - what are the implications and how does one address this concern? Currently, we are trying this out with a few individual staff members and it is working brilliantly. In the team we create a channel per assessment and keep everything together. The tabs can be used to display prominent documents. However, I am a but apprehensive to present this as a solution to the Principal because I know her first concern will be the security. One could implement a password policy on the document level but has anyone perhaps another solution or thought on this topic?Microsoft 365 A1 for devices for students
I am looking to moving the students to Microsoft Surface SE laptops and to get Microsoft 365 A1 for devices for students for them. I bought one device and one of these licenses for testing purposes and assigned the license to the device group for the device, but it doesn't seem to work. The MS Office apps all say viewer since the student account is an M365 A1 but this license is supposed to provide not only the Intune support but the licensing for office. What needs to be done or configured for it to work with the device???Licensing Classroom VS Teams
Just looking for a little guidance here. Since its summer break and teacher and students are not on the system for the most part, I'm thinking about turning the licensing for classroom, so when they return; they do not start using classroom, but rather are steered to use teams. Would I cause with teams if I do this? Or is there another suggested course of action I should be taking?
