OVS-ES vs Microsoft 365 E3
Hello, We're taking the opportunity during these strange times to review our licensing agreements and decide whether we would be better off changing things around. However, I'm having trouble understanding exactly what is included in the Microsoft 365 E3 package. The details state that it includes Windows 10 and Server CALs, but does that mean that we could safely cancel our existing OVS-ES agreement and switch to licensing directly from Microsoft? In doing so, we would gain lots of management capabilities using InTune (and Endpoint Manager), but the cost would be so high that it will only work if we can offset it against not renewing our OVS-ES agreement. We already have Office 365 ProPlus included with our Office 365 A1 package, and recently switched to licensing Office using the shared computer activation feature, thereby foregoing our entitlement to Office 2019 ProPlus from the OVS-ES agreement. (There's a strange link here anyway.. I feel like we only get O365 ProPlus installation rights through O365 because of the OVS-ES agreement, though we would keep this benefit if switching to M365 E3 anyway so this seems elementary to me.) Why is MS Licensing so convoluted?! (Probably out of necessity, I know.. just makes it hard to properly compare options!)Power Bi Reports - Turn off "See Records"
I posted this over in the Power users community, but it is Edu related. So I'm a teacher, and I use Power Bi to organize my student data (assessments, peer assessments) and give personalized feedback back to my students. Because of the licensing changes, the only way I can share my report(s) with my 200+ students is through a public link, which means everything has to be recoded and anonymized according to FERPA laws. No problem, I figured that out......except for the "See Records" option. I can't share my feedback data with my students because clicking See Records reveals student identity info, which is a big No-No in education. I need to be able to turn off "See Records".
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. BradNew: SharePoint templates for Education
New SharePoint site templates for schools and universities are now available via the https://lookbook.microsoft.com/. Three templates are provided, designed with a specific scope and audience for our Education customers: School home page Staff home page Class home page Learn more: https://aka.ms/BLOG_SPEducationSites
